From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: WSFA:  Alive and Well
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:58:24 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Mike Bartman wrote:

> Even if I look at the page with Lynx, the current events are
> there...they are *seriously* ugly, pretty much unusably ugly, but
> the data is there.

I'm confused.  Do you mean the WSFA website or the Aussiecon website?
The WSFA website (wsfa.org) looks fine in Lynx, except for parts of it
being seriously out of date.  The Aussiecon website (aussiecon4.org.au)
does not appear to contain any substantive information whatsoever
when viewed in Lynx.  I don't know whether that's because it's badly
broken, or because they just haven't gotten around to putting anything
there yet.  Does anything substantive appear there when it's viewed
with some other browser?

If you mean WSFA's calendar of upcoming events (wsfa.org/calendar.htm),
it too looks fine in Lynx -- but contains *no* future events
whatsoever, except WSFA meetings and Capclaves, all of which have been
listed there since last year.  (And yes, I'm sure the May 7, 2007 date
is wrong.  But I'm equally convinced that the Decmber 31, 2007 date is
correct.)

> Keith, you might want to consider setting up a system for using the
> internet that has ...

I already have a system for using the Internet.  My finances are not
currently in a state where I would consider spending hundreds of
dollars just to work around other people's broken websites.  Keep in
mind I would need not just new hardware and software, but also a new
ISP account.  Only a small proportion of websites are broken, anyhow.
As I said, WSFA's definitely is not broken.