Subject: [WSFA] Re: This list is 16 years old today
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: "Walter A. Miles Jr." <waltmiles at comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 23:27:42 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On 02/11/2018 11:11 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
> This list, intended for past and present WSFA members, is 16 years
> old today.

I have mostly enjoyed this list.  I have been on a number
of Yahoo lists, and I suppose they work well enough, but I
prefer something that is actively managed, does not have a
heavy commercial component, and regards privacy a bit more
highly.

I don't participate that much any more in any lists, online
fora (even, sadly, Amiga ones), or so-called "social media"***.
My ambition now is to stay in some touch by email with a tiny
handful of very old friends.  Not doin' a great job of that
either.

I don't have any advice about the WSFA list.  It seems like
this horse has left the stable.  I don't think that putting
the official list on Yahoo was a malicious act.  Maybe just
the easiest thing, or maybe somebody thought Yahoo would put
a lot of work into pushing the technology ahead.  I wouldn't
take it personally.

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***Yes.  I know.  That day 3000 years ago that I went up the
mountain to get those two stone tablets with all the rules
on them, and God pulled me aside and said "Facebook's really
great, ain't it!"  And sometimes I do use it to reply "Yeah,
me too" to Avedon, or to watch my kids look at baby pictures,
or to get friend requests from punk-looking teenage girls
who don't wear much clothing and that I've never met, and the
like.  I don't know why Facebook seems like such a *steaming*
pile of crap to me, when it's clearly the greatest platform
for human interaction that has ever existed outside of a
men's room stall.  I guess I'm just unmutual.

Thanks Keith,
--
Walter A. Miles, Jr.
417 Lincoln Ave., Takoma Park, MD 20912