From: "Michael Nelson" <mike.nelson at seahunt.org>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Worldcon & Capclave
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:10:29 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry L. Newton [mailto:bnewton at ashcomp.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 10:09 AM
> To: WSFA members
> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Worldcon & Capclave
>
> Uncharacteristically, Barry L. Newton wrote:
> >The thing is done.  The year is 2005.  The technology is standard.
> >There is no point in wasting time to do it over.  Let's move on.
>
> This was probably a little more testy than I generally prefer
> to be.  I am not interested in excluding anyone from this
> group, regardless of preferences over technology or privacy.
> But by the time the discussion came up, I had already
> invested a fair amount of work, the setup had been installed
> for two weeks, and most of the people from the February
> Capclave meeting had already joined.  Keith didn't see his
> invitation because it came as HTML mail.
>
> I've done the following in hopes of making the system useful
> to all interested parties:
>
> 1.  Anyone with internet access may post to:
> capclave at yahoogroups.com.
>
> 2.  There is now a proxy account signed on as a group member.
>  This account will receive all mail as plain text.  Anyone
> wishing to receive plain text mail can contact me and I'll
> add them to the forwarding on this account--which is handled
> outside of Yahoo!.  Yahoo!  will not need to know of your
> existence, except possibly as someone who has sent mail to a Yahoo!
> group.

Thank you, Barry.

I also believe that the services Yahoo provide are worth
agreeing to their terms of service.