Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 11:49:38 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Thanks Keith!
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> kfl at KeithLynch.net 3/6/2005 1:48:51 AM >>>
>"Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd also like to thank Keith for being so efficient and quick at
>> adding me to the list...I only gave him my address Friday night
>> (almost Saturday morning)!
>
>You're welcome.  That's one advantage of being on a night schedule.
>I left at 12:20 am, walked ten miles home, and it *still* wasn't my
>bedtime yet, so I caught up on rasff, added you to the list, caught
>up on rasff, started working on the meeting minutes, then caught up
>and rasff.  (Did I mention, in the last WSFA Journal, that rasff is
>a high volume newsgroup?)
>
>> I was also on the attendance checklist Friday, despite only paying
>> the dues thing at the prior meeting...most businesses aren't that
>> efficient and responsive!  Thanks Keith!
>
>I don't keep track of who has paid.  That's the treasurer's job.
>
>I have many years of attendance data, and put lots of thought and
>programming skill into the problem of predicting who is most likely
>to show up at the next meeting.  Each sign-in sheet is different, and
>several hours of CPU time goes into making each one.  It's very rare
>for anyone to show up who is *not* on the attendance sheet, unless
>it's their first meeting ever.  This was the first meeting where this
>happened:  Don Bieniewicz showed up for the first time in over
>fifteen
>years, and was *not* already on the list.  It won't happen again.
>
>Now if you'll excuse me, I have to catch up on rasff.

Has it been busy?

mjw