Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:09:11 -0500 (EST) From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> To: WSFA Members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] This list is 47 months old today Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> This list, intended for the use of past and present members of the Washington Science Fiction Association, is 3 years 11 months (47 months) old today. This list is no longer an official WSFA project. In a sense, it never was, since it was established and run only by me, and only on my personal domain, KeithLynch.net. Once we moved the club's official website, WSFA.org, to an ISP that supported email addresses, I caused WSFAlist at WSFA.org to be an alternative address for this list. For the moment I think it still is, but it's deprecated, and may cease working at any time, depending on WSFA's new webmaster. Please only use the WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net address. I have resigned all my WSFA offices, my WSFA membership has expired, and I don't plan to renew it or to attend any more meetings. But I do plan to continue to maintain this list as long as anyone cares to keep using it. Since it's always been equally open to past and present WSFAns, there's no reason it can't be run by a past WSFAn. Archives of this list are at http://KeithLynch.net/wsfa/list/. At the moment they're fully up to date. (The archives at http://www.wsfa.org/list/ are more than a month out of date.) 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.) (In addition to bringing the archives up to date this evening, I unstuck a week-old message that was stuck in the queue. I apologize for not checking more often, but it's been over a year since the last time a message got stuck.) 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. 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 this monthly message for over a year.] 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. Please don't post more than one or two paragraphs from any copyrighted source. Instead, please just post the URL. Thanks. 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 about once 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 63 people have posted 10,741 messages to the list, an average of 8 per day. 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 averaged 12, 4, 6, and 9 messages per day respectively. 2006 has averaged 10 messages a day so far. There are currently 47 subscribers, including eight of the ten officers. In the past two months, Elaine Brennan and Eva Whitley have subscribed, Candy Madigan has re-subscribed, Colleen Cahill changed email address, and Adrienne Ertman, Nicki Lynch, Mike Pederson, and Elizabeth Twitchell have unsubscribed. 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 496 omni at omniphile.com Drew Bittner 101 drewbitt at yahoo.com Elaine Brennan 0 elaine.brennan at worldnet.att.net Colleen Cahill 93 sffreviews at yahoo.com Jack Chalker (RIP) 13 (jchalker at miragepress.com) Chuck Divine 43 (chuck.divine at att.net) Dick Eney 191 dicconf at radix.net Adrienne Ertman 18 (ase at wam.umd.edu) E.C. (Stan) Field 53 ecfield at comcast.net Mark Fischer 102 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 180 dalek_cag at yahoo.com Tamara Griesel 1 tamaragale at comcast.net Sally Hand 36 sallyhand at excite.com Paul Haggerty 26 paul.haggerty at noaa.gov Tom Haughey 45 thaughey at acnet.net Karey & Bill Herriman 26 herrimank at verizon.net Scott Hofmann 29 shofmann at mindspring.com Eric Jablow 108 ejablow at cox.net Ron Kean 373 ronkean at juno.com Liza Kessler 22 (LKessler at lharris.com) Jim Kling 60 (jkling at nasw.org) Elspeth Kovar 400 ekovar at worldnet.att.net Bill Lawhorn 81 Lawhorn_W at bls.gov Ernest Lilley 290 elilley at mindspring.com Samuel Lubell 304 samlubell at verizon.net Keith Lynch 1133 kfl at KeithLynch.net Nicki Lynch 173 (sfbookfan at yahoo.com) Rich Lynch 167 rw_lynch at yahoo.com Wade Lynch 10 wsl1 at erols.com Bob MacIntosh 64 macbuccfo at email.msn.com Candy Madigan 321 candymadigan at mindspring.com Keith Marshall 4 (kwm at presortmail.com) Kit Mason 78 (kit at hers.com) Deidre McLaughlin 6 dcmcl333 at yahoo.com Cat Meier 6 (FairestCat at techemail.com) Walter Miles 44 walter at nova.org Mike Nelson 50 mike.nelson at seahunt.org Barry Newton 375 bnewton at ashcomp.com Judy Newton 28 jnewton at nist.gov Meridel Newton 16 meridel at ashcomp.com Neil Ottenstein 48 nottenst at yahoo.com Kathi Overton 15 kathi at bungalow.org Mike Pederson 76 (mike at nthzine.com) Larry Pfeffer 6 larry_pfeffer at verizon.net Sam Pierce 41 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 371 sgs at aginc.net Bill Squire 0 WilliamLSquire at yahoo.com Steve Stiles 12 swstiles at comcast.net Lee Strong 630 (StrongL at sddc.army.mil) Gayle Surrette 39 davinci at chesapeake.net Jim Toth 7 jjtoth at vcu.edu Elizabeth Twitchell 68 (elizceleste at mindspring.com) S.J. Vaughan-Nichols 7 sjvn01 at gmail.com Michael Walsh 2138 mjw at press.jhu.edu Ted White 828 twhite8 at cox.net Eva Whitley 0 eva.whitley at gmail.com Jan Wiles 2 (jwiles at cox.rr.com) Andrew Williams 1 (andrewms at capaccess.org) Ivy Yap 38 yapivy at yahoo.com Madeleine Yeh 133 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. (I missed last month, due to Philcon.)