Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:02:40 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Gilliland Fliers
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> dicconf at radix.net 10/26/2006 9:53:23 AM >>>
>
>On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Mike B. wrote:
>
>> At 10/25/2006 10:48 AM, dicconf wrote:
>>
>>> Ravencon party.  He reports that he wasn't invited to the con and
didn't
>>> feel WSFA was still friendly enough to drop in uninvited.
>>
>> Since when does anyone have to be invited to a con???  If you want
to come,
>> you pay the membership fee and show up...or volunteer to help run
the thing
>> and get in free...and hopefully show up. ;-)
>
>After a violent disagreement that has caused bad feelings for years, I
can
>imagine Alexis felt that he might not be welcome unless somebody
>explicitly told him "hey, we're cool with you being here".  At all
events,
>what he said to me was that he wasn't invited.  Not being a member, I
was
>willing to assume this was some internal WSFA thing.

Since he has clearly stated in the Screed that Mike Nelson was running
Programming for the 2006 Capclave, perhaps he discarded any invites from
the folks who were actually running programming.

Let's be clear: Mike Nelson never was running programming.  At any
time.  Period.

mjw