From: Eric Jablow <ejablow at cox.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Balticon enthusiasm
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:34:46 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Mar 25, 2005, at 11:26 AM, Candy Madigan wrote:

> Oh ghod!  I know *that* one.  When I was working Officer Promotions at
> NSA,
> my superiors were permanently sending my announcements back, to change
> a
> comma to a semi-colon, so I would get my notifications done in oodles
> of
> time, and by the time the powers that be were finished pissing in
> them, the
> Senior Raters would have only a couple of weeks to work on the
> promotion
> packages.  I finally took to putting out a draft copy to the Senior
> Raters
> when I sent the initial letter up for approval.  That way they at
> least had
> warning that something was coming up.
>>
>> I believe part of the problem was certain people wanting to have a
>> full
>> & complete site, rather than putting uo basic/partal information.
>>
>> Reminds me of the type of author who worries over their manuscript too
>> much.
>> mjw
>>

Read "Gaudy Night" for another fictional example.

Respectfully,
Eric Jablow