"Tired of seeing Pynchon-L used" (was "But the world isn't like that")

[barbara100 at jps.net]

It's not the topics of discussion I stick around Pynchon-l.  It's not even
Pynchon.  Crazy as it may sound, it's the people.

----- Original Message -----
From: "davemarc" <davemarc at panix.com>

> Hundreds of people apparently subscribed to this list for Pynchon-related
> discussions.  There are many other arenas for an intelligent, probing
> discussion of similarly involving subjects, such as politics, geopolitics,
> war, etc.  I think the subscribers here can be trusted to care about
> political issues and seek out forums to discuss them without having them
> shoved down our throats on a daily or hourly basis here.  Same thing with
> all those flames that just don't seem to go burn themselves out.  Enough
> already!  Stop it.  Please.  I'd really like hate to see this mailing list
> wind up like that Beat mailing list and a whole lot of newsgroups.
>
> d.
>
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