Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:44:50 -0400
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Gilliland Fliers
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Candy Madigan wrote:

>  At 01:27 PM 10/23/2006, Keith Lynch 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.

Some people are apparently heavily into denial.  Why?

--Ted White