Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:31:40 -0400 From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net> To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Beyond a Great Con... Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> dicconf wrote: > 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 And that would be you? --Ted White