Subject: Re: Adios, regretfully!
From: denis jonnes (djengltl@mbox.nc.kyushu-u.ac.jp)
Date: Thu Mar 23 2000 - 22:37:08 EST
As one who left the list, then came back, but again wondering about
wisdom of it, I definitely sympathize with Ed. As someone who also
checks the list out at the office and coming in after a weekend to find
100 plus messages waiting to be sorted through (and after one recent
long weekend, 150 plus)--about whose girlfriends are into zen and whose
not, and who wants theirs to be--I see his point. Am surprised though
the office never caught on.
Denis Jonnes
Ed Fenning wrote:
>
> Dear Bananafishers,
>
> After some thought, it is with regret that I am going
> to unsubscribe to Bananafishlist for awhile. It is
> something I致e been thinking about for a few weeks and
> has nothing to do with any of the recent events here
> or other folks leaving.
>
> It boils down to simple logistics for me. As I致e
> written in probably almost every one of my postings,
> I致e no computer at home, so I partially read and/or
> skim through as many of the daily Bananafish postings
> as I can, here at work, on the sly.
>
> As a result, the following issues have developed for
> me:
>
> 1. I have become less productive at work Reading,
> checking and/or deleting incoming emails (almost all
> Bananafish) throughout the day, is the same as being
> interrupted by taps on the shoulder. Responding
> intelligently to someone痴 post with a well written
> response really cuts into my time here as well. I get
> behind, and must stay late to catch up so that
> 賭uestionswill not be asked. My time
> management/personal time has become very screwed up
> (or, to use an old New York expression, gone 電own the
> toiletOb.Sal. probably used by guys like Horwitz
> the cabbie, that goddamn Maurice, and perhaps Zooey
> when he痴 on a nicotine inspired rant)
>
> 2. I致e become frustrated at not having the time to
> fully digest all the postings and there痴 some
> really good discussions going on. I have ended up
> deleting bunches of them, some times each day when
> they are still current, since I know I won稚 be able
> to read through them.
>
> 3. The ones I partially read at work, and save to go
> over later, have been filling up my mailbox like
> unread newspapers (saving 2 or 3 one day, then another
> day, etc.). At this point, I simply don稚 have the
> time to go and begin saving them, much less beginning
> the process of carefully reading and responding to
> them.
>
> 4. My job ends on April 14th this office is
> shutting down and moving to Raleigh. There痴 more
> 杜opping uppaper pushing to do here, and after the
> 14th, I will not have daily access to a computer thus will only be able check email at my public
> library a couple of times a week; so I致e got to cut
> my incoming email volume. Now, a couple of weeks
> before, is probably the best time to do this.
>
> I致e enjoyed being on this listserve (my first) and
> hope to re-subscribe at some future time. I realize
> that many of my postings were probaby more humorous
> than of Salinger substance, and a bit music related,
> but that seemed to be O.K. Maybe whenever I rejoin,
> hopefully I will have re-read Seymore, Nine Stories,
> Franny & Zooey and RHTRBC, so I can comment on them,
> as well as re-reading the early stories, so I can say
> what I want to say about several of them as well.
>
> My very great thanks to Tim for being a most excellent
> Keeper of this list, and taking it from one home to
> another, with no inconvenience in the process. I
> hope I don稚 go through withdrawal and re-subscribe in
> two days, making this whole thing look silly.
>
> Fishers, you池e all a great bunch of folks! Keep it
> percolating like all-nighter coffee. Goodbye for
> awhile and my best wishes too you all:
>
> Jason, Sonny, Elizabeth, Will, Scottie, Catherine
> Marie, Cecilia, Lucy Ruth Pearson, Paul Kennedy (CBC痴
> best) Matt, Mattis, Paul Miller, Bruce (left too?)
> Tory, Rev. Bob Pigeon, Jim (though he痴 probably
> left), The Laughing Man (hope you do make it to New
> York), Seane Draine, Meredith, Louise Z. Brooks
> (sigh!), CM Fisher, Gene, Robbie, Benjamin Samuels,
> Madhava, Becky
>
> - Ed Fenning
> ed361@yahoo.com
>
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