http://www.wired.com/news/culture/story/3431.html

[Alan Westrope]

On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, argus at dns.city-net.com (argus.) wrote:

>http://www.wired.com/news/culture/story/3431.html

>An article about the Lineland thing is in the Wired News from
>friday.  Yuck.

If the foax at Wired had a clue, they'd include the name of their
own mag in the "Tired" column of their regular "Tired/Wired" feature.
However, I found this paragraph of the article interesting:

   Not everyone on the list - and in outside literary circles - is
   pleased about Lineland's publication. "If a writer wants his
   privacy, it doesn't seem to be anyone's business but his own,"
   says John Leonard, literary editor at The Nation and longtime
   Pynchon reviewer. "You can't tell anyone what to write about, but
   I think it feels grubby."

Leonard also does reviews on the CBS "Sunday Morning" show in the U.S.,
and today he mentioned that next Sunday he will discuss, "Thomas Pynchon's
wonderful new 18th-century novel."  As they say, check your local listings.

Also, in the Wired article, contrast Jules Siegel's

  They had a vision of him [TRP] as a mix of Burroughs and Kerouac.

with Chris Karatnytsky's

  Some of us thought that the list might fold because of the huge
  (and I mean huge) flame war that erupted.

Jules inaccurately depicts the entire list by using 'They.'  I have *no*
such vision of TRP!  (And anyone can quote me, anytime, anyplace, FREE!)
Chris's 'Some of us' is correct.  Others, like myself, simply don't give a
flying fuck.  And, regarding the proposed 'banishment' of Jules from the
list, I'm an advocate of free speech.  Let the individual user decide
what individuals and/or subjects s/he wants to delete.  This works for me:

:0:
* ^From: Jules Siegel
junk
:0:
* ^TOpynchon-l
pync

While procmail isn't everyone's cup of tea, most mail software includes
some filtering ability, using macros/scripts/rules/whatever.  And even if
you filter manually, it's quick and painless to scan messages and delete
them unread based on sender/subject -- using everything from Berkeley
mail to the latest GUI/SLIP/PPP/MIME-cognizant/"Press <Control-Esc-Tab>
to view a 3.24-terabyte QuickTime video!" mail software.

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