Andrew's curious methods

[Tom Stanton]

At 02:04 PM 3/18/97 -0500, Peter Romanienko wrote:
>>On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, davemarc wrote, re: How Andrew found the P-list:
>>> Here's what he wrote in his original post:
>>> "Oh, I forgot to
>>> mention I'm only 11 years old and how I found this list server was from
>>> www.yahoo.com and I searched for young writers' list serve  and it gave me
>>> this location.  (Netsite, site, etc.)  So I assume that this is for young
>>> writers?  Please reply back with the answer."
>>> davemarc
>>
>>Yeah, but, what I meant was, what is there about the Yahoo! listing for
>>the P-list that would lead one to believe that it is some kind of "young
>>writers'" support group?
>>
>>Guess I'll go run a yahoo search on Pynchon.  Last time I did that, I
>>don't recall anything coming up about "young writers".  Maybe it's
>>changed.
>>
>>Joe
>
>The only connection to young writers for the p-list I could think of is
>TRP's Faulkner Award for V, it being his first novel and he being about 26
>or so when it was published.
>Otherwise the whole Andrew situation is a paranoid's nightmare.
>
>Peter
>

Andrew says he found this list server by searching Yahoo! for "young
writers' list serve."  I tried this string & got lots of nice links for
kids & writing. No Pynchon. 
But if you type "writer list serve" you get one -- and only one -- result: 

	http://pete.pomona.edu/pynchon/pynchonlist.html

I tested the string in Alta Vista, Lycos, and Webcrawler & got no Pynchon
in the first 2 screens. So it only works this way in Yahoo!

All the young man did was ask. I hope he's still here.

Tom