Another decade, another book?

[Oliver Xymoron]

On Sun, 8 Oct 1995, Susan M Danewitz wrote:

> As a point aside, I have been recently been worried over the legality
> of quoting others in lists, in this respect: Am I destroying a piece of
> content when I take out blank lines of the post???  I've read too many 
> comments on the "ellision" recently and feel uneasy, even in the interest
> of bandwidth, to alter a person's writing in this way...

Most net folk consider email to be more like talking than writing. 
Pynchon-l may lean more towards the literary end of the spectrum 
than just about anywhere else on the net, but it's still quite 
casual. The proof is in proofreading the profs. Email quoting is merely a 
way of saying "remember how you mentioned this a few hours/days ago, let 
me bring your attention to this part in particular..." There's always the 
capacity to misrepresent, and you hardly need a delete key to do that: 
email is terse and always leaves out a substantial amount of context.

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