From: "Robert MacIntosh" <macbuccfo at msn.com>
To: WSFAlist at WSFA.org
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Capclave
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:07:42 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Here! Here! Enough. Everyone who worked on Capclave did the best they could.
They all should be saluted and praised. Anyone who expects perfection better
look elsewhere. This is not our hobby, not our vocation. So, unless you are
volunteering to help next year, shut your collective yaps unless you are
offering praise.

Bob MacIntosh

>From: Sam Lubell <samlubell at verizon.net>
>Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
>To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
>Subject: [WSFA] Re: Capclave
>Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:50:25 -0400
>
>At 09:20 PM 10/19/2004, Ted wrote:
> > > So let me get this straight. You sit back and take potshots but aren't
> >actually interested in taking part in
> > > the process.
> > >
> > > Just what we need around here, more armchair critics.
> >
> >You're being remarkably defensive for someone to whom I offered a copout
>to
> >begin with -- that other things might've been on your mind and taking up
> >your time.   You've responded to only one of the several criticisms which
> >Keith and I offered -- the one on which you think you have the edge.
>
>There's a distinction between constructive criticism and personal attacks
>that I think we should all keep in mind.  Saying this could be better next
>year if we do such and such is much more constructive than saying so and so
>did a lousy job.
>
>Obviously, it's too late to change anything for Capclave 04 (unless someone
>has a time machine they haven't been telling us about).  So let's focus on
>ideas for Capclave 05 instead of attacking each other.
>