Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:47:41 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Gilliland Fliers
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 01:27 PM 10/23/2006, you wrote:
>dicconf <dicconf at radix.net> wrote:
>
> > OBTW -- is Alexis receiving this interesting material?  Is anyone
> > forwarding it to him?  Seems to me that would only be...hm...what
> > was that old word?  "Fair", that's it.
>
>Alexis is free to subscribe to this list at any time.  He's also free
>to read the archives at any time.  They've been at the same URL for
>four and a half years.  I've announced the URL multiple times in the
>WSFA Journal and multiple times in person at his house.  (Admittedly,
>I haven't updated the archives in the past week, so he'd have to wait
>a few days if he wants to see more than just the first 99.5% of the
>list's history.)
>
>He's also free to post whatever he wants to this list at any time even
>if he doesn't subscribe.
>
>The only reason there's any discussion here speculating on whether the
>flier existed, whether it was six pages, and what it said, was because
>Alexis didn't have the courtesy to act openly.  He could have posted
>it here, placed in on the flier rack at Capclave, handed it to all
>past and present WSFAns at Capclave, or left a stack at the RavenCon
>party.  He did none of those things.  How fair is that?  How fair was
>his airing malicious falsehoods against numerous WSFAns to all of
>fandom in File 770 last year, knowing that due to that fanzine's low
>publication rate his poison would go unrebutted for half a year?

This, of course, presumes that said flier actually exists and isn't just a
figment of someone's troublemaking imagination.  And even if it does exist,
who cares?  That horse is dead.

Candy
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