Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:25:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Beyond a Great Con...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Ted White wrote:

> Michael Nelson wrote:
>
>>  Which brings me to a plea I wish to make. Please, please, please!
>>  This WSFA family feud is tearing us apart. Some very harsh things
>>  have been said. People are staying away from meetings due to the
>>  ugliness of the whole situation. Please step back and consider how
>>  much you are hurting WSFA. Try to raise above common mundane
>>  pettiness and acknowledge that a silly little e-mail joke got
>>  seriously out of hand.
>>
>>  THE MEMBERS OF WSFA DO NOT WANT TO BE FORCED TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THE
>>  TWO COMBATANTS! Please settle your differences and make WSFA whole
>>  again.
>
> It was more than a joke getting out of hand.  The joke simply revealed
> the tip of a large iceberg.  And that iceberg is the behavior and
> attitude of one person -- WSFA's loose cannon.  Either this attitude and
> behavior is curbed (which seems unlikely) or WSFA needs a new Virginia
> meeting place.  She cannot be allowed to dictate, on her own personal
> whims, who is and who is not welcome at WSFA.   As an anciliary, she has
> been spreading false and malicious stories about other WSFAns for a
> period of *years* now, and this latest episode is apparently the final
> straw for some of us.

        Some people have a genius for the game
        Of pouring oil upon the troubled flame

-- Dick Eney