Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 10:25:17 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: "Barry L. Newton" <bnewton at ashcomp.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Livejournal
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Interestingly, Ted White said:
>Keith's sole problem is that he checks things out on the web and makes
>interesting cross-connections.   For this he has been excoriated, the last
>time by someone who objected to his reading something about her on Rich
>Lynch's website!   (Rich has dropped the "offending" material from his
>actively-maintained website, but an earlier, 'ghost' version remains up and
>accessable and unchanged.)
>
>There's all sorts of stuff out there on the www.   People who object to
>their webwritings becoming known to their friends and associates are living
>in Nevernever Land.

I tend to agree here, except perhaps that the "problem" was not the making
of cross-connections, but the impulse to share them.  It's a shame that
folks got so upset--I'll particularly miss Kit, and hope she at least
continues to get to WSFA night dinners in Gburg.

The occasional flap on a mailing list is, to my way of thinking, part of
the cost of doing business.  Ain't nobody else here going to expend the
level of effort that Keith does in running the list and website, and
keeping them from doing serious harm by spreading malicious code.

Let's move on.

Barry