From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Conversation, was Re: Old Schoolkids/future fans [was: OldSchool]
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 11:58:56 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

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From: "Ern" <elilley at mindspring.com>
To: "WSFA list" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 9:19 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Conversation, was Re: Old Schoolkids/future fans [was: OldSchool]

> Mike right that fandom is a conversation that's been going on since the
days of scientifiction, but the question seems to be more one of "how can
we keep control of the conversation" not how we can keep it going.
>
> The conversation has grown beyong cons...why it's even on the web!

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The "conversation" started almost a decade before the first cons, and cons
were originally just a means of continuing that conversation face to face.
But they were never the *primary* mode for that conversation -- and still
aren't.

--Ted White