Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 14:32:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> To: WSFA Members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> Subject: [WSFA] This list is 31 months old today Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> This list, intended for the use of past and present members of the Washington Science Fiction Association, is 31 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. 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. The addresses WSFAlist at WSFA.org and WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net go to the same list. The WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net address is left over from the bad old days before we had at WSFA.org email addresses. I've left it active since I know that some people won't get around to updating their address books until the end of time. I had disabled it briefly to prevent duplicate messages when people kept unaccountably CCing the same message to both addresses, but I've since found a different way to prevent duplicates, so you can send to either or both addresses and it should do the right thing. 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/. 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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 address. * Read messages in the archives, even if they're not subscribed. 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. 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 I plan to write another article partly about this list in this month's (September 04's) Journal. 51 people have posted 6334 messages to the list, an average of 7 per day. The average for August was 8 messages a day, and for September 4 messages per day so far. The average for 2004 as a whole has been 5 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 40 subscribers. Since last month nobody has subscribed or 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 31 elizceleste at mindspring.com Jack Chalker 5 jchalker at miragepress.com Chuck Divine 20 chuck.divine at att.net Dick Eney 13 dicconf at radix.net Adrienne Ertman 14 ase at wam.umd.edu E.C. (Stan) Field 17 ecfield at comcast.net Carolyn Frank 1 (smartcat1917 at netscape.net) Lee Gilliland 364 (leeandalexis at hotmail.com) Erica Ginter 301 eginter at klgai.com Cathy Green 100 dalek_cag at yahoo.com Sally Hand 29 sallyhand at excite.com Tom Haughey 9 thaughey at acnet.net Karey & Bill Herriman 13 herrimank at verizon.net Scott Hofmann 22 shofmann at mindspring.com Eric Jablow 63 ejablow at cox.net Ron Kean 339 ronkean at juno.com Liza Kessler 22 (LKessler at lharris.com) Jim Kling 32 jkling at nasw.org Elspeth Kovar 209 ekovar at worldnet.att.net Bill Lawhorn 35 Lawhorn_W at bls.gov Ernest Lilley 57 elilley at mindspring.com Samuel Lubell 197 samlubell at verizon.net Keith Lynch 758 kfl at KeithLynch.net Nicki Lynch 115 sfbookfan at yahoo.com Rich Lynch 114 rw_lynch at yahoo.com Wade Lynch 10 wsl1 at erols.com Bob MacIntosh 14 macbuccfo at email.msn.com Candy Madigan 205 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 31 walter at nova.org Michael Nelson 3 (nelson_mr at yahoo.com) Barry Newton 232 bnewton at ashcomp.com Judy Newton 18 jnewton at nist.gov Meridel Newton 13 meridel at ashcomp.com Neil Ottenstein 8 nottenst at yahoo.com Larry Pfeffer 6 pfeffer at codon.nih.gov Sam Pierce 19 scpierce at alum.mit.edu John Pomeranz 3 (john at bungalow.org) Rebecca Prather 13 (prather at netzero.net) Emily Richter 0 mgscifi at aol.com Steve Smith 300 sgs at aginc.net Bill Squire 0 (billesquire at yahoo.com) Lee Strong 622 StrongL at sddc.army.mil Jim Toth 7 jjtoth at vcu.edu Michael Walsh 1337 mjw at press.jhu.edu Ted White 472 twhite8 at cox.net Jan Wiles 2 (jwiles at cox.rr.com) Andrew Williams 1 (andrewms at capaccess.org) Ivy Yap 37 yapivy at techemail.com Madeleine Yeh 15 myeh at wap.org 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.