The old/rumored Pynchon-l newsgroup at SFU

[Oliver Xymoron]

On Fri, 21 Jun 1996, John M. Krafft wrote:

> My university just managed to add sfu.archive.pynchon to its list of 
> accessible newsgroups.  The group was empty, so I posted a test message
> which may or may not show up.  Wasn't the group originally intended to be a kind of mirror site for list postings?  If the group could be subscribed 
> to this list, then flushed every week or so, it might be convenient.  Of course,
> to serve that purpose well, it would have to be "moderated" as a news group
> so people could not, in fact, post directly to it.

There is currently no mechanism in place to gateway this list to a
newsgroup (as far as I know!). I don't think the newsgroup model is
well-suited to the kind of discussion that usually happens on Pynchon-l,
but if there's a lot of interest, I could examine it further..

Oxymoron (Pynchon-l co-owner)

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