pynchon-l-digest V2 #1780

[David Morris]

--- Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com> wrote:
> I don't really want to "eject" anybody

So you've changed your tune?

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9803&msg=655&sort=author

From: MalignD <MalignD@[omitted]> 
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 11:25:12 EST 
To: pynchon-l@[omitted] 
Subject: Re: for a moderated list 3 

"One of these simple, common sense  rules is not to *personally* attack
anybody on the list (which does not at all mean you can't disagree with
somebody else, you just don't make it personal, as MalignD did in his
name-calling salvos against the Pynch-alike thread) ... Another step in the
right direction, in my opinion, would be to request that the list owners un-
subscribe Mittelwork@[omitted]. And to un-subscribe anybody who comes onto the
list spewing that sort of garbage in the future."

I vowed to leave this alone, but Schoolmarm-at-Arms Millison, believing his
own priggish standards universal, wants a moderated list that would censor my
comments and toss Mittelwerk off the list entirely. 

Hysteria and hyperbole notwithstanding, the only "name-calling salvo" I
recollect visiting upon anyone, was comparing (flatteringly) the compiler of
the Annotated Pynch-alike List to Charles Kinbote.  That aside, my comments
about that list were impersonal, unless any disagreeing comment is taken to
personally attack the commentator.  

Millison finds this spewed garbage" as compared to his calling me a
"despicable coward" and likening me (albeit, perhaps, enviously) to a genital-
sniffing dog.  So much for "common sense rules."  He should toss himself off
the list, the brute.

"Sir Hannibal Grunt-Gobbinette is threatening between spasms of yellow bile
foaming out his nose, to bring the matter up in Parliament.  'I'll see you two
in the Scrubs if it kills me!'" 

Pass the phlegm fudge.




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