Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:18:42 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Not the regular monthly announcement
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Well, If I was one of the culprits, I can tell you why I didn't clean up
and resend my message.  Because I didn't know my mail had been
blocked.  And if I wasn't, then obviously this doesn't apply to me.

At 11:12 PM 12/12/2005, you wrote:
>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.

Candy
(301)345-6635