From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA Members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] This list is 15 years old today
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 16:06:55 -0500 (EST)

This list, intended for the use of past and present members of the
Washington Science Fiction Association, is 15 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

Please also avoid using MIME and UTF-8 if possible.  And please snip
out any random ads, footers, etc., from Yahoo! or other ad-supported
sites.  You're always welcome to post ads that you *want* to post,
of course.

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!.

73 people have posted 17,279 messages to the list, an average of 3 per
day.  2002 through 2011 averaged 12, 4, 6, 9, 4, 3, 2, 2, 2, and 2
messages per day, respectively.  Each year since then has averaged 1
message per day.

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 dmarc-yahoo.com)
11/18/04 Jack Chalker (RIP)      13   (jchalker at miragepress.com)
02/11/05 Peggy Rae Sapienza (RIP) 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 dmarc-yahoo.com)
01/03/06 Deidre McLaughlin        6   dcmcl333 at dmarc-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 dmarc-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 dmarc-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 dmarc-yahoo.com
11/06/08 Elaine Brennan          19   elaine.brennan at worldnet.att.net
02/08/09 Candy Madigan          378   (candymadigan at mindspring.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 dmarc-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
06/18/13 Erica Ginter           316   eginter at klgai.com
10/08/13 Neil Ottenstein         76   nottenst at dmarc-yahoo.com
10/25/13 Rich Lynch             185   (rw_lynch at dmarc-yahoo.com)
01/31/14 Eric Jablow            176   ejablow at cox.net
04/17/14 Mike Bartman          1039   omni at omniphile.com
04/27/15 Eva Whitley            104   (eva.whitley at gmail.com)
05/27/15 S.J. Vaughan-Nichols    25   sjvn01 at gmail.com
08/13/15 Perrianne Lurie          1   (bucconeer at pipeline.com)
09/04/15 Sam Scheiner            17   sscheiner at dmarc-yahoo.com
10/12/15 Mike Nelson            118   mike.nelson at seahunt.org
11/01/15 Judy Newton             48   jnewton at ashcomp.com
03/18/16 Barry Newton           463   bnewton at ashcomp.com
04/13/16 Ron Kean               431   ronkean at juno.com
09/08/16 Samuel Lubell          394   samlubell at verizon.net
10/01/16 Ted White             1022   twhite8 at cox.net
11/08/16 Madeleine Yeh          242   myeh at wap.org
11/08/16 Tamar Lindsay          357   dicconf at dmarc-yahoo.com
11/08/16 Walter Miles            80   waltmiles at comcast.net
01/27/17 Mark Roth              833   whitroth at 5-cent.us
01/20/17 Elspeth Kovar          571   ekovar at panix.com
02/11/17 Michael Walsh         4913   walshmichaelj at gmail.com
02/11/17 Keith Lynch           1654   kfl at KeithLynch.net

Note that there's one address (herrimank at verizon.net) with two people,
and another address (dicconf at dmarc-yahoo.com) 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
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