Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 08:44:35 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The May 2005 WSFA Journal is available online
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> omni at omniphile.com 5/2/2005 12:53:43 AM >>>
>At 11:39 PM 5/1/05 -0400, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>
>>search engines.  (Except for members' current street addresses
>and
>>email addresses, which are snipped.)  Please speak to me (politely)
>>if you have any privacy concerns about this.  Thank you.
>
>I think that the phone numbers should be censored

Gee folks, it's the "Washington" SF Assoc.  Rather than "censored" the
proper word is "redacted".

>out as well as the
>addresses...including the rest of the address that is currently
>included.
>
>I don't know whether the practice of publishing address changes in
>the
>Journal was ended

It was a long tradition tied to the annual Christmas card list.  Now  a
days Colleen Cahil has taken it upon her self to put together that list
and make it avalable via email to WSFAns.

>, or just temporarily discontinued, and I doubt that
>my
>current info is in any of the Journals on-line (though I haven't had
>time
>to read them all and there's no search function to scan through them
>quickly), but it is certainly possible that some past or current
>members
>are still at the addresses that were included in the older editions,
and
>since at the time there was no expectation that these would ever be
>made
>public these people would have had no reason to object to this
>information
>being included...it only went to club members after all.  Today, with

>the
>information being published world-wide, they may very well object
>and I
>don't think we should be doing such publishing without asking
>first...and
>since that isn't practical, just not doing it.
>
>Some of us pay the phone company not to give out our phone
>numbers,

& then there's Google and phone numbers.

mjw