From: Walter Miles <waltmiles at comcast.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:35:31 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] My Fannish Friends (was Re: Slan...)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Bill said that this was not a WSFA issue.  IMO it would become WSFA
business if there were a proposal to codify Capclave party policy,
or an attempt to sanction Bill or Elizabeth as officers.  There
can't be any appetite for more strife in WSFA, so perhaps WSFAns
will informally consider this matter during future elections.

To me it is peculiar that Bill wrote this before anyone had suggested
that WSFA deliberate on it---that is the kind of thing folks say when
they figure they've done wrong, and don't want to face it.

BL> As to your response to me.  The use of the F-bomb directed specifically
BL> to me and then at others.

Jeez, that's exactly what I would have done if I'd been refused entry
to a party ("Fuck you all!  Yeah, and y'all with yer little fluttering
external gastrointestinalia over on that side too."), only with more
saliva, probably.  Keith said that?  I'm kinda surprised.  Hmmm...

> The sign I posted on the party board for flyers had a 9:00-? Notation.
> Guess what "?" can be 9:01.  At which time the party can become closed,
> but I won't belabor that point.  I have that flyer.

The above is really bogus

> "I promptly left, and did not return."  That statement of course does
> not include that you walked into the other room of our party before you
> left.  Nor does it include that Saturday night, you returned to our
> private party, and you were again asked to leave.  I wasn't there at the
> time, as you know I was in the Nth degree party talking with a friend.
> Later, I walk across the hall to return to our party and find that you
> had been told to leave, again. That was when you confronted Elizabeth.
> I don't know anybody that thinks that it is appropriate to enter a
> private party without invitation to confront someone, especially when
> asked to leave the prior night.  Did you think we had changed our minds?
> (rhetorical question)

> "To their credit, several people also immediately left."  That is their
> choice.  I cannot confirm or deny your statement.  People flow in and
> out of parties all night.

> "This is the first time in 28 years of going to cons that I've ever been
> asked to leave an open party."  Fandom is generous and forgiving.  No
> doubt about that.  It is also tolerent, too much so some times.  Btw, I
> kicked everyone left out a 4 am when I needed to get some sleep. =20

Be seeing you,
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