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
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--- 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
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> 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.