Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:34:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> To: WSFA Members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> Subject: [WSFA] This list is 44 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 3 years 8 months (44 months) old today. 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. [This text has been in the monthly message for the past year, though not always so near the top.] 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. 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.) The archives are indexed by date and by sender, and also include a list of current subscribers and their email addresses. That list would be useful in reconstructing this list on another platform if I'm run over by the proverbial bus. 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.) PLEASE NOTE that since I am busy with my new full-time job, I no longer round up HTML messages, clean them up, and forward them back to this list, nor do I inform their senders. We're all adults here, and we can clean up after ourselves. If, however, the club would prefer for me to resume this task, I'll do it, but the time for it will come out of time I could have spent making the WSFA website, minutes, and Journal better. I mention this because there have been several HTML messages addressed to the list lately, mostly by long-timers who should know better. And the senders often haven't noticed that they didn't show up, nor did they clean them up and resend them. 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 month. 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 60 people have posted 10,036 messages to the list, an average of 8 per day. 2002, 2003, and 2004 averaged 12, 4, and 6 messages per day respectively. 2005 has averaged 10 messages a day so far. The average for September 2005 was 4 messages a day, and for October 2005, 8 messages per day so far. There are currently 49 subscribers, including nine of the ten officers. Since last month, Tamara Griesel, Lee Gilliland, and Deidre McLaughlin have subscribed, and Lee Gilliland unsubscribed again after being on list for two days. 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 382 omni at omniphile.com Drew Bittner 92 drewbitt at yahoo.com Colleen Cahill 83 ccah at earthlink.net Jack Chalker (RIP) 13 (jchalker at miragepress.com) Chuck Divine 43 (chuck.divine at att.net) Dick Eney 145 dicconf at radix.net Adrienne Ertman 17 ase at wam.umd.edu E.C. (Stan) Field 52 ecfield at comcast.net Mark Fischer 93 marklfischer at aol.com Carolyn Frank 1 (smartcat1917 at netscape.net) Lee Gilliland 382 (leeandalexis at hotmail.com) Erica Ginter 309 eginter at klgai.com Cathy Green 169 dalek_cag at yahoo.com Sally Hand 34 sallyhand at excite.com Paul Haggerty 26 paul.haggerty at noaa.gov Tom Haughey 41 thaughey at acnet.net Karey & Bill Herriman 26 herrimank at verizon.net Scott Hofmann 29 shofmann at mindspring.com Eric Jablow 101 ejablow at cox.net Ron Kean 366 ronkean at juno.com Liza Kessler 22 (LKessler at lharris.com) Jim Kling 60 (jkling at nasw.org) Elspeth Kovar 353 ekovar at worldnet.att.net Bill Lawhorn 76 Lawhorn_W at bls.gov Ernest Lilley 248 elilley at mindspring.com Samuel Lubell 280 samlubell at verizon.net Keith Lynch 1084 kfl at KeithLynch.net Nicki Lynch 164 sfbookfan at yahoo.com Rich Lynch 161 rw_lynch at yahoo.com Wade Lynch 10 wsl1 at erols.com Bob MacIntosh 53 macbuccfo at email.msn.com Candy Madigan 274 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 41 walter at nova.org Mike Nelson 33 mike.nelson at seahunt.org Barry Newton 358 bnewton at ashcomp.com Judy Newton 26 jnewton at nist.gov Meridel Newton 16 meridel at ashcomp.com Neil Ottenstein 44 nottenst at yahoo.com Kathi Overton 13 kathi at bungalow.org Mike Pederson 74 mike at nthzine.com Larry Pfeffer 6 larry_pfeffer at verizon.net Sam Pierce 38 scpierce at alum.mit.edu John Pomeranz 3 (john at bungalow.org) Rebecca Prather 19 (prather at netzero.net) Emily Richter 0 mgscifi at aol.com Peggy Rae Sapienza 1 (peggyraes at comcast.net) Steve Smith 368 sgs at aginc.net Bill Squire 0 WilliamLSquire at yahoo.com Lee Strong 630 (StrongL at sddc.army.mil) Gayle Surrette 33 davinci at chesapeake.net Jim Toth 7 jjtoth at vcu.edu Elizabeth Twitchell 66 elizceleste at mindspring.com S.J. Vaughan-Nichols 7 sjvn01 at gmail.com Michael Walsh 2033 mjw at press.jhu.edu Ted White 782 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 121 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. Please tell me anything else which you think should have been in this message, which I post every month. Thanks.