The future of the list -- nanny time?

[Thomas Vieth]

I laughed out loud about that one, too. I thought it so funneeeee!
So, herewith I second what you said, Vaska.

Thomas Vieth
Down with Triolahidi
Long live Hollerodullyo


----Original Message Follows----
Date:	Wed, 23 Jul 1997 16:14:05 -0300
To:	Pynchon List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
From:	Vaska <vaska at geocities.com>
Subject: Re: The future of the list -- nanny time?

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

My fear is that the very existence of a moderator, however moderate he 
or
she might be, would place a pall over the usually lively, sometimes 
edgy,
occasionally mean-spirited, often informative, and frequently zany [flow 
of]
messages on this list.  I have a feeling that the mere presence of such 
a
"pointsman" would, for example, deprive us of the deliciously funny 
comment
by the Robot Vegetable:

> Hadn't heard of "sfacimento," though.  

    Capitol of California.

This would be achieved not by any filtering act of the moderator but by 
the
chill of self-censorship that would suddenly lodge itself in many a 
heart on
this list.  

Maybe I'm wrong.

Vaska










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