pynchon-l-digest V2 #2197

[David Morris]

>From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
>
>Don Corathers wrote:
> > I have tried to stay out of the current acrimonious conversation, partly 
>because I am comfortable in my long-time lurker status and partly because 
>it seems to me that arguing with Doug is an enormous waste of energy. But I 
>grow weak. For
> > the record:
>
>Don't bother. You will only get frustrated and called nasty names.
>
>Doug/Barb  loves to get gang banged.
>
>MalignD sticks a wedge in every fallacy, cracks the rhetoric, sends all
>of Doug/Barbara's posts to the garbage heap where they belong.
>
>The rest of us should not play Doug's gang-bang game.

For the sake of this list, I am more and more inclined to follow Terrance's 
advice here.  Doug/Barbara is sometimes an irresistable target, but that 
seems to be his intention.  Quail has amply shown that clear and polite 
response to the points of Doug/Barbara's posts results not in dialoge but in 
personal rancor.  Doug's goal is not discussion, but attention.




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