Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:51:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Rich Lynch <rw_lynch at yahoo.com> Subject: [WSFA] Re: This list is six and a half years old today To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> De-subscribe me, please. Rich Lynch ========== MIMOSA web site: http://jophan.org/mimosa/ 1960s Fan History Site: http://jophan.org/1960s/ http://www.livejournal.com/~rwl --- On Mon, 8/11/08, Keith F. Lynch <kfl at KeithLynch.net> wrote: > From: Keith F. Lynch <kfl at KeithLynch.net> > Subject: [WSFA] This list is six and a half years old today > To: "WSFA Members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> > Date: Monday, August 11, 2008, 12:01 AM > This list, intended for the use of past and present members > of the > Washington Science Fiction Association, is six and a half > years (78 > months) old today. > > 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.) > > 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!. > > 70 people have posted 13,354 messages to the list, an > average of 6 per > day. 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 averaged 12, > 4, 6, 9, 4, > and 3 messages per day, respectively. 2008 has averaged 2 > messages > per day so far. > > There are currently 48 subscribers, including eight of the > ten > officers. Nobody has subscribed, unsubscribed, or changed > address > in the past month. > > 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 > 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 Larry Pfeffer 8 > larry_pfeffer at verizon.net > 11/01/06 Jim Toth 7 jjtoth at vcu.edu > 11/13/06 Mark Owings 1 (otzchiim at aol.com) > 12/12/06 Dick Eney (RIP) 230 (dicconf at radix.net) > 12/25/06 Cathy Green 186 dalek_cag at yahoo.com > 01/23/07 Kathi Overton 19 kathi at bungalow.org > 03/10/07 Meridel Newton 17 meridel at ashcomp.com > 03/11/07 Ernest Lilley 296 > (elilley at mindspring.com) > 03/12/07 Rich Lynch 183 rw_lynch at yahoo.com > 03/28/07 Lee Gilliland 385 > (leeandalexis at hotmail.com) > 05/08/07 Colleen Cahill 103 sffreviews at yahoo.com > 05/18/07 Will Frank 8 (wmfrank at stwing.org) > 06/01/07 Bill Lawhorn 96 Lawhorn_W at bls.gov > 07/08/07 Elaine Brennan 18 > elaine.brennan at worldnet.att.net > 07/18/07 Sam Scheiner 15 sscheiner at yahoo.com > 11/14/07 Bob MacIntosh 97 macbuccfo at email.msn.com > 02/16/08 Judy Newton 35 jnewton at nist.gov > 03/08/08 Steve Stiles 44 swstiles at comcast.net > 03/17/08 Barry Newton 431 bnewton at ashcomp.com > 03/21/08 S.J. Vaughan-Nichols 15 sjvn01 at gmail.com > 04/07/08 Madeleine Yeh 164 myeh at wap.org > 05/01/08 Neil Ottenstein 64 nottenst at yahoo.com > 05/20/08 Walter Miles 53 waltmiles at comcast.net > 05/30/08 Steve Smith 400 sgs at aginc.net > 06/04/08 Candy Madigan 374 > candymadigan at mindspring.com > 06/06/08 Samuel Lubell 360 samlubell at verizon.net > 06/12/08 Drew Bittner 121 drewbitt at yahoo.com > 06/25/08 Elspeth Kovar 487 ekovar at panix.com > 07/01/08 Ron Kean 404 ronkean at juno.com > 07/06/08 E.C. (Stan) Field 81 ecfield at comcast.net > 07/07/08 Tamar Lindsay 97 dicconf at radix.net > 07/11/08 Mike Bartman 770 omni at omniphile.com > 07/11/08 Mike Nelson 105 mike.nelson at seahunt.org > 07/16/08 Ted White 969 twhite8 at cox.net > 07/17/08 Eva Whitley 85 eva.whitley at gmail.com > 08/05/08 Eric Jablow 150 ejablow at cox.net > 08/07/08 Lee Strong 648 lees103 at verizon.net > 08/08/08 Michael Walsh 3154 walshmichaelj at gmail.com > 08/11/08 Keith Lynch 1362 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. > > 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.