Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:20:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA Members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] This list is 61 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 61 months (five years and
one month) old today.

I'm placing this next paragraph back near the top because a couple
of you have once again been sending HTML messages to the list, and
apparently not noticing that they're not going through:

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.)

69 people have posted 12,184 messages to the list, an average of 7 per
day.  2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 averaged 12, 4, 6, 9, and 4
messages per day, respectively.  2007 has averaged 3 messages per day
so far.

There are currently 50 subscribers, including eight of the ten
officers.  In the past month nobody has changed email address,
subscribed, or 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.

Last post
03/07/02 Carolyn Frank          1   (smartcat1917 at netscape.net)
03/17/02 Jan Wiles              2   (jwiles at cox.rr.com)
07/17/02 Andrew Williams        1   (andrewms at capaccess.org)
11/14/02 Liza Kessler          22   (LKessler at lharris.com)
06/06/03 Keith Marshall         4   (kwm at presortmail.com)
07/08/03 Kit Mason             78   (kit at hers.com)
06/28/04 Wade Lynch            10   wsl1 at erols.com
08/09/04 John Pomeranz          3   (john at bungalow.org)
10/21/04 Jim Kling             60   (jkling at nasw.org)
10/27/04 Ivy Yap               38   yapivy at yahoo.com
11/18/04 Jack Chalker (RIP)    13   (jchalker at miragepress.com)
02/11/05 Peggy Rae Sapienza     1   (peggyraes at comcast.net)
03/23/05 Cat Meier              6   (FairestCat at techemail.com)
05/12/05 Chuck Divine          43   (chuck.divine at att.net)
05/23/05 Rebecca Prather       19   (prather at netzero.net)
08/22/05 Scott Hofmann         29   shofmann at mindspring.com
10/17/05 Adrienne Ertman       18   (ase at wam.umd.edu)
10/20/05 Mike Pederson         76   (mike at nthzine.com)
10/21/05 Tamara Griesel         1   tamaragale at comcast.net
10/24/05 Elizabeth Twitchell   68   (elizceleste at mindspring.com)
11/19/05 Nicki Lynch          173   (sfbookfan at yahoo.com)
01/03/06 Deidre McLaughlin      6   dcmcl333 at yahoo.com
06/22/06 Paul Haggerty         26   paul.haggerty at noaa.gov
07/12/06 Tom Haughey           46   t.haughey at sbcglobal.net
08/07/06 Mark Fischer         110   marklfischer at aol.com
08/30/06 Gayle Surrette        40   davinci at chesapeake.net
09/08/06 Sam Pierce            42   scpierce at alum.mit.edu
09/25/06 Madeleine Yeh        157   myeh at wap.org
10/03/06 Drew Bittner         116   drewbitt at yahoo.com
10/07/06 Colleen Cahill        99   sffreviews at yahoo.com
10/09/06 Erica Ginter         310   eginter at klgai.com
10/18/06 Sally Hand            38   sallyhand at excite.com
10/19/06 Karey & Bill Herriman 28   herrimank at verizon.net
10/25/06 Walter Miles          48   walter at nova.org
10/25/06 Larry Pfeffer          7   larry_pfeffer at verizon.net
10/26/06 Steve Smith          382   sgs at aginc.net
11/01/06 Jim Toth               7   jjtoth at vcu.edu
11/13/06 Lee Gilliland        384   (leeandalexis at hotmail.com)
11/13/06 Mark Owings            1   (otzchiim at aol.com)
12/08/06 Judy Newton           32   jnewton at nist.gov
12/12/06 Dick Eney (RIP)      230   (dicconf at radix.net)
12/13/06 S.J. Vaughan-Nichols   9   sjvn01 at gmail.com
12/25/06 Cathy Green          186   dalek_cag at yahoo.com
01/10/07 Lee Strong           645   (StrongL at sddc.army.mil)
01/15/07 Mike Nelson           93   mike.nelson at seahunt.org
01/18/07 Rich Lynch           182   rw_lynch at yahoo.com
01/18/07 Will Frank             2   wmfrank at stwing.org
01/22/07 Bob MacIntosh         80   macbuccfo at email.msn.com
01/23/07 Kathi Overton         19   kathi at bungalow.org
01/25/07 Ron Kean             392   ronkean at juno.com
01/25/07 Neil Ottenstein       57   nottenst at yahoo.com
01/25/07 Sam Scheiner          12   sscheiner at yahoo.com
02/26/07 Eva Whitley           57   eva.whitley at gmail.com
02/28/07 Bill Lawhorn          90   Lawhorn_W at bls.gov
03/03/07 Samuel Lubell        333   samlubell at verizon.net
03/04/07 Barry Newton         417   bnewton at ashcomp.com
03/04/07 Ernest Lilley        295   elilley at mindspring.com
03/05/07 E.C. (Stan) Field     65   ecfield at comcast.net
03/05/07 Eric Jablow          129   ejablow at cox.net
03/08/07 Mike Bartman         646   omni at omniphile.com
03/08/07 Elaine Brennan        10   elaine.brennan at worldnet.att.net
03/09/07 Elspeth Kovar        444   ekovar at panix.com
03/10/07 Candy Madigan        357   candymadigan at mindspring.com
03/10/07 Steve Stiles          38   swstiles at comcast.net
03/10/07 Meridel Newton        17   meridel at ashcomp.com
03/10/07 Tamar Lindsay         32   dicconf at radix.net
03/10/07 Ted White            928   twhite8 at cox.net
03/10/07 Michael Walsh       2611   walshmichaelj at gmail.com
03/11/07 Keith Lynch         1262   kfl at KeithLynch.net

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
(herrimank at verizon.net) with two people, and another address
(dicconf at radix.net) that used to have two people, but now has one.

This list is not an official WSFA project, however I recommend that
anything sent to the official WSFA email list on Yahoo! also be sent
to this one, since many past and present WSFAns will have nothing to
do with Yahoo!.

Archives of this list are at http://KeithLynch.net/wsfa/list/.  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.)

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.

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.

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 once
or twice a month.

Also see the article about this list in the October 2004 WSFA Journal,
at http://www.wsfa.org/journal/j04/a/index.htm#wel

Please tell me anything else which you think should have been in this
message, which I post every month.  Thanks.