Can Pynchon-L be far behind?

[Penny Padgett]

Hi all,

This week's NYTimes Book Review (6/16/96, p. 51) has a full-page 
article by Robert Sullivan, a contributing editor at Vogue, singing 
the praises of the James Joyce mailing lists (J-Joyce and F-Wake, if 
I understand him correctly).

Surprisingly, Sullivan stays away from almost all of the cliches
of newbie-on-the-Internet writing.  He manages to communicate in a
lively fashion the wide range of topics and levels of interest that 
postings to a literary mailing list can generate.  A quote:

  Mostly, however, the scholarly and the not-so-scholarly chat
  together peacefully, as was the case in a recent three-day
  discussion of flatulence in Joyce's work, which was prompted
  by a graduate student's apparently serious need to compare
  Joyce's take on the matter with Dante's in "Paradise Lost."

So, I ask, can a similar article lauding Pynchon-L be far behind?
Which of our native writers or scholars can we tap to communicate
the joys of noshing at the virtual Pynchon banquet?

Penny