Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:21:14 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Minutes, Requests
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

You can quote me anytime and anywhere about anything, unless I specifically
tell you otherwise.

At 04:56 PM 6/22/2004, you wrote:
>Jim Kling <jkling at nasw.org> wrote:
>
> > It would be far simpler if you just chose which postings you want to
> > reprint and then contact the authors privately.
>
>Yes, except that it had *always* been the policy of this list that:
>
>   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.
>
>as had been announced in the very first message, and in over two dozen
>messages since then, and at more than one WSFA meeting, and in the
>WSFA Journal.  It was only out of a surfeit of caution and courtesy
>that I asked it once more.
>
>I am frankly dismayed that several people who have said I do not have
>their permission.  Not becuase they have denied me permission, but
>because they had never said so before.  Why not?  And what other
>misunderstandings might still be lurking?
>
>At this point I will of course ask permission for reprinting
>individual messages, except from those few who have explicitly given
>me blanket permission.  (Thank you!)  I didn't want to go that route
>since it would mean repeatedly asking a person for persmission if I
>wanted to reprint several articles of theirs on different occasions,
>and since they might not get around to replying between the time I
>ask for permission and the deadline for the upcoming WSFA Journal.
>
>Especially if I attempted to give some flavor in the Journal of a
>*current* discussion thread, by excerpting several consecutive
>messages that had appeared immediately before the Journal went
>to print.
>
>N Lynch <sfbookfan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > It seems to me that the announcements on the WSFAlist are very short
> > time wise and why read about them a month later?
>
>It makes sense that someone wouldn't want to repeatedly re-read
>the same text.  And hence might miss any subtle changes.  But this
>wasn't a subtle change.  It was in the montly message from the very
>beginning.  And if someone had forgotten what the monthly message
>said, then why wouldn't they re-read it?
>
>Actually, I was wondering if I was the only one who had this aversion
>to re-reading the same text.  For one thing, many posters to this list
>quote every single line of the message they're replying to, as if they
>thought we'd all like to see it again just hours after we saw it the
>first time.
>
>For another, the Red Cross asks you to read some text about the same
>size as my montly message every time you donate blood.  Their text
>is mostly unchanged, but sometimes has subtle but important changes,
>which are *not* emphasized, but are hidden amongst the unchanged text.
>(For instance that people who had recently been to Toronto couldn't
>donate for a few weeks.)
>
> > Is the Journal that needy for material?
>
>Actually, yes.  At the moment all I have other than text I wrote
>myself is two short reviews from Colleen.  If Sam's extra large June
>issue left any backlog of submissions to the Journal, he hasn't made
>them available to me.
>
>Since Wade will be helping (since he has a printer, a scanner, and a
>graphical browser), and I only get together with him on weekends, I
>hope to go to print this coming Sunday.
>
>I hope everyone likes to read my writings, since it's looking like the
>July issue will be mostly written by me.

Candy

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