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[Henry M]

Your response seems a little disingenuous to me. I can't remember the
last time a message to the pynchon-l, particularly one as amusing as
Rigney's, provoked as few responses of any sort. I guess everyone was 
just to plumb tuckered out after that laugh-riot to congratulate him 
on his spot-on lampoon. My sides still hurt!

> From:          Murthy Yenamandra <yenamand at cs.umn.edu>
> Subject:       Re: On this list
> To:            pynchon-l at waste.org (pynchon-l)
> Date:          Wed, 26 Feb 1997 11:40:31 -0600 (CST)

> Henry M writes:
> > On 25 Feb 97 at 2:08, John Rigney wrote, and because it was 
> > "relevant to the list." or "if we don't say anything, it'll go
> > away," or, ford forgive, out of complacent, tacit agreement, the
> > good germans of p-list gave no response to: [...]
> 
> Please don't equate non-reaction with tacit approval - if we all had
> to react to every message that we disapprove of on the list, we'd
> never have any time to do anything else. We all have different
> limits on how much crap we can tolerate without throwing it at the
> fan.
> 
> Now that I've voiced this particular disapproval, I hope it won't be
> construed as a tacit approval of all the other crap that's floating
> around on the list.
> 
> Murthy
> 
> -- 
> Murthy Yenamandra, Dept of CompSci, U of Minnesota.
> mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than
> some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
>                 -- Tenessee Williams
> 

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