From: "Robert MacIntosh" <macbuccfo at msn.com>
To: WSFAlist at WSFA.org
Subject: [WSFA] Re: 2007 Worldcon
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:01:43 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

>From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
>Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
>To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
>Subject: [WSFA] Re: 2007 Worldcon
>Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:12:28 -0400
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ivy Yap" <yapivy at techemail.com>
>To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
>Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 10:26 PM
>Subject: [WSFA] 2007 Worldcon
>
> > --- "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > I agree with Erica that Japan is not a good choice for the Worldcon,
> > for the reason she gave and several other reasons.  Expense, airline
> > security hassles, passport and visa hassles, and differing cultural
> > expectations.
> > <<<<
> >
> > I'd like to point out that the above reasons (expense, etc.) are also
>perfectly valid concerns for the foreigners who would have to travel to the
>good ol' US of A for a Columbus Worldcon.
>
>========
>
>(Sorry about the previous post-without-reply; my finger slipped on the
>keyboard, and apparently "Ctrl" means "send.")
>
>Despite it being called "the World Science Fiction Convention" or
>"Worldcon," it's mostly American (the majority of attendees -- even in
>foreign locations) and analogous to baseball's "World Series," which has
>*never* left the USA.

The last I heard, Toronto is in Canada, not the United States, and it has
held World Series Games two or three times in the ancient 1990's.

It's really the American national convention -- as
>proven by the substition of a "Nasfic" held in the US whenever the Worldcon
>does leave the country.
>
>--Ted White
>
Bob MacIntosh