One suggestion for the Group Read

[David Morris]

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On Saturday, January 23, 2016, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wise words by Ish. The last few group reads have seen me try to keep
> up early on but inevitably there comes a time when work or life is
> pressing and I delete a bunch of posts unread. From there comes the
> creeping feeling that anything I might add will be redundant as it was
> probably hashed out in those deleted emails, and then there's already
> a bunch more arriving, and it gets too much to bother...
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > Thanks Ish. Experience and wisdom and a fine argument, so nicely written.
> > I can be a  major offender and have talked like I will be, so I will try
> not
> > to be. I guess I was feeling neglected since about no one says anything
> > about these story and
> > Lot 49 bits, so I am projecting my continued soloing. (OK, whining, but I
> > stopped now. No one else is
> > reading Lot 49 and the stories right now and I am focusing on stuff ya
> gotta
> > know cold--I didn't--or look up.
> > Won't be that way with GR Group Read)
> >
> > I have a lot of notes for GR already so I will prioritize and won/t,
> > as I wrote, try to get
> > every little thought on the record as I indicated.
> >
> > Smart commentary means judicious triage of comments I now accept as
> better.
> >
> >  I will send my posts around separated in time during the day, rather
> than
> > most in the early morning as I do now.
> >
> > (At the moment, I save most that I write and send the next morning. I
> need
> > something to make me jump out of bed.)
> >
> > I'm just impatient today, with the snow.
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 3:41 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>
> >>  You open your email and find you have 200 emails on day one and this
> >> keeps up for a week, then tapers a bit, explodes again and again, then
> >> it thins to near silence and the group read fails.
> >>
> >> This is not what happened way back in the beginning or for a decade or
> >> more as folks worked through book after book with creative generosity,
> >> and, with only the occasion flame war or heavy duty fight,  did some
> >> remarkable reads,  but it is what happened to several more recent
> >> attempts, despite herculean efforts by one or two individuals to keep
> >> the ball bouncing.
> >>
> >> There is so much stuff we can all toss into the discussion daily. And
> >> that's fun and beautiful and who needs any rules or regulations. This
> >> is, as advertised, a fabulous orgy.
> >>
> >> But, my grama's giant but, but can we maybe keep the volume down in
> >> the first few sections just because we will lose too many people if we
> >> stuff them with 300 a day.
> >>
> >> Not suggesting any limits or rules or editing or monitoring but just
> >> that we all recognize that if we flood the space early we may not have
> >> any human voices left to awaken to when the mermaids arrive to waft us
> >> all to shore.
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> >
> >
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