From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> To: WSFA Members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] This list is twelve years old today Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:08:28 -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 twelve 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.) If you're not sure how, see http://www.geoapps.com/nomime.shtml 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 16,616 messages to the list, an average of 4 per day. 2002 through 2013 averaged 12, 4, 6, 9, 4, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, and 1 messages per day, respectively. 2014 has averaged 1 message per day so far. There are currently 43 subscribers. 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 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) 09/20/11 Steve Stiles 54 swstiles at comcast.net 12/13/11 E.C. (Stan) Field 92 e.c.field at gmail.com 01/07/12 Rebecca Prather 20 (prather2902 at verizon.net) 07/31/12 Larry Pfeffer 10 ursine at gmail.com 10/24/12 Bill Lawhorn 102 Lawhorn_W at bls.gov 03/01/13 Eva Whitley 103 (eva.whitley at gmail.com) 03/01/13 Judy Newton 46 jnewton at ashcomp.com 06/18/13 Erica Ginter 316 eginter at klgai.com 06/21/13 Samuel Lubell 391 samlubell at verizon.net 10/02/13 S.J. Vaughan-Nichols 23 sjvn01 at gmail.com 10/05/13 Elspeth Kovar 565 ekovar at panix.com 10/08/13 Neil Ottenstein 76 nottenst at yahoo.com 10/08/13 Ted White 1017 twhite8 at cox.net 10/09/13 Barry Newton 461 bnewton at ashcomp.com 10/10/13 Walter Miles 70 waltmiles at comcast.net 10/25/13 Rich Lynch 185 (rw_lynch at yahoo.com) 11/01/13 Mike Nelson 116 mike.nelson at seahunt.org 01/28/14 Tamar Lindsay 341 dicconf at yahoo.com 01/28/14 Mike Bartman 1037 omni at omniphile.com 01/29/14 Madeleine Yeh 231 myeh at wap.org 01/31/14 Eric Jablow 176 ejablow at cox.net 02/07/14 Ron Kean 426 ronkean at juno.com 02/08/14 Michael Walsh 4653 walshmichaelj at gmail.com 02/08/14 Mark Roth 551 whitroth at 5-cent.us 02/11/14 Keith Lynch 1610 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 two years, except in the unreadable PDF format (and even those PDF Journals stopped showing up nearly two years ago). So anyone who may have joined in 2011 or since 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. (More than two years ago I deleted wsfa.org from my bookmarks, as an abandoned website. My look at the site today confirms my wisdom in doing so. 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 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