Was Reading and discussing Pynchon's texts

[Otto]

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Subject: Re: Was Reading and discussing Pynchon's texts


> --- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
> > If this list would be turned into a moderated list
> > you would be the first
> > victim, and I'm defending your freedom to post
> > whatever you like too.
>
> I've advocated for years that Pynchon-L should be
> moderated; everybody would have to avoid the
> unpleasant excesses in which everybody here engages,
> and the discussion would remain focused on Pynchon.
> What's wrong with that?
>

There's no moderated list I know that's interesting. P-List is interesting
because it's unmoderated.

> And, yes, there was quite a bit of offlist discussion
> about the way you and the Gang of Five have smothered
> the Foreword group reading.

As I said, offlist discussions don't count.

> It's been obvious that
> you guys tired of it quickly, and now you're trying to
> force a new, NP discussion.

The foreword discussion has stopped because there were no new posts.

> I'd say this makes you
> all look pretty darn hypocritical, given the way you
> whine about so-called "NP" posts from me and others --

Do I? Can't remember in the course of the foreword discussion.

Otto