Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 00:59:17 -0400 (EDT) From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> To: WSFA Members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> Subject: [WSFA] This list is 38 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 38 months (three years and two 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. Also, please don't forward "PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW" messages without first personally confirming that the message is both accurate and timely. Remember, it's your own reputation on the line. Personal attacks against WSFA members or list members are not allowed. Please keep in mind that there are no tone-of-voice or body language cues in email, so messages can often appear much blunter than they were intended. Please interpret messages in the best light possible, and before sending a message please write it as if it might be read in the worst light possible. Never post while angry. 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. 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/. Please do not link any public web pages to these archives, or mention them, or the email address of this list, on any other mailing list or any newsgroup. Please do not forward messages sent to this list to anyone except past and present WSFA members without the permission of the sender. (You're welcome to mention the *existence* of this list to anyone.) HTML messages and messages with attachments cannot be posted to the list, for several reasons, including the fact that they can convey viruses and web bugs, which can reveal your private information to others. If your mailer defaults to sending HTML, please see http://www.expita.com/nomime.html for instructions on how to turn it off. I suggest you turn it off for everyone, since more and more people are deleting all such email unread. (The August 2003 Consumer Reports magazine is one of many sources that recommends deleting HTML email unread to cut down on spam.) 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 the October 2004 WSFA Journal, at http://www.wsfa.org/journal/j04/a/index.htm#wel mirrored at http://keithlynch.net/wsfa/journal/j04/a/index.htm#wel 59 people have posted 8237 messages to the list, an average of 7 per day. 2002, 2003, and 2004 averaged 12, 4, and 6 messages per day respectively. The average for March 2005 was 19 messages a day, and for April 2005 7 messages per day so far. There are currently 49 subscribers, including all nine officers. Since last month Mike Nelson (mike.nelson at seahunt.org) has subscribed, and nobody has unsubscribed or changed address. 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. Mike Bartman 108 omni at omniphile.com Drew Bittner 1 drewbitt at yahoo.com Colleen Cahill 63 ccah at earthlink.net Jack Chalker 13 (jchalker at miragepress.com) Chuck Divine 37 chuck.divine at att.net Dick Eney 59 dicconf at radix.net Adrienne Ertman 15 ase at wam.umd.edu E.C. (Stan) Field 38 ecfield at comcast.net Mark Fischer 46 marklfischer at aol.com Carolyn Frank 1 (smartcat1917 at netscape.net) Lee Gilliland 370 (leeandalexis at hotmail.com) Erica Ginter 309 eginter at klgai.com Cathy Green 137 dalek_cag at yahoo.com Sally Hand 34 sallyhand at excite.com Paul Haggerty 7 paul.haggerty at noaa.gov Tom Haughey 18 thaughey at acnet.net Karey & Bill Herriman 20 herrimank at verizon.net Scott Hofmann 25 shofmann at mindspring.com Eric Jablow 90 ejablow at cox.net Ron Kean 358 ronkean at juno.com Liza Kessler 22 (LKessler at lharris.com) Jim Kling 60 (jkling at nasw.org) Elspeth Kovar 283 ekovar at worldnet.att.net Bill Lawhorn 65 Lawhorn_W at bls.gov Ernest Lilley 172 elilley at mindspring.com Samuel Lubell 242 samlubell at verizon.net Keith Lynch 948 kfl at KeithLynch.net Nicki Lynch 134 sfbookfan at yahoo.com Rich Lynch 142 rw_lynch at yahoo.com Wade Lynch 10 wsl1 at erols.com Bob MacIntosh 32 macbuccfo at email.msn.com Candy Madigan 228 candymadigan at mindspring.com Keith Marshall 4 (kwm at presortmail.com) Kit Mason 78 (kit at hers.com) Cat Meier 6 FairestCat at techemail.com Walter Miles 38 walter at nova.org Mike Nelson 9 mike.nelson at seahunt.org Barry Newton 302 bnewton at ashcomp.com Judy Newton 25 jnewton at nist.gov Meridel Newton 15 meridel at ashcomp.com Neil Ottenstein 23 nottenst at yahoo.com Kathi Overton 9 kathi at bungalow.org Mike Pederson 50 mike at nthzine.com Larry Pfeffer 6 larry_pfeffer at verizon.net Sam Pierce 32 scpierce at alum.mit.edu John Pomeranz 3 (john at bungalow.org) Rebecca Prather 18 (prather at netzero.net) Emily Richter 0 mgscifi at aol.com Peggy Rae Sapienza 1 (peggyraes at comcast.net) Steve Smith 339 sgs at aginc.net Bill Squire 0 WilliamLSquire at yahoo.com Lee Strong 630 (StrongL at sddc.army.mil) Gayle Surrette 22 gayle.surrette at noaa.gov, davinci at chesapeake.net Jim Toth 7 jjtoth at vcu.edu Elizabeth Twitchell 52 elizceleste at mindspring.com Michael Walsh 1714 mjw at press.jhu.edu Ted White 649 twhite8 at cox.net Jan Wiles 2 (jwiles at cox.rr.com) Andrew Williams 1 (andrewms at capaccess.org) Ivy Yap 38 yapivy at yahoo.com Madeleine Yeh 77 myeh at wap.org Elizabeth Twitchell is also known as Elizabeth Celeste. 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. Also note that there's one address with two people, and one person with two addresses. Please tell me anything else which you think should have been in this message, which I post every month. Thanks.