The Resuming of the GR/GR

[Jay Carlson]

Andrew Dinn wrote:

> I don't know about everyone else's intentions, but when I agreed to
> host the GRGR I deliberately chose only to cover part 1 and see how we
> got on before trying any more. Not only is M&D looming, contributions
> towards the end of part 1 were somewhat lower than at the beginning
> and I for one found this lack of interest a sign that we should
> suspend the reading pending further encouragement. Anyway, I have to
> get to grips with some horrendous bugs over the next few weeks and I
> still have a PhD to write so . . .

Part of why contributions dropped off, I think, is that pynchon-l got
involved in hundred-messages-a-day flame wars about the time things
started getting interesting.  Me, I didn't have time to try to sort
the messages by hand and ended up doing a lot of rmm `pick unseen
-to pynchon -or -cc pynchon` in order to get any work done.  I'm sure
other people out there were more interested in the GRGR than those
mostly off-topic flamewars. (what were they about anyway?  I've
already forgotten.)

Anyway, it'd be really nice to have either a second mailing list or a
forwarding service for people interested in the GRGR.  I'm sure we
could find a place to host it.

In general I've been disappointed with the overall signal to noise
ratio here.  Perhaps I've been hanging out with the technologists too
long, but at least they're pretty good at taking flames to email, not
quoting an entire message to add a single sentence of reply, not
replying to messages that it's obvious somebody else is already going to
reply to, formatting messages nicely, usw.
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Jay Carlson    nop at nop.com

Flat text is just *never* what you want.   ---stephen p spackman