From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] This list is 20 years old today
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 07:52:23 -0500 (EST)

This list, intended for past and present WSFA members, is 20 years
old today.

There have been more than 17,000 messages from more than 70 people,
an average of 880 messages per year, though most of them were in the
early years.

Complete archives, with indexes by date and by sender, are at
http://KeithLynch.net/wsfa/list

Please send in plain text only.  See
http://pyropus.ca/personal/writings/nomime.html for why HTML email is
a bad idea, and for how to turn it off.  (TL;DR:  Such email is at
best bloated and hard to read, and at worst can be (and usually is)
spam or malware.  And lots of mailing lists, ISPs, employers, and
schools silently block it from their users.)  I recommend turning it
off for everyone who doesn't explicitly request it, and I've never
heard of anyone who explicitly requests it.  HTML is for web pages,
not for email.

I kept this list going after WSFA changed its official list to a
Yahoogroups list, since many people refused to use Yahoogroups.
Two years ago I added this to the annual message:

  Now that the club has wisely replaced the Yahoogroups list with a
  Googlegroups list, does anyone object to my phasing out this list
  and encouraging people to move to that list?  Thanks.

I soon learned the hard way that the Googlegroups list has secret
rules, and if you violate one of them you will be permanently banned
without appeal.  So I will continue to keep this list going.  Nobody
has ever been banned from this list.  Someone please post this fact
to the Googlegroups list and to everyone who has been banned from it.
Thanks.