Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 17:39:43 -0400
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: More on CapClave vs. Ditto
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Elspeth Kovar wrote:

> >--- 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.

Not *that* nearby -- Toronto.  (But Garth lives in British Columbia, and
may be excused for thinking it's close.)

These two posts came from the Memoryhole list -- an international list
more or less devoted to fanzines -- which shares only the Lynches and
myself with this list.  I figured they should be seen here.  If you have
no objections I'll post your response there.  (No "confusion is
fermenting" -- you've seen the only two posts on the subject.)

--Ted White