Spam?

[Robert Mahnke]

As one suggestion going forward, it would be great if someone started a
list of reviews on Google Docs or somewhere else -- that could be added to,
and one could look there for new reviews instead of having a new email
chain for each one.  Even if I click on a link to find a review I want to
look at again, I'm never going to be able to find it in the welter of email
here.


On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Rich Clavey <antizoyd at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Alice is right. I've been enjoying the list since the legendary Andrew
> Dinn days and there was just as much noise back then. I belong to a number
> of groups related to our fungal friends and identing them and am seriously
> considering dropping them since they are moderated. Talk about bullshit on
> a list. And you just get kicked off. Long live un-moderated lists!
> Rich
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>  *From:* Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> *To:* alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Sent:* Sunday, September 22, 2013 6:21 AM
> *Subject:* Re: Spam?
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> 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:
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> 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.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Morris
> Sent: Sep 21, 2013 9:13 PM
> To: P-list
> Subject: Spam?
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> BE feels like Spam in the P-list today.
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> Curmudgeon Morris
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