From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> To: WSFA Members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] This list is ten and a half years old today Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 11:36:05 -0400 (EDT) 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 and half years old today. 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 15,883 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 1.3 messages 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 never 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 05/26/11 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 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 01/07/12 Rebecca Prather 20 (prather2902 at verizon.net) 05/18/12 Samuel Lubell 388 samlubell at verizon.net 05/18/12 Eric Jablow 171 ejablow at cox.net 05/21/12 Barry Newton 444 bnewton at ashcomp.com 06/15/12 Walter Miles 62 waltmiles at comcast.net 06/27/12 Eva Whitley 102 (eva.whitley at gmail.com) 06/27/12 Mike Bartman 975 omni at omniphile.com 07/21/12 Madeleine Yeh 213 myeh at wap.org 07/25/12 Elspeth Kovar 552 ekovar at panix.com 07/31/12 Larry Pfeffer 10 ursine at gmail.com 08/08/12 Mark Roth 340 whitroth at 5-cent.us 08/10/12 Tamar Lindsay 266 dicconf at yahoo.com 08/10/12 Michael Walsh 4410 walshmichaelj at gmail.com 08/11/12 Keith Lynch 1562 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. Six months ago I 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