From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: dragoncon
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:39:10 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 12:29 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: dragoncon

> > twhite8 at cox.net 7/20/2005 12:14:47 PM >>>
> >
[...]
> >
> >What I don't understand is why people pay Big Bucks to go to for-
> >profit
> >cons like Dragoncon.
>
> Such conventions offer things that fan run SF cons don't.
> Looking at their web site I can see why the con would be attractive to
> many people, and not attractive to others.
>
> And FWIW their at the door rate is cheaper than Worldcon, which is
> probably a draw for some folks.

Well, three or four nights in a movie theatre would be even cheaper.  But
so what?  Apples and oranges....

--Ted White