From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Capclave
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:36:46 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

	I think that we're in agreement here.  My concern is that I have
heard some fans speak of gamers as heathen unfit to associate with fans so I
wanted to clear the air and insure that fans do not exlude potential friends
and fellows under mistaken impressions.  L.

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Smith [mailto:sgs at aginc.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:21 AM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Capclave

"Strong, Lee" wrote:
>
> Fellow Capclavers,
>         Some good discussion of Capclave here.  Barry's listing of
> priorities was particularly useful in clarifying thoughts IMHO.
>         I would like to make a mild dissent on behalf of my fellow
adventure
> gamers (Dungeons & Dragons, etc., etc.).  A lot of gamers are avid sf and
> fantasy buffs, and would become avid fans if welcomed.  I merely suggest
> that gamers not be lumped in with goths, drunken teenagers, and others as
> unwelcome at sf events such as Capclave.  This is not to suggest that a
> gaming track is required, merely recognition that gamers read the stuff,
> too.
>
> Lee S

I don't think that anybody has any objections to "fans who are also X".
Problem is where we get people who are "non-fans who are exclusively
X".  If they're not fans, let them run their own con.

On the non-fan obnoxiousness scale, gamers are at the bottom (unless
they migrate to another class, like "drunks").  Give 'em a table and
they're happy.

--
Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."