The future of the list -- nanny time?

[Erik Pohl]

At 02:51 PM 7/23/97 -0300, you wrote:
>Paul Mackin adds::
>>Doug Millison wrote:

{suggestion that someone take the role of Pynchon-l's voice of conscience}

>>Sounds zany of course but something needs to lift us out the
>>the current impass.  
>
>So we need a nanny now to keep us all in line, do we?  I propose that we all
>chill out for a month or two and then reconsider if we really want these
>nursery-school measures, after all.

As a supporter of mailing list moderation (especially of the soft variety),
I have to say that the only way fair list moderation and "nursery-school
measures" are alike is that they both try to keep spoiled brats and infants
from ruining the progress of a group.

If you're trying to imply that mailing list moderation would definitely
place a ceiling on our abilities to achieve progress in the realm of
Pynchonalia (by somehow limiting research or analysis about Pynchon's
writing or life), I think you are _dead wrong_ in your analogy. 

I think I'm assuming a fair, open-minded, "willing-to-discuss-matters"
moderator; you, perhaps, are assuming someone else?
 
>Vaska