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Back from the listserv grave

The play.

That thing is nearly five years old. If I were to write it today, it’d wind up being longer. And it would involve a fiber holy war after the acrylic rug burn remark. And extra quoted posts so that the length of the giant ASCII sig was doubled through line breaks.

And I’d add someone dumping on a second person dumping on a third person for asking a newbie question.

And someone griping about so-called “direct from the mill to you” retailers stealing revenue from bricks-and-mortar shops.

And someone pointing out that while it’s generally easier to ask Google first before asking several thousand other people, in that specific case maybe that wouldn’t be true because the OP can’t spell. (And someone asking what “OP” means.)

And someone complaining about the way the listowner manages the list.

Oh, and some kind of trademark dispute. That’d be funny too.

15 Responses to “Back from the listserv grave”

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   Chris said on February 12th, 2006 at 12:37 pm

   Hee hee. Alarmingly accurate.

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   jennifer said on February 12th, 2006 at 12:42 pm

   Still the best send-up of knitting lists around, even after 5 years.

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   ~Jo~ said on February 12th, 2006 at 1:10 pm

   It may have been written 5 years ago, the same questions get ased today. Thanks for the laughs! LOL! Oops, you know what lol is right? ;)

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   Janice in Ga said on February 12th, 2006 at 3:02 pm

   Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose, eh?

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   sue said on February 12th, 2006 at 11:11 pm

   too funny. but all so true….sigh.

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   Samina said on February 13th, 2006 at 10:03 am

   One small comment: Your talent is wasted on law.

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   mamacate said on February 13th, 2006 at 11:16 am

   Well, only Jo will probably get this, but you could also add people making generalizations about the attitudes of knitters from various countries, and then other people calling them bigoted. Because that one is great fun (on a weekly basis).

   Oh, and there’s also the one about the TRUE historical roots of (fill in the fiber tradition) and how some people know everything about this and some people are talking out of their arses.

   I gotta shut up now.

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   Laura said on February 13th, 2006 at 1:30 pm

   I have to laugh because that pretty much sums up why I don’t really bother with knitting lists anymore.

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   martin m said on February 13th, 2006 at 1:55 pm

   My dear i think you need to go back to work…either that or start up the agony aunt thingy again.

   regards
   mmb

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    Stephanie Earp said on February 13th, 2006 at 4:08 pm

    I read the whole assuming it was real.

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    mamaloo said on February 14th, 2006 at 3:33 pm

    How frighteningly funny and depressing at the same time!

    I’d add in a bitchfest between people who give sage knitting advice and the people who advocate that craft cotton is just fine for socks! Oh, the righteousness of the true believer!

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    lucia said on February 16th, 2006 at 3:21 pm

    Based on today’s content at knitflame, you’d also need to add someone complaining about what one of the subscribers posted at their blog.

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    Rebecca said on February 17th, 2006 at 12:02 am

    You forgot the part where it splinters into 3 different lists… ;)

    That is too funny, thanks for sharing!!

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    Carol said on February 21st, 2006 at 1:13 pm

    Wow, for a moment I thought I was back on the knitlist. Scary.

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    j. said on May 18th, 2007 at 7:01 am

    Because of an excess of spam, I’ve closed comments on this post. If you have a comment to leave please find another, more recent post somwhere and leave your comment there, or e-mail.