From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net> To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> Subject: [WSFA] Re: 2007 Worldcon Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 18:10:44 -0400 Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> ----- Original Message ----- From: "dicconf" <dicconf at radix.net> To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 12:37 PM Subject: [WSFA] Re: 2007 Worldcon > > On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Jim Kling wrote: > > > Ted White wrote: > > > > >(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. It's really the American national convention > > > > > Uh, I think the folks in Glasgow and Toronto would quibble with that. > > Not to mention London and Amsterdam and...was it Dusseldorf? Heidelberg. --Ted White