Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 11:47:41 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fwd: "concerns about the number of new fan-oriented
	events"
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> twhite8 at cox.net 08/05/02 11:35AM
>>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
>To: <WSFAList at KeithLynch.net>
>Cc: <mike.nelson at seahunt.org>
>Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 12:58 AM
>Subject: [WSFA] Fwd: "concerns about the number of new
>fan-oriented events"
>
>> Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 00:47:53 -0400
>> From: "Mark A. Santillo" <santillo at mac.com>
>>
>> Dear Convention Organizers and Club Officers,
>>
>>     I am writing to you on behalf of several peer
>organizations in
>> Pennsylvania and New Jersey who have some concerns about
>the number of new
>> fan-oriented events [sci-fi/fantasy, gaming, etc.] being
>scheduled in the
>> region.  To address these concerns, we invite you to send
>representation to
>> a meeting being planned for the end of August or early
>September in
>> Philadelphia.
>
>[...]
>
>> Mark A. Santillo
>> President, Active Imagineering Inc.
>
>So what is this *really* about, and what is Santillo
>actually selling?
>
>--Ted White
>>
>
Maybe I'm just cynical . . . but the phrase "sci-fi/fantasy, gaming, etc." =
 - along with the dates suggested for the big pow-wow strikes me as being =
from someone who doesn't know about Fandom (atleast as we know Fandom . . =
.).

Also, a google search for "Active Imagineering" & Santillo brings one to: =
http://www.trolllord.com/id67.htm .  Gamers . . .Wizards of the Coast.  =
Lots of "product".

mjw