BEg2 chapter 5 - “Winnie List”

[Michael Bailey]

Driscoll Padgett is a freelance Web-page designer, “making it up as I go
along, just like everybody else,” also temping as a code writer, for $30 an
hour—she’s fast and conscientious, and the word has got around, so she’s
more or less steadily in demand,
though now and then there’s a gap in the rent cycle where she’s had to
resort to the Winnie list, or index cards stuck up next to dumpsters, and
so forth. Loft parties sometimes, though that’s usually for the cheap
drinks.

          The Winnie List?

         Mark Kohut pointed me to Urban Dictionary, but it didn’t seem like
any of their entries described a nexus for employment, unless I missed
something.


Pynchonwiki has the answer (note to self: check there more regularly)

*Winnie list*
The New York World Wide Web Workers e-mail list — the WWWNY (or “Winnie”)
list — circulated among 2,000 Web professionals in New York in the web's
early days, and was a good place to hunt for freelance assignments. The
Winnie list also provided a forum for a lot of quirky blowhards to rant
endlessly about Aggro Software’s browser or attack NetScathe’s flaky table
support &c &c.