alt.books.pynchon

[Henry M]

Ugh! I don't want all those dirty p-groupies (as opposed to 
p-listers) contaminating our list (dare I say "our?" p-please?)
This is exactly what some people were (I Thought unnecessarily) afraid 
of.

On 18 Nov 96 at 21:01, Paul Mackin wrote:

> From:          Paul Mackin <mackin at allware.com>
> To:            "'pynchon-l at waste.org'" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject:       RE: alt.books.pynchon
> Date:          Mon, 18 Nov 1996 21:01:27 -0500

> For better or worse it looks like there is going to be a Pynchon
> news group.
> 
> The thing to do is to make it painless as possible.
> 
> There will be pain along with the advantages whatever they are I
> don't dispute their existence.
> 
> As for the pain, I know I won't much like having to look in an
> additional place every day to make sure I didn't miss something.
> 
> So, can someone figure out a way so that all messages will appear in
> both places once and ONLY once? So a person can chose one or the
> other mode on any given day and not miss anything.
> 
> If this could be done, I doubt if there'd end up being much
> difference from the p-list as presently constituted. The group is
> already heterogeneous. People pick and choose what interests them.
> (I'm assuming this). Even a slightly larger number of messages to
> filter through wouldn't seem to be a problem. I'm basing this upon
> the ease with which MY mailer can sort in just about any way
> imaginable. (This is just my assumption natch)
> 
> I'm not familiar with the software used to run a list or a newsgroup
> but my guess is that it would be quite straightforward to route all
> messages sent the p-list to the newsgroup, and of course the
> reverse. The method used would have to assure that there would be no
> duplication.
> 
> My apologies to the folks who would have to do the extra work of
> carrying this out.  
> 
>     P.
> 

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