--- In [email protected], "Irene Coggi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to start a ring too but I'm afraid it would get stalled. It > would be much easier if we could make a stallers list avaliable to any book > crossers so that anyone might know eho to accept in the ring and who not. > Irene
While it is very frustrating when a bookring stalls, it's always going to be a possibility, no matter how careful you are up front. As for lists of likely stallers, you can search the bookring forum for the names of the people who've asked to be on your bookring, to see if they've been unresponsive to "where are you/where's my book" posts in the past; you can sort their bookshelves by journaler count and see how they've handled previous bookrings; you can post the proposed participant list in the bookring forum yourself so that other BCers can see it and may be able to warn you if they've had problems with any of the names on the list. If you find anyone whose bookring behavior isn't what you'd like to see, you can ask them about it - may have been a temporary situation - or put them at the end of the ring (this way they won't stall the book for others, but if you want the book back this might not appeal to you) or refuse to accept them. [In the latter case I would tell them why; they may not be aware of the concerns.] But: I've had bookrings stall with people who were, up to that point, active BCers with good pass-the-book-along records; I just happened to hit them at the point where they either left BC completely or had some kind of personal troubles that pushed book-mailing out of their heads. And books get lost in the mail. So if you're avoiding starting bookrings because you hate the idea of losing the book or of having to cope with a stalled book, perhaps you shouldn't try - BC is supposed to be fun, and if this wouldn't be fun for you, there are plenty of other ways to enjoy books. Life's stressful enough without adding something that would stress you in an un-fun way! -GoryDetails http://bookcrossing.com/friend/GoryDetails ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/S.QlOD/3MnJAA/Zx0JAA/wnIolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Have you told a friend today? http://bookcrossing.com/tellafriend Archives and email list settings: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCrossing Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCrossing/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
