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[Paul Mackin]

On Sun, 2003-05-25 at 18:45, Dave Monroe wrote: 
> And for the record, in response to Rob Jackson's
> constant baiting, I'll note that Robert mounted what I
> took after a while to be an offlist harrassment
> campaign.  As they were at first continuations of
> onlist exchanges, being new to the List, I didn't
> quite realize at first that I was getting messages
> that weren't being posted to everyone else.  I then
> posted a response thinking I'd merely hit "reply"
> rather than "reply all," and only later found that I
> was getting personal treatment.  Even as Rob was
> posting furiously to the List as well.  In the end,
> having posted the one response, I posted the exchange
> in order to avoid confusion, and so everybody could
> better understand the situation.
> 
> In all fairness, I had a similar situation going on at
> the time with Charles Hollander, though taht was
> rather more clearly marked as offlist.  The Dude
> occsaionally keeps in touch when the mood strikes him,
> for which I'm eternally grateful, as, while I so often
> find myself completely unqualified to respond, 


Charles H. writes many off-list posts and it's sometimes difficult to
reply to these and still remain on friendly terms with him. I
discovered  this years ago.   If one is at all concerned about such
matters one is well advised not to question the worthiness or validity
of his Pynchon scholarship. Personally I'm NOT concerned and this is NOT
a complaint.

P.