Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:48:25 -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>

> omni at omniphile.com 12/20/2006 11:06:10 PM >>>
>At 12/20/2006 09:55 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>
>> > 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.
>>
>>And those who are only on this list never saw her message at all.
>
>Me, for one.

Go to

In the search box put this word: enigmatic.

Hit search.

Read the only matched response.

>> > The purported reason for the change was to have the "official"
WSFA
>> > list on a system that WSFA controlled, and since you'd left WSFA
>> > having you host it didn't fit that requirement any longer.  I'm
>> > still puzzled as to how Yahoo is better, since Yahoo isn't a WSFA
>> > member either, and specifically prohibits use of their mailing
>> > list/forums for "corporate" purposes (isn't WSFA incorporated and
>> > therefore inelligigble?) but whatever.
>>
>>I think the real reason was, after the Gilliland had stuck a knife
>>into me, to give the knife a twist.
>
>If memory serves, the one who set up the Yahoo list was Ernest,
>during his brief stint as Secretary.  I don't believe he asked anyone

>about it, but I may well have missed it if he did.  My impression is
>that he set it up on his own, then told the club about it, and at
>some point later, after a few folks were on it, the club made it
>official.  At Ernest's request, and after I voiced disapproval of the

>Yahoo option, I wrote a two part article for the Journal about what
>options we had, and what I saw as the benefits and downsides of each
of them.

With the club responding with... nothing.

Look, in many ways, fans are rather conservative folks: Please Don't
Chance What I'm Use To.

mjw