Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:37:10 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.att.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The October 2004 WSFA Journal is available online
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 02:22 AM 9/27/04, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>The October 2004 WSFA Journal is available on the WSFA web site at
>http://www.wsfa.org/journal/j04/a/
>and on the WSFA mirror web site at
>http://keithlynch.net/wsfa/journal/j04/a/

A couple of notes on the current Journal:

- I like the fact that you're including the calender of upcoming events but
am interested in why you've chosen to put it on the first page or so of the
Journal.

- In your article titled WSFA Email Lists you say

"Colleen Cahill maintains a list of members' email addresses, street
addresses, and phone numbers, intended for one-on-one communication. This
list is not available on the web, but Colleen will email it to any WSFA
member who wants it. Please use her list only for one-on-one
communications. People who aren't subscribed to the chat list presumably
don't want messages intended for all WSFAns."

The last is an editorial comment in what appears to be intended as a
factual article -- and you contradict it earlier in the article.

- In the minutes under Capclave '04 you write "Lee said we have sold 77
memberships, which puts us ahead of where we were this time last year.
[It's not clear whether this is adjusted for the fact that Capclave was a
month later last year.]"  I'm fairly certain that she didn't mean 'on this
calender date last year' but 'at this time before the convention last year'
but I could have misinterpreted her.

- An early part of your article about exploring the solar system left me
mighty confused until I got to the bottom of that section, as it said,

"TO SUN
88 ½ YEARS
Start now and you would not get there till after 2000 A.D. Yet light gets
here from the sun in eight and a third minutes"

I'll leave it as an exercise to other readers to figure out what crucial
bit I missed!  It's an excellent article.

- The This Month In History section is a really neat addition!  And while I
know that Ernest's interview with Gayle Surrette wasn't what you were
thinking of I like the idea of interviews with various WSFAns, especially
new people.  Perhaps it could be done as well as a WSFA Fan Gallery?  Or
Ernest could extract the information for a fan gallery entry while doing
the interview?  Meanwhile, thanks for the report on First Night with the
clip from the Globe.  I didn't have a chance to do more than glance at the
article in the paper and appreciate it.

All in all, it's a very good issue, not to mention well written and put
together.

Elspeth