The LMB List and Me

I'm beginning to think that I'm subscribed to the LMB mailing list more out of a desire to maintain social ties than anything else, and now with LJ helping me maintain the ties I've considered most important, I'm having a hard time justifying my continued membership. It gets about as much of my attention as the spam folder that I glance through really quick to make sure I don't miss any real mail.

When I first resubscribed, it was the reams of Paladin of Souls discussions. Not only have I never really been interested in those point-by-point discussions of a single book, but I don't even have the book yet. Now the discussions look to be heavily weighted toward sex, with speculation on what Miles and Ekaterin did on their honeymoon at the Orb, and talk of naked picture attachments being sent around (even an admonition from James Bryant, indicating someone may have tried to send a picture to the entire list?) And I'm teetering between aggressively disinterested and actively squicked.

So, I'll unsubscribe when I get activated, if not sooner, and I don't think I'll go back. (And boy was that another one; what an outpouring of interest that post of mine received. Not that this is a direct reaction to that howling void, but it sure doesn't make me care more.) I don't think I've ever measured up to the level of intense fandom that I've encountered on that list, anyway. I like the books, I like talking about them... but I don't reread them all regularly, or anything like that. And I'm so so so so not interested in trying to read so deeply between the lines that I know whether or not Miles and Ekaterin played at D/s on their honeymoon to the Orb.

It's been fun... I like you all that I've met there. But... meh.