Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 06:41:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: N Lynch <sfbookfan at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Worldcon - attendance vs. membership
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> --- "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> wrote:
> > Michael Walsh wrote:
> > > Here:
> > http://www.interaction.worldcon.org.uk/members.htm
> >you can search using state name abbreviations, such
as > MD, DC, VA to see who
> > > were members, a number of folks with attending
> were able to make it.
> >
> > Thanks.  Also thanks to Rich and Bob.  By
comparing our WSFA
> > attendance data to that URL, and from other
> sources,
> > here's the
> > semi-final list of past and present WSFAns at the
> > Worldcon, which
> > I intend to publish in the next WSFA Journal:

Keith,

You're clearly confusing having a membership with
actual attendance.  One can have an attending
membership of a convention without attending and many
WSFAns did just that.  In fact the GoH had an
attending membership and was unable to attend.

Just what is the purpose of publishing a list of
WSFAns who may or may not have attended this WorldCon
in the WSFA Journal?  If you can't vet it any better
than equating an attending membership with actual
attendance, then it is not an accurate list.  Why
publish an inaccurate list?

Nicki

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