From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fwd: "concerns about the number of new fan-orientedevents"
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 18:34:35 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 11:47 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fwd: "concerns about the number of new
fan-orientedevents"

> > 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 . . =
> .).

That was about the way I read it.
>
> 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".

One of which was the last incarnation of AMAZING STORIES....

--Ted White