Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:23:06 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>, <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: New list (was Re: This list is... )
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 2/12/2006 03:43 PM, Michael Walsh wrote:
> > kfl at KeithLynch.net 2/12/2006 2:17:02 PM >
>
>I believe one of the resaons for relocating the official WSFA "chat
>list" was that you were no longer a WSFAn.

Yes, that was given as the reason, but it doesn't make much sense.  Yahoo
isn't a WSFAn either, so the change made didn't alter the situation in a
way that corrected that "problem".  Had we moved the list to, say, Steve
Smith's machines, with him handling the work, that theory might fly, but we
didn't.

>That said, not being at the meeting where the Yahoo thing came about, I
>would atleast like to think that WSFA going to Yahoo was not because of
>Yahoo's connection to PRC, but for other reasons.

I'm sure that wasn't the reason, though I wasn't there either.  I heard
later that it was Ernest's decision, and the quorum present approved
it...probably without thinking about it more than most WSFA decisions are
thought about by the assembled membership.  Thinking and researching isn't
much fun, and if the folks holding offices say something is best, few will
argue about it, and most will just second it so they can get done with the
business.  If it turns out to be a mistake, it can be raised again
later.  That's my experience of the way things work anyway.

>I think there seem to
>be some WSFAns who really like to use HTML in their emails and top post
>too.  One of those religious things, I guess.  So it goes.

Yeah, there are.  Even when they don't use HTML, they still like MIME so
they can use Rich Text, or pictures or whatever.  Doesn't add anything IMO,
and often makes the messages hard, or impossible, to read.  I usually just
delete them, and if I find myself doing too much of that, I drop out of the
forum and go do something more interesting.  See my article in the recent
WSFA Journal about e-mail and lowest common denominators.  I'm working on
part 2 now.  That will be about what options we have, and what's good and
bad about each of them.

-- Mike B.
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Life is too confusing for novices.  We should let the experts take care of it.