Spam?

[Markekohut]

Open letter to the Plist:

Play it f*ucking louder...
especially all those threads I can't stand and don't participate in; especially with all the over-the-line--"you're over-the-line,dude"---remarks which make me cringe which remind me of what the Candlebrows at Columbia said about GR; post the irrelevant until the whole list is made up of
the preterites that the leavers have left behind.

Sincerely,
Spambot the First


Sent from my iPad

On Sep 22, 2013, at 6:42 AM, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Agreed. Just re subscribed due to Bleeding Edge and seriously considering jumping ship again. I've often pondered suggesting that people who are posting spam should tag it as such, the same way we use 'NP' to denote a lack of direct relevance, maybe prefixing their subject lines with, say, 'TWS' for Timewasting Shite.
> 
> Sorry, rude. I don't even know which particular culprits Jill is assessing here - not been back on the list long enough - but I recognise the syndrome: virtually every plist email I open saps my will to continue.
> 
> 
> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 22:30:03 -0700
> From: grladams at teleport.com
> To: Pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: Spam?
> 
> 
> Yeah, this list's useless. I'm sad about it. And mad too. I have returned from a short weekend with 247 new emails to delete, which will predictably contain at least a hundred forwards having anything to do with any word ever used by Thomas Pynchon, via about 2 list participants, whom I have begun to dread-and these are probably nice people who I haven't ever even met.  But I have begun to loathe them because they are list destroyers. They are broadcasting dual me-too's and announcing every little thing that pops into their minds many times an hour. I remember the days when the vast majority of posts were more deeply thought presentations --no less provocative, tho everyone thought very long and hard about hitting send before something was meant to be seen. I beg the RSS Forwarders and Twitter forwarders, put all your shit into 1 email per day, at least? You know? In the past, one took time to read what was delivered via Pynchon-l but now yeah it feels like spam. If I wanted to be on twitter, I would be on twitter. If I wanted to set up an RSS feed on every single news outlet and blog to scour them for all words ever written by Pynchon, it's not that hard to do and I would do it, but I don't, so please don't put all that shit on this list, ok? Maybe it's just me, maybe I'm older now and more sober and this all seems like a low priority to sift thru chaff and come up with 12 wheat kernels in this mound. Now it seems like the list is a contest to see how useless a listerv can be by its own massiveness of a heap shit death. I'm sorry it's not working out and that I have to text message break up with you. Seriously I think I've got to bow out. Unless I live a stagnant life in front of a soul sucking screen, I cannot participate. I wish I could set up rules to trash all the crap that isn't of some originality and mine will be first on your list I'm sure. 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: David Morris 
> Sent: Sep 21, 2013 9:13 PM 
> To: P-list 
> Subject: Spam? 
> 
> BE feels like Spam in the P-list today.
> 
> Curmudgeon Morris
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