Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 22:26:39 -0500 (EST)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: WFC
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

"Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> wrote:
> Of course the reason for the ID was to make sure that X was X when
> they rolled up to get their registration material and claimed to
> be X.

My concern is about people without ID.  Sure, lots of people would
have vouched that I was me, if the person working reg hadn't accepted
my "United Individualist" plastic magstripe card.  But what about neos?

At the gripe session at the end of the last Disclave, everyone for
whom this was their first Disclave was asked to raise their hand.
Nobody did.

Fandom needs fresh blood, and fresh brains.  Brains!  BRAINS!!
(Sorry, I keep forgetting Halloween is over.)

Why not only ask for ID from the *second* person claiming to be X?
If he can prove he's X, then staff members will be instructed to keep
an eye out for the fake X.

> Reigstration knows not everyone by face.  & with non-staff
> memberships starting at $100 . . .

Appropriate for Halloween, there were plenty of ghosts at the con.

One even just wrote me to complain to me that he was escorted off
the property by hotel security after entering the banquet without a
banquet ticket or con membership, wearing an eyecatching cheerleader's
uniform.  (He also said he lost his camera.  Has anyone found one?)

On Thursday I wrote:

> After getting a quick bite to eat in the con suite, I started out
> bagging books in the Yosemite room on the second floor.  I had
> thought I was good at packing books tightly into bags, but some
> people were better -- and had to be, since with one item from each
> pile, the bags were full to near-overflowing.

My skills as a packer are redeemed:  At home, after the con, I unpacked
my bag, which was full to the top, and then repacked it, in less
space.  In the Yosemite room I must have been packing more books per
bag than the others were.  I wonder whether it was they or I who
misunderstood how much was to go into each bag.

In retrospect, less should have gone into all of Thursday's bags,
since by late Friday bags were only half as full.
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