(urth) How list works and questions to mailers

Lane Haygood lhaygood at gmail.com
Sat May 10 22:07:16 PDT 2008


Whereabouts in Texas, Charles? I'm in Waco for law school, but I spend  
a fair amount of time in Austin.

Lane

On May 10, 2008, at 11:44 PM, Charles Reed wrote:
> Hi Oliver.  I'm from Texas.  I've always gotten the impression that  
> most of the people who post here are from the US, but that's  
> certainly not a scientific sampling.  My general reading preferences  
> outside of Gene Wolfe tend to lie in the fantasy genre rather than  
> sci-fi:  Tolkien, Le Guin, Robin Hobb, George Martin, Neil Gaiman.   
> Although, to be perfectly honest, my reading time has been very much  
> curtailed over the last few years due to family expansion.  (We just  
> brought our third -- and final -- child into the world about seven  
> months ago.)  I used to pretty regularly read 25-30 novels a year.   
> These days it seems like I'm doing well if I manage 4-5.  Coinciding  
> with that, I haven't been much a regular contributor lately,  
> although I was a pretty active participant for a good couple of  
> years.  I still try to keep up with the read the mailing list, though.
>
> Charles
>
> P.S.  Don't know how to help you the text trailing off the page.  I  
> read the Urth mailing list on my mail program (Thunderbird) and  
> haven't experienced that problem.
>
>
>
> Oliver Wakefield wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>>
>> In my first email on this list my text trailed off the end of the  
>> page - is there anyway to keep the text within the window - sorry  
>> ive never used a mailing list before.
>>
>> Also, as this list seems to be the largest wolfe source on the net  
>> I was wondering who the contributers are. Congratulations to all  
>> involved by the way. I am just wondering which of you are sci-fi  
>> fans and which are general readers. Also where are you from? Im  
>> from the UK and ive only met one person whos read BOTN and this  
>> person someone who writes on sci fi. Is Wolfe bigger in the US, i'm  
>> imagining this list is primarily US?
>>
>>
>> Thanks Ollie W
>>
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Best,
Lane




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