Hello again, Thanks for writing back. I'm glad you did, rather than just dismissing it all as piffle. Here are the bits I really didn't like:
Some of the mails as always were delicious.
Maybe it was just a bad choice of words, but the way it came across to me was that the same old people who always post are the only ones worth reading.
If you're on this list just to get an audience for your own thoughts on life, or breakfast, I'm afraid you don't belong. If a mail took you less than 15 minutes to write, then maybe you should think before sending it: it probably means you just want something, and to get something, you usually have to give something too.
Well, my mail obviously took less than 15 minutes to write. And I did want something - this was obvious in my requests. I just didn't really think it was much. Anyway, I don't think you're 'some sort of fascist who only wants novel writers to post', but it seemed to me that you were having a bit of a go to us who can't think of much to write at a time - I can understand being a bit annoyed when people post about 5 things which are all a couple of lines long, or when there are several posts which say exactly the same thing. there've been lots of times when I've been infuriated as hell by what I've read on the list, but I don't want to get into silly nasty arguments about stuff, so I've just kept quiet. Some things even make me angry. But I prefer that to nothing. Ho hum. Anyway, it's probably just me being unduly sensitive. I think it's more that, if you put your first post on and then something like this appears, you do feel a bit put off. Sorry, I didn't mean to cause any offence. It's just the list is pretty daunting. Well, who knows. I probably won't post again, at least not for a while, mainly because I can't think of anything to put on there. I know you love the list, and I'm not disputing that at all. I, as much as anyone, would hate for it to drop into complete rubbishness and die. I just don't think things were as bad as you said (although I appreciate that it's better to do something about it before things go all crappy). Well, this is probably mostly incoherent (I've just got to work, so I'm still waking up), but I hope you're not upset by what I wrote. that wasn't my intention at all. And I s'pose I'm probably the only person who took it all personally anyway. Sorry. Marc. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+