Article 24409 of rec.arts.sf.fandom:
From: hoey@aic.nrl.navy.mil (Dan Hoey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom
Subject: Re: Leeper Intersection report
Date: 11 Oct 1995 21:06:23 GMT
Organization: Navy Center for Artificial Intelligence
To: ian@soren.demon.co.uk (Ian Sorensen)
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In-reply-to: ian@soren.demon.co.uk's message of Mon, 09 Oct 1995 21:59:57 +0100

ian@soren.demon.co.uk (Ian Sorensen) commments on Evelyn Leeper's remark:

> ``I looked through the Pocket Programme, which is in a small loose-leaf
> binder for no really good reason'' - if you read page 2 of it you would
> have found out the reason: it was so that you could remove pages you
> didn't want to carry about and add new ones that you did want! Your later
> complaint about it being too big is a common one at all cons, so the
> removable pages made it at least lighter if not smaller.

When I read that bit in the pocket program, I assumed it had to be one
of those British witticisms bypassing my ken.  I certainly couldn't
take it seriously.  The cover of the looseleaf binder alone, when
empty, was larger than all of the pages.  Both in width and length (of
course) but also in thickness, due to the binding mechanism.  It was a
neat idea, but it turned out considerably less convenient than if
you'd stapled or glued the pages together.  And while I have a lot of
appreciation for your efforts in arranging it, I'll have to rate the
loose leaf notebook as an experiment that showed us how not to do it.

I just hope the Wizards of the Coast paid enough to make it
profitable, because the adverts were annoyingly numerous.  They would
have been my choice, if I were going to go removing pages, but you
craftily printed them with indispensable information on the back.  Oh,
well, at least it wasn't Bridge Publications this time.

> OK, sorry to pick on you and all that but, if you are going to post
> 27,000 words about an event you should at least try to make your
> criticisms reasonable and consistent.

Hmm.  How long have you been reading fannish convention reportage?  I
think you need to recalibrate your expectations.  As a genre, about
the best you can say about fan journalism is that it's usually
somewhat fairer and more accurate than the Glasgow newspapers.

Dan Hoey                        Thieves!  Ninety quid and they didn't
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil           have a single Next Generation star!