How list works and questions to mailers

Adam Thornton · 11 May 2008, 22:58 · from 2008-May.txt.gz

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From: adam at io.com (Adam Thornton)
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 17:58:26 -0500
Subject: (urth) How list works and questions to mailers
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On May 11, 2008, at 5:07 PM, Matthew Groves wrote:

> Just had to say hello to a fellow St. Louisan.  "Where'd you go to
> high school?" and all that.  Go Cards.
>
> I became a sf fan in high school, with Robert A. Heinlein.  I credit
> his influence for my increasingly libertarian leanings.  Since high
> school there has been a long time when I didn't read any fantasy or
> sf.  Then I discovered Wolfe quite by accident and became a devoted
> fan.  It's a shame he isn't better known, but he's an ambitious writer
> and demands a great deal from the reader.

Well, I grew up outside of Atlanta.  So "Westminster" won't help you  
much, I'm afraid.  I only moved to St. Louis in 2000.  Do you still  
live here?

I grew up on Heinlein too.  Libertarianism didn't stick, but the idea  
that a person *ought* to be competent at a broad range of things  
certainly did.

Adam

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