Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 21:17:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at keithlynch.net>
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Stone Ridge book sale
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Barry Newton <bnewton at ashcomp.com> wrote:

> Just for the record, thanks, Keith.  You're doing a hell of a job!

You're welcome.  Thanks for the support.

It was just a little frustrating when Ivy announced the book sale, as
if she didn't know it was already on our web site.  And then Lee asked
for more details, as if she too didn't know it was already on our
web site either, and didn't think to look there.  It makes me wonder
if I'm wasting my time, if nobody is reading it, and if nobody is
submitting events to it.  It's not like http://www.wsfa.org/calendar.htm
hasn't been mentioned on this list.  This is the 21st time that URL has
been mentioned in the two months this list has been active.

Yes, I was unaware of the Arlington County Library used book sale
until the Friday meeting, during which time it was already underway.
I did put the information online as soon as I got home, at about 2 am
on Saturday.  At the same time I put the information online about
Saturday's Capclave hotel walk-through, about Capclave's Guest of
Honor, about Capclave's Artist Guest of Honor, and about our plans to
fold and label Capclave flyers at the next meeting.  (And I went to
both events.  I bought 31 books at the library on Sunday, most of them
hardbacks.)

As for John's maintaining our web site, it was offered to me because
I complained at a meeting that it hadn't been updated in over six
months.  Lee, if I ever go six months without updating it, you have
my permission to bitch at me about it.  Until then, would it be too
much to ask that people keep their criticism constructive?  Thanks.

If there are high-maintenance parts of our web site that people have
no interest in, I could save time by taking them down.  When I put
a WSFA Journal online, and add it to the indexes, I never have to
do anything with it again.  If it only gets one reader per year,
that's fine.  There's a lot of years up ahead.  But when I put an
announcement of a 2 pm event online at 2 am, that's a complete waste
of time if nobody will look at that page in the next twelve hours.

If there are people who look at it every twelve days, but not every
twelve hours, it might be useful for those people if I were to be
told of upcoming events a couple weeks in advance.
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