[Tim Ware]

Josiah,


> From: Josiah Miller <josiahthemessiah at yahoo.com>
>
> I was wondering if I got kicked of the Pynchon list?  I haven't  
> received one
> since the 19th of December.  If I did get kicked out, I understand  
> and I'll
> leave now, I may be a bit broken-hearted, but I should be able to  
> survive.
>

I don't think anybody gets "kicked off" this list. Who'd do it? I  
don't think it's managed that way.

> Was it because I had sent to the P-list in Rich text instead of  
> Plain text?
> I'm sorry for that.  I'm using a Mac at home and I'm sending e-mails
> through Yahoo, so I hope this is in Plain text so I can at least  
> start to repair
> the nearly catastrophic P-list severences.

Your emails look clean & plain to me. In fact, the digest is now  
amazingly clean of the all the formatting cruft. A beautiful thing...

> I wonder if Pynchon was on this list, if he would send messages in  
> Plain text
> or in Rich text.  I'm sure it would be in Rich text first being a  
> luddite
> and all.  I wonder if he would have any sort of intelligent or  
> thought-provoking
> remarks to make in the discussions on this list.  I doubt it if he  
> would have
> anything new to say that hasn't already been said.

What makes you think Pynchon's a luddite? Because of an article he  
wrote in 1984? My sense is that he's probably quite comfortable on the  
Internet.

Cheers,
Tim