Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:04:33 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Email issues...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> kfl at KeithLynch.net 12/19/2006 10:14:47 PM >>>
>"Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu> wrote:
>> Over the last month or so there have been a variety of email issues
>> here at JHU Press and with the campus servers.  The details for
>too
>> geeky - and except for a handful of folks - and probably dreadfully
>> boring to detail.
>
>Are they fixed now?  If not, you may want to stop using that as the
>address on your From: line, since if you do people *will* reply to
it,
>even if you ask them not to.

To the best of knowledge, yes.  Screwed up email issues are not a
welcome feature here at the JHU Press.  If for no other reasons it
causes pesky authors to actually pick up the phone and bother us...

>> The funky addressing is due to the WSFA Yahoo group being
>publickly
>> accessible and having a fear of spam spiders harvesting that
>> address.
>
>Why do you post to it?  The WSFA wars are over.  The good guys
>won.
>The Yahoo group might as well be shut down now.

There are a few folks - and no, I don't recall how many - who are on
only the Yahoo list (and conversely, a few only on the Original List).
So be it.  I have no problem posting my "entertainments" and other stuff
to both lists.  Some folks reply only from Yahoo or Original, some reply
to both.  For those who reply only to one list, I confine my responses
to whatever list they've responded to, since that seems the right thing
to do. (Yes, I am making an assumption that folks are making a
conscience decision and it's not some aspect of their email reader.)

But as for closing the Yahoo group... oh no, let us not.  It's quite
useful.

Useful? you ask.

Yes... because the WSFA Yahoo Group is a publicly accessible group,
ANYONE can read the messages.  So... should anyone ask a WSFAn about the
5 page Screed and rather then trying to explain all of the
inconsistencies, one can just direct folks to the WSFA Yahoo Group and
tell them to do a search for the word "enigmatic" and lo! there is Cathy
Green's response in all of it's delightful cold lawyer like prose
deconstruction all what Alexis wrote about her.

I should note that I have no problem with the WSFA Yahoo Group being
publicly accessible.  I do appreciate the concerns that people have over
Yahoo's kowtowing to the mainland Chinese gov't.

mjw