Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 01:53:18 -0400
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Cc: jekindell at aol.com, macbuccfo at msn.com, erjablow at cais.com,
	mike.nelson at seahunt.org
Subject: [WSFA] Re: On Google and WSFA policy
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:

> A discussion at the Ginters' last night made it clear to me that
> we don't have the consensus I thought we did on placing fannish
> information online, searching for it, and viewing it.
>
> [...]
>
> So, what's the consensus?  What should our web policy be?

I think your present web policy is the right one, Keith.  Everything you
said (in the sections I did not quote) struck me as sensible and
correct.   The WSFA list should be a private one, but the WSFA website is
obviously intended for the public/Google.

For what it's worth, I did a Google search recently on my name.  I already
knew that "I" had been Aretha Franklin's (no good) husband in the '60s and
much more recently a quarterback at Howard, but I found "I" was also a
minorly famous filmmaker, and apparently the Howard quarterback is now in
the NFL.

I did find pages "devoted" to the real me, however.  They were mostly
bibliographic and contained lists of my published works, all variously
incomplete (but in different ways).  And all of them consistently got my
middle name wrong -- a mistake I trace back to Donald Tuck.  I found
nothing which *discussed* me or my works, however (which is maybe just as
well).  In addition to a hit on my own, Dr Progresso, site, I found that a
column I'd written for CRY OF THE NAMELESS in the early '60s had been
posted on the fanac.org site.  It was all about my brief career as Jim
Warren's Right Hand Man -- an episode of my life about which I had
forgotten much over the years.  So I was pleased to find and reread the
piece.  I'm glad it's on the web.  It's probably a good idea to do this
periodically, just to keep tabs on what's Out There....

--Ted White