alt.books.pynchon

[Andrew Dinn]

Jester writes:

> Just a last ditch effort for comments and suggestions here.  I've already
> done much of the leg work through alt.config, and have changed the proposed
> name from alt.books.thomas-pynchon to the simple alt.books.pynchon.  I'm
> ready to send a control message which will create this group, but I'd like
> some input from the Pynchon-L mailing list vis-a-vis suggestions for the
> charter.  Below is a sample of the proposal posted (altered name) earlier.
> Please email your comments directly to me, and I look forward to seeing some
> of you, hopefully most of you, on the new newsgroup.

I have to confess, I'm agin it. News groups are too easy to write
thoughtless nonsense to. Looking at rec.arts.books I see far too many
people contributing far too little thought to far too many threads.
And stupid or ignorant Pynchon readers (of which my experience
suggests there are many, most of them not on the list thank goodness)
are really obnoxious. I have no intention of leaving this list for a
news group and I hope others do not do so.


Andrew Dinn
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