From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA Members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] This list is ten years old today!
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:36 -0500 (EST)
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 ten years old today. The
big One Oh at last! I posted the first message, announcing the list,
on February 11, 2002 at 21 minutes after midnight. Walter Miles and
Michael Walsh also posted on that first day.
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. 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!.
72 people have posted 15,643 messages to the list, an average of 4
per day. 2002 through 2011 averaged 12, 4, 6, 9, 4, 3, 2, 2, 2 and 2
messages per day, respectively. 2012 has averaged 1 message per day
so far.
There are currently 43 subscribers. Since the last of these messages,
six months ago, nobody has subscribed, unsubscribed, or changed email
address.
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.
Latest post
Emily Richter 0 mgscifi at aol.com
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 39 (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)
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
10/18/06 Sally Hand 38 (sallyhand at excite.com)
10/19/06 Karey & Bill Herriman 28 herrimank at verizon.net
11/01/06 Jim Toth 7 jjtoth at vcu.edu
11/13/06 Mark Owings (RIP) 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
03/10/07 Meridel Newton 17 meridel at ashcomp.com
03/11/07 Ernest Lilley 296 (elilley at mindspring.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)
11/14/07 Bob MacIntosh 97 macbuccfo at email.msn.com
05/30/08 Steve Smith 400 sgs at aginc.net
08/12/08 Rich Lynch 184 (rw_lynch at yahoo.com)
10/23/08 Kathi Overton 21 kathi at bungalow.org
10/23/08 Drew Bittner 122 drewbitt at yahoo.com
11/06/08 Elaine Brennan 19 elaine.brennan at worldnet.att.net
02/08/09 Candy Madigan 378 (candymadigan at mindspring.com)
03/30/09 Sam Scheiner 16 sscheiner at yahoo.com
12/02/09 Lee Strong 669 (lees103 at verizon.net)
01/02/11 Sam Pierce 44 scpierce at alum.mit.edu
03/23/11 George Shaner 2 (george_shaner at yahoo.com)
04/01/11 Mike Nelson 115 mike.nelson at seahunt.org
05/19/11 Larry Pfeffer 9 ursine at gmail.com
05/26/11 Neil Ottenstein 74 nottenst at yahoo.com
09/20/11 Steve Stiles 54 swstiles at comcast.net
09/27/11 Bill Lawhorn 101 Lawhorn_W at bls.gov
09/29/11 Ted White 1014 twhite8 at cox.net
10/11/11 S.J. Vaughan-Nichols 20 sjvn01 at gmail.com
10/20/11 Ron Kean 414 ronkean at juno.com
11/02/11 Eric Jablow 170 ejablow at cox.net
11/05/11 Madeleine Yeh 210 myeh at wap.org
11/14/11 Barry Newton 442 bnewton at ashcomp.com
12/03/11 Elspeth Kovar 547 ekovar at panix.com
12/13/11 E.C. (Stan) Field 92 e.c.field at gmail.com
12/15/11 Erica Ginter 314 eginter at klgai.com
12/27/11 Judy Newton 43 jnewton at ashcomp.com
12/27/11 Walter Miles 61 waltmiles at comcast.net
01/04/12 Samuel Lubell 386 samlubell at verizon.net
01/07/12 Rebecca Prather 20 (prather2902 at verizon.net)
01/19/11 Mike Bartman 970 omni at omniphile.com
01/29/12 Tamar Lindsay 258 dicconf at yahoo.com
02/01/12 Mark Roth 280 whitroth at 5-cent.us
02/08/12 Eva Whitley 101 (eva.whitley at gmail.com)
02/09/12 Michael Walsh 4268 walshmichaelj at gmail.com
02/11/12 Keith Lynch 1552 kfl at KeithLynch.net
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.
EXCEPT that I have no information on WSFA members or attendance since
2010, since no WSFA Journals, meeting minutes, or attendance data have
been posted to WFSA's website in over a year, except in the unreadable
PDF format (and even those PDF Journals are running several months
behind). The HTML has been "coming soon." So anyone who may have
joined in 2011 or 2012 cannot post to the list unless they email me
first, via my current disposable address, which can always be found at
http://KeithLynch.net/email.html, and affirm that they're WSFA members
(or ex-members). Not that I expect anyone to do so, since obviously
WSFA doesn't inform its new members of the existence of this list.
But I had been regularly downloading attendance data and updating the
list's whitelist through the end of 2010, and had been wasting my time
attempting to do so again at least once every week in 2011 and since.
Effective today, I've deleted wsfa.org from my bookmarks, as an
abandoned website. I think most people do the same with any site
that's had no usable substantive updates in over a year -- most a lot
sooner than that, even if the webmaster hung a "coming soon" sign on
it before retiring.
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