ASSumptions

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

Sara Jones wrote the following offensive post:
> I find this statement offensive.  "lettered"? maybe... if lettered 
> implies formally educated, mainly formally educated in the use of
> vocabulary words.
> As for "high-class", I've never seen so much petty squabbling, idle
> threats, dumb un-related one line replies to 500 lines of quoted text, and

This list is mostly pretty restrained.  Ever looked at a news group?

> non-literary or even topical comments.

Oh horrors! P-listers post non-literary or even topical posts!  Murthy and
Oliver, you'd better start moderating the list right now.

> I don't mind the volume of the mails, but there seems to be a group of
> high-volume posters who seem to take great delight in tittering about their
> greatness in being in such ivory tower cliques.  

How do you feel about people who post whiny messages about how things
would be if they ran the zoo? 

> Folks, here's how I see it:

Oh joy, I can't wait to hear the truth from the mouth of the wise one.

> Everyone who reads a Pynchon book and enjoys it must be able to handle the
> English language fairly well.  They also, by association, must find reading
> a rewarding activity, and perhaps also have read other books.  Discussion
> of TRP's works and/or other literary works which are related is what I am
> on this list for, and what I enjoy about it.  Following up interesting
> ideas like the "Rev. Cherrycoke"/coke mythos is fantastic.
> Thousands of posts on how great it is to be you -- no thanks.

As has been suggested to others, why don't you set up a kill file or use
your delete key liberally. 

	Steve Maas