Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:09:59 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>, WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: Sam Lubell <samlubell at verizon.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Minutes of the November 19th meeting are online
Cc: Peggy Rae Sapienza <peggyraes at comcast.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 01:39 AM 11/27/2004, Elspeth Kovar wrote:
>Which is that far from causing panic, being open about at a local SMOFcon
>about having lost money could be one of the best things that has happened
>to WSFA.  We have a chance at good PR and, more importantly, resources that
>we usually wouldn't.
>
>I realize that you're worried about what people might think but there's no
>shame in saying that one has run into a problem and wants to learn how to
>fix it.  In fact, there would probably be far fewer problems if more people
>did that and it's something to be encouraged.

Interesting thoughts.  But what I'm worried about, especially since we
can't give an exact number for how much we lost, is that any discussion
will become a guessing game as to that number rather than ideas for how to
prevent this from happening in the future.