Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:12:59 -0500 (EST)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Not the regular monthly announcement
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

I should have made the regular monthly announcement yesterday, when
this list was 46 months old.  But I was at Philcon, or on my way home
from it, all day.

Nobody new has subscribed since last month, so everyone here has
already seen the regularly monthly message, which will return next
month.

So I'll just remind everyone that 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.)

I mention this because the last two messages directed at this list
(sent by two different people, both of whom should know better) were
both blocked due to HTML.  One also had an enormous attachment.
Neither sender cleaned up and re-sent their message.