Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:05:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: 2007 Worldcon
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

"Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu> wrote:

> According to the offical listing <http://wsfs.org/nasfic.html>,
> the first NASFiC was in the 1975 in LA.  Blame LASFS?

When I saw this, my first reaction was that that can't be right, since
I had just been reading about NASFiC in a WSFA Journal from the 1960s.

I went back and looked again.  And it turns out it *was* discussing
the 1975 NASFiC, which is correctly named, and correctly placed on the
west coast opposite a Worldcon in Australia.

This was on page 13 of issue 69, dated October/November 1969.

So it looks like long planning and bidding cycles are not new.

On the other hand, it claims that the Hugos would be given out at that
NASFiC, not at the Worldcon.  That's not right, is it?

Sorry, that issue isn't available online yet.  Placing back issues
online is very slow going, as I am placing most of my WSFA effort into
newer stuff.  Shortly before the last meeting I corrected our online
constitution and by-laws.  Shortly after the meeting, I wrote up the
minutes and placed them online.  Since then I've been fooling around
with fancy quotes, I've updated the Capclave pages with some PDFs from
Lee and a handicapped guide from Marilee, and am now working on a
page about WSFA Press.  And, of course, I'm working on the upcoming
September Journal, which should be available for Third Friday.  I need
to write lots of material for it unless I get some more submissions.
(I've got tons of stuff from Lee Strong, some cartoons from Alexis,
one article from Colleen, but nothing else whatsoever, except what
I write myself.)

I don't plan to work on a page about our 2011 Worldcon bid unless I
get some assurance that someone else won't later produce a different
one then demand that I take mine down, as happened with SMOFcon.

Also, some of the contents of the old Journals are rather tedious.
The April 1980 issue had our then-current complete constitution and
bylaws.  Fine, no problem.  Then I did the March 1980 issue.  That
too had our then-current complete constitution and bylaws, which were
significantly different.  Then came the February 1980 issue, which I'm
working on now.  It *ALSO* has our complete constitution and bylaws,
which are different yet *AGAIN*.  One of the hardest things to
proofread is something that's supposed to be very slightly different
than something else you just proofread.  Especially when it's printed
in type that's just a little too tiny and blurry for a scanner to get
clean copy from.

I took a peek ahead at the January 1980 issue.  I was worried that
it, too, might have a slightly different copy of our constitution
and bylaws.  The good news is that it doesn't.  The bad news is
that that's because it has *TWO* slightly different copies of our
constitution and bylaws!  Argh!  Why couldn't Joe have simply included
the first million digits of pi, instead?  At least there would be a
little more variety.

It doesn't look like I'll quite get 25 years online by Noreascon, as
I had announced early this year that I'd expected to.  But I should
complete the 1980s, and get at least one issue from the 1970s online
by then.  According to fanac.org, that's the watershed between "Modern
Fanzines" and "Classic and Older Fanzines".