Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 00:43:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> To: leeandalexis at hotmail.com Cc: bwsmof at bwsmof.org, WSFAlist at WSFA.org Subject: [WSFA] IMPORTANT CORRECTION: Re: Keith's father Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> > Keith and Wade Lynch's father has died, Yes, unfortunately. I announced this at the WSFA meeting two weeks ago, and in the October WSFA Journal, and, most recently, in rasff. > and Keith will be offline for a few days. No. I will not be posting to *rasff* for a few days. Mostly so that I can get the latest WSFA meeting minutes done, and because of a recent flood in my apartment, and because of my job search, and because of (ironically enough) a meeting of the Life Extension Society about 13 hours from now, another organization of which I am secretary. Not to mention a PRSFS picnic today which it took me three hours to get to, and three hours to get back from, due to *severe* problems and delays on several different Metrorail lines. And Tuesday's WSFA movie event, unless I decide to blow it off because Metro's level of service has become almost intolerably bad. So I'd rather not be posting to BWSMOF or WSFAlist at close to one in the morning, except that I have to make an important correction: > The e-mail I have for Keith is wsfa0409c at keithlynch.net . Sigh. No. That was my *previous* disposable address, already discontinued. It was found in only one place: the web page http://www.wsfa.org/email.htm. On that web page I say: This address is subject to change with 24 hours' notice. So please don't add it to your address book if you don't intend to email us immediately. Instead, bookmark this web page, and return to it whenever you want to email us. Please tell me how I could have phrased this more clearly. Thanks. I also explained this in the latest (October) WSFA Journal. If it's unclear, please tell me how I could have phrased it better, and I will try again in next month's WSFA Journal. Thank you. I apologize for the necessity of this, but, as I explained in the WSFA Journal and elsewhere, ordinary spam filtering became useless once my spam volume started being measurable, not in millions of junk messages, but in tens of millions. Blocking 99.9% of them was nowhere near good enough, and I couldn't make my filters any better. Also, I replaced "WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net" with "WSFAlist at WSFA.org" six months ago. I did reluctantly bring back "WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net" as an alias, since it's clear that some people won't update their address books before the heat death of the universe. Everyone on WSFAlist is on my whitelist anyway, as are all other WSFA members, meaning that I'll get anything any of them sends me, even on an obsolete address like wsfa0409c at keithlynch.net. But that address should NOT be spread around, since email to it from people not on my whitelist will be silently discarded unread. Spread "http://www.wsfa.org/email.htm" instead. Thank you. I don't know if this message will appear on BWSMOF, as I'm not a subscriber. If it doesn't, would someone (Elspeth?) please forward it there, then tell me you've done so? Thanks. Most BWSMOF members are probably on my whitelist. But if anyone who isn't sent to that bad address, I didn't see the message. Please re-send it, and please make sure that bad address is deleted from any and all address books. Thanks. It would be super-ideal if some kind person would send me a list of names and email addresses of people who have posted to BWSMOF, so I can add all of them to my whitelist. Yes, I am absolutely certain spammers can't harvest it, so there's no harm to being in it. It already includes all members of WSFA, PRSFS, and everyone with whom I have exchanged email or Usenet newsgroup postings in the past several years, everyone in John Lorentz's fannish email directory, everyone in the Fan Gallery that's displayed at Worldcons, and about ten thousand other people. I apologize for any offense which this message may have caused, but I wanted to get the correction out as quickly as possible.