Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 03:02:05 -0500 (EST) From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> To: WSFA Members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] This list is 25 months old today Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> This list, intended for the use of past and present members of the Washington Science Fiction Association, is 25 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. 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. 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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. (This will change in the near future, as WSFA.ORG moves to Panix, as was approved at the last meeting.) 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 is 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?) Subscribes, unsubscribes, and archive updates are handled manually. Usually within a day. Except archive updates, which are usually once or twice a week. Also see the article about this list in February 2003's WSFA Journal, at http://www.wsfa.org/journal/j03/2/index.htm#elsb mirrored at http://keithlynch.net/wsfa/journal/j03/2/index.htm#elsb 45 people have posted 5315 messages to the list, an average of 7 per day. The average for February was 3 messages a day, and for March 8 messages per day so far. The average for 2003 as a whole was 4 messages per day. The average for 2002 as a whole was 12 messages per day. There are currently 36 subscribers. Since last month, Karey & Bill Herriman have subscribed, Sam changed his address to samlubell at verizon.net, and nobody has unsubscribed. Here are all the past and present subscribers and senders, along with the number of messages they have sent and their email address. The email address shown is the one they receive postings on. All past and present WSFA members (including non-subscribers) can post to the list from any email address. Email addresses in parentheses are the address a non-subscriber last posted from, or a former subscriber last subscribed from, and may no longer be valid addresses. Colleen Cahill 1 (ccah at earthlink.net) Elizabeth Celeste 26 elizceleste at mindspring.com Jack Chalker 0 jchalker at miragepress.com Adrienne Ertman 7 ase at wam.umd.edu E.C. (Stan) Field 3 ecfield at comcast.net Carolyn Frank 1 (smartcat1917 at netscape.net) Lee Gilliland 346 (leeandalexis at hotmail.com) Erica Ginter 283 eginter at klgai.com Cathy Green 90 dalek_cag at yahoo.com Sally Hand 28 sallyhand at excite.com Tom Haughey 5 thaughey at acnet.net Karey & Bill Herriman 0 herrimank at mindspring.com Scott Hofmann 19 shofmann at mindspring.com Eric Jablow 56 ejablow at cox.net Ron Kean 318 ronkean at juno.com Liza Kessler 22 (LKessler at lharris.com) Jim Kling 3 jkling at nasw.org Elspeth Kovar 172 ekovar at worldnet.att.net Bill Lawhorn 31 Lawhorn_W at bls.gov Samuel Lubell 165 samlubell at verizon.net Keith Lynch 596 kfl at KeithLynch.net Nicki Lynch 85 sfbookfan at yahoo.com Rich Lynch 101 rw_lynch at yahoo.com Wade Lynch 7 wsl1 at erols.com Bob MacIntosh 4 (macbuccfo at email.msn.com) Candy Madigan 191 candymadigan at mindspring.com Keith Marshall 4 (kwm at presortmail.com) Kit Mason 78 (kit at hers.com) Cat Meier 1 (FairestCat at hotmail.com) Walter Miles 23 walter at nova.org Michael Nelson 3 (nelson_mr at yahoo.com) Barry Newton 188 bnewton at ashcomp.com Judy Newton 10 jnewton at nist.gov Meridel Newton 12 meridel at ashcomp.com Neil Ottenstein 2 nottenst at yahoo.com Larry Pfeffer 2 pfeffer at codon.nih.gov Sam Pierce 8 scpierce at alum.mit.edu John Pomeranz 1 (john at bungalow.org) Rebecca Prather 13 (prather at netzero.net) Emily Richter 0 mgscifi at aol.com Steve Smith 271 sgs at aginc.net Bill Squire 0 (billesquire at yahoo.com) Lee Strong 595 StrongL at sddc.army.mil Jim Toth 7 jjtoth at vcu.edu Michael Walsh 1120 MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu Ted White 373 twhite8 at cox.net Jan Wiles 2 (jwiles at cox.rr.com) Andrew Williams 1 (andrewms at capaccess.org) Ivy Yap 29 yapivy at techemail.com Elizabeth Celeste is also known as Elizabeth Twitchell. Meridel Newton is also known as Weyrlady. Walter Miles is also known as Befuddled, Ghashklabber of Thurhthnoothgreep-vania, Lobot, Standardized Tester of..., Princess Panorama Punchdrunk Pitchapupt, Professor Thurlow Piddler, Ringostino the Chitinous, Sputar of Vobarlia, Testing, The Hell Driver, and Trazodone, Brother of Dimetridon. Please tell me anything else which you think should have been in this message, which I post every month. Thanks. -- Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/ Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.