Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 20:19:03 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.att.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: This list is fifteen months old today
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

At 01:03 AM 05/11/2003, Keith F. Lynch wrote:

>This list, intended for the use of past and present members of the
>Washington Science Fiction Association, is fifteen months old today.
>
>To help keep mailboxes from overflowing, and to keep from stuffing
>everyone's mailboxes with multiple copies of the same stuff over and
>over again, please don't include more of the message you're replying
>to than is necessary to establish context.  Recent messages have often
>contained ALL of the message they were replying to, which in turn
>contained ALL of the message THAT message was replying to, several
>levels deep!  No matter how wonderful a message is, nobody wants to
>get multiple copies of it.  Thank you.
>
>Please inform me before your email address goes away.  Please make
>sure your mailbox doesn't overflow and bounce messages back at me.
>Please temporarily unsubscribe if you're going to be offline for a
>long time.  Thank you.
>
>Also, please don't post more than one or two paragraphs from any
>copyrighted source.  Instead, please just post the URL.  Thanks.
>
>Archives of this list are at http://www.wsfa.org/list/, mirrored at
>http://keithlynch.net/wsfa/list/.  Please do not link any public web
>pages to these archives, or mention them, or the email address of
>this list, on any other mailing list or any newsgroup.  Please do not
>forward messages sent to this list to anyone except past and present
>WSFA members without the permission of the sender.  (You're welcome
>to mention the *existence* of this list to anyone.)
>
>HTML messages and messages with attachments cannot be posted to the
>list, for several reasons, including the fact that they can convey
>viruses and web bugs, which can reveal your private information
>to others.  If your mailer defaults to sending HTML, please see
>http://www.expita.com/nomime.html for instructions on how to turn it
>off.  I suggest you turn it off for everyone, since more and more
>people are deleting all such email unread.
>
>Any past or present WSFA member can:
>
>* Subscribe to this list.
>* Post to this list, even if they're not subscribed.  And can do so
>   from any email addresss.
>* Read messages in the archives.
>
>Please don't post anything that you don't want to be seen by all WSFA
>members, now and in the future.  But don't assume that what you post
>here will be seen by all WSFA members, or by any one of them in
>particular.
>
>Please don't CC any messages to non-subscribers without a good reason
>for each one.  WSFAns who aren't subscribed to the list do not wish to
>receive email meant for all WSFAns.
>
>This is a very low budget operation.  Obviously, a WSFA.ORG email
>address would have been nicer, than a KEITHLYNCH.NET address, but
>WSFA.ORG only serves static web pages.
>
>KEITHLYNCH.NET is hosted by PLETHORA.NET in Minnesota.  This domain
>has the advantage that I "own" every possible email address on it, so
>I can simply decide that "WSFAlist" will go to the list.  But the list
>itself is actually running on PANIX.COM in New York.
>
>It will be up to our secretary which messages to print in the WSFA
>Journal.  If you don't want a particular message printed in the WSFA
>Journal, please say so in the message.  (We may want to change this
>policy, so that our secretary can only reprint a message with explicit
>permission from the sender.  Does anyone care one way or the other?
>Is anyone even reading this?  I didn't think so.)

Yes.

Elspeth