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From: "Elspeth Kovar" <ekovar at radix.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: More on CapClave vs. Ditto
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 13:47:52 -0700
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>--- Original Message ---
>From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
>To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
>Date: 5/13/02 2:53:56 PM
>

>>From Garth Spencer:
>
>"About conventions selecting dates - I appreciate the various
remarks about
>conventions, especially the observation that Capclave could
have selected a
>date that didn't conflict with a nearby con. My first thought,
as usual, is
>that this year's Capclave committee *simply didn't know* there
was an issue
>there to consider; just didn't know there were other cons within
travelling
>distance, such as Ditto, or that it was important to have a
different date."

You quoted earlier:

"Alas, CapClave decided to happen in 2002 the same weekend in
Ditto, a
conjunction of cons that will force some Ditto attendees who
like CapClave to
choose between Ditto and CapClave. Catherine Crockett and I both
emailed
CapClave before Corflu in February, aware that CapClave and Ditto
were
considering the same time of year. We explained if we knew CapClave's
date
that Ditto likely would plump for a different weekend. No response.
And of
course CapClave ended up being the same weekend as Ditto. *sigh*

"/\/\urray
"Murray Moore""
I wonder who in the world they wrote to?  I would have been more
than willing to discuss dates with Ditto and am certain that
Mike would have been as well, thus most likely avoiding conflict.
 And Capclave, as such, didn't *have* an address until quite
recently.  Keith, could you look through your mail as WSFA webmaster
and see if you got anything?

Ted, I appreciate that you're passing these along, since I don't
know what list you're getting them from, nor if anyone else here
is on it.  And I'm glad that you know the situation  on this
end -- you certainly saw enough of the "I'll tell people a date
just as soon as I've gotten signatures from both the hotel and
the chair, okay?" messages -- and have thus explained it.  Or
at least that part, since where the heck they sent messages isn't
something that can be explained yet.

It would be nice to have the chance to point out that yes, of
course we know that it's important not to overlap with other
conventions and tried rather hard to avoid doing so.  Still,
I may have missed the fact that Ditto is nearby this year; where
is it?  I'm borrowing a computer at the moment and so don't have
my usual bookmarks to work with, much less a way of joining another
list to see what confusion is fermenting there.

Elspeth