GRAYZONE, that black rag: Can't cut & paste

[Dee Kilroy]

This speaks directly to my seventeen year experience of P-list:

"When I started participating in the Pynchon List, the written work of
Pynchon was the prime topic. Politial implications of the work could be
exceptionally dicey but there was a balance of voices. Over the years many
have left and it is my sense that a primary reason is the ever growing
drift into topics that are not connected to Pynchon’s writing. Later group
readings began to peter out unfinished. Off topic arguments pushed people
away."

Fandoms are frustrating, and in the context of the modern
internet-for-everyone, frequently toxic.  The last three times I have
joined up-- during a read / research phase, usually, tied directly to an
annual read of one of my favorite Pynchon novels --I have lasted an average
of three months before the noise-to-signal ratio overwhelms my compulsion
to clean my inbox.  I am tired of opening my mail to noxious grumbling from
internet authorities-slash-cranks about how wicked & inhuman neocons /
neolibs are.  I am not here for polemics.  I am here for Pynchon.

Everyone on this list, fan & cranks, KNOWS the secret chiefs of this world
are malevolent putzes.  In P-list's present iteration, most of the missives
I've received on this subject are not informative or inspiring.  Before,
they were tedious; now that things have yet again slalomed into slanging
territory, it's all below boorish.

I am unsubscribing if this persists and it shall be a permanent departure.
The cranks sha'n't care, and why should they?  I haven't contributed
anything they're interested in hearing.  Which principally seems to be
echoes.  Echoes.  Echoes.

The last time I left, it was because a troll (and it truly doesn't matter
who; naming names & blaming blame does sweet F.A. in a flamewar) decided I
was worth attacking.  I believe it was for relating a personal anecdote of
being a teenage runaway, which got a real sweet, snide "Everyone has a
story" from one of the shit-stirrers.  Why did it get personal?  Search
me.  It just did.  So I left.  Stayed away so long, when I came back,
P-list was on a whole new server & running new software.

The next time I send an unsubscribe command it will be because there is
nothing left in P-list worth preserving.

Sincerely, cranks?  If I wanted to know what Josh Marshall was typing
today, I would not have stopped browsing Talking Points Memo over a damned
decade ago.  Schtum with the copypasta.