alt.books.pynchon

[RedBug]

I'm afraid I'd have to second Andrew's opinion. Is there any benefit of
which I am not aware to having a usenet group as opposed to a list-serve? I
also assume that anyone who can access Usenet can be on our list, yes? It
seems it would just dilute.

Redbug

On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Andrew Dinn wrote:

> 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
> -----------
> And though Earthliness forget you,
> To the stilled Earth say:  I flow.
> To the rushing water speak:  I am.
>