Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:40:00 -0400
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: History and fandom
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

N Lynch wrote:
> --- Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net> wrote:
>
>>Comics fandom has been separate and distinct from SF
>>fandom since the
>>mid-'50s (I have been in both).  There was never a
>>question of it escaping
>>from "the fold," [snip]
>
> Wonderful review of fandom's beginnings and brief
> overview of How We Got Here.  Unfortunately, the fans
> who know this stuff are passing away and there is no
> clear way to pass long that we've been there and done
> that.
>
> We're doomed to the eternal loops of people asking the
> same questions over and receiving the same answers
> over again.  First it was the "why is fandom
> shrinking" which was last week and this week the usual
> "why are there different fandoms"?
>
> Seems to me there was a discussion on a FAQ, but none
> one could figure out what should be there. I think
> Ted's answer should be the answer to at least one
> question.  Your assignment is to write the question.
>
> Nicki

Might I suggest that the WSFA Wiki <http://www.zipbeep.org/wsfa.cgi>
would be a good place to hack out something like this?  Log in (the
password is "Capclave") and start putting stuff in.  Others can chime in
as they see the need.

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Steve Smith                                    sgs at aginc dot net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."