Re: Book Club
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Sat, 24 Jan 1998 15:41:04 -0600
> So, it was never realy decided whether or not we would form a book club. I
> would really like to know soon, because i will be leaving the list soon. I
> don't have time to read these emails with bickering and general crap. It
> isn't what I thought it would be. SO, let us resolve this thing soon, ok
Hi, all. I have been on a small sabbatical from this list because of
personal distractions and some of the generally silly or rude behavior that
I saw starting up. I've got several dozen messages to go through, and
probably won't get to read them for a while, and I'm out of town (in San
Antonio, Texas -- any Bananafish subscribers here?) for a week, so my time
online will be sharply curtailed.
I think the book-discussion list is a great, separate idea. I like the
name "BananaBooks"; nobody has said that it stinks, so I propose that we go
ahead and make it. Rather, *I* will, since I am the person who manages
this stuff for NYU, a school gracious enough to give us a home **and**
distinguished enough to have produced Will Hochman, in his Ph.D.
incarnation.
I will send an explicit message to the list when it's ready. Please DO NOT
try to subscribe to it until I release the news. I have enough mail to
wade through already, I don't need to have bunches of "list not found"
error messages.
If anyone has private concerns or complaints, please send them to this
address (tim@roughdraft.org) and we can discuss them. I gather there have
been a couple of name-calling episodes, based on private mail. I sure hope
that this has stopped by now, and if it hasn't, I'd like to gently ask
people who want to bicker to take it to private mail. The list doesn't
need it. And I (after spending a period of time not unlike Franny on the
family couch) strongly discourage it.
Cheers to everybody!
--tim o'connor