Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:08:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFAlist at WSFA.org, WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Last Call
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

I'll be leaving for Noreascon first thing in the morning, so this is
the last call for anything that should be added to our calendar of
upcoming events.  (If I can get net access at the con, I'll place the
location of our meeting online, but I won't be doing any other website
updates from there.)

I've finally finished placing the '80s WSFA Journals online (and one
issue from the '70s), just about exactly one year after I finished
the '90s and started the '80s.  Wade has finished scanning in all the
Second Series Journals, and I should have the remaining 14 issues up
by the end of October.  After that, we'll start on the First Series,
the Don Miller issues.  (Does anyone have his issue #85 or later?)

But not until we've produced the September issue.  For which more
submissions are needed.  I've got tons of stuff from Lee Strong,
several cartoons from Alexis, and one item from Colleen, but nothing
else that I didn't write myself.  And just two weeks after the
September issue comes out, so will the October issue.

People are continuing to email WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net.  Since these
people clearly won't update their address books before the heat death
of the universe, I've brought back that address, and come up with an
alternate way of avoiding duplicate messages.  If you see two (or
zero) copies of this message, it didn't work.

People are also continuing to send HTML email to the list.  It would
be far more work to try to automatically un-HTML a message, and I
don't plan to do it.  Nobody should ever be sending HTML email to
anyone, except by prearrangement.  Since 99.99% of HTML email is spams
or viruses, and the remaining 00.01% is still an ugly mess of angle
brackets and ampersands, most people and most ISPs delete all such
email unread.  So just don't do it.

After the con I also plan to produce a WSFA Press page, and a list of
all past Fifth Friday locations.  And a DC in 2011 bid page if I can
get a guarantee that someone else won't produce one and ask me to
throw mine away, as happened with SMOFcon.

I'll see most of you Wednesday night, or whenever you arrive, in
Boston.