From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: History and fandom
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:46:02 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "N Lynch" <sfbookfan at yahoo.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 10:09 AM
Subject: [WSFA] History and fandom

> --- 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.

Thanks.  There does seem to be a sense of deja vu to some of these
discussions....

--Ted White