Spam?

[Lemuel Underwing]

Personally, I'm glad to see some of the names I recognize only from the
archive, I hope you stick it out as your input will certainly be
appreciated...

Sorry if I'm one of the Culprits here...


On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> And Alice says it best, as often.....thanks for bringing it ' round on the
> guitar again, Alice..
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> The plist is akin to P's vision of moments of anarchy in our lives.
> Reminds me of that moment in AtD when Who? Is led to an old pile of
> T--shirts to pick one and is told: " Closest you're gonna get to real
> anarchy in this place".
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> Verry depressed is exactly how I would describe my state after reading
> that outragious description of the bitch. verry depressed. we should
> seriously consider filling the bath to the brim, bringing the blender
> in.Toss in humor, irony, hyperbole, satire, and comedy, the doctor, the
> nurse, and Anything that can't be trimmed to a tight and tidy smirk,
> perfectly packed in the chancellor's alligator purse, must be plunged down
> the drain. After a good jolting. That includes you. What? You didn't think
> you'd be saved....you?
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> Spam spam spam
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> Spam I am
>  Green farts and lamb
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> Kids, it's a fools game. You make your own rules and you enforce them on
> yourself.
> Don't expect the rest to play your song.
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> We can all plat here. Here is space enough. Delete, block, ask folks to
> clean up, get into plain text....the List is an old tub, can't serve us if
> we toss everything in. But who are we to demand service?
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> books/review/odds-against-tomorrow-by-nathaniel-rich.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
> On Sunday, September 22, 2013, Jamie Big Dada wrote:
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>> Agreed. It was also very depressing to see German politicians being
>> called 'Nazi bitch' this morning.
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>> On Sep 22, 2013, at 11:42, 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.
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>> 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
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>> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 22:30:03 -0700
>> From: grladams at teleport.com
>> To: Pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Subject: Re: Spam?
>>
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>> 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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