From: "Robert MacIntosh" <macbuccfo at msn.com>
To: WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Gilliland Fliers
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:31:11 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

You buy a membership, you attend the convention. Not rocket science. WSFA
does not maintain a list of people who can not attend. On rare times it has,
it was because of bad checks or destruction of property. The Gillilands
expected to be guests because Alexis is both a pro writer and a fen artist.
Not being invited to be a part of the program is not the same as being
prevented from attending the convention. The former is the choice of the
Chair and Head of Programming. Latter is a personal choice.

Bob MacIntosh

>From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
>Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
>To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
>Subject: [WSFA] Re: Gilliland Fliers
>Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:53:23 -0400 (EDT)
>
>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.
>
>-- Dick Eney
>