Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:16:21 -0400
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: File 770 #152 is out
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Keith F. Lynch wrote:

> WSFA had 12 weeks to send him an email.  Nobody in authority in WSFA
> thought it was important enough to so much as ask whether it had been
> done, at any of the five following meetings.

As has been described in various posts, Cathy is president, and was
assigned the task, but was unable to carry it out as soon as would have
been preferred by all (including her).  The same thing that prevented
her from sending the letter, also prevented her attendance at several
WSFA meetings in a row, which Steve Smith (as VP) ran, so she was
unavailable to comment on the matter in any of those meetings.  Not that
it came up anyway...the reading of the minutes is often done pretty
haphazardly these days, with no real objections to this practice.

> It's the secretary's job, not the president's, to revisit all new
> business as old business at the next meeting.  If she fails to do so,
> it's the job of every member to remind her.

Agreed.  It is unlikely that we will have another secretary that had
your attention to detail and dedication to getting the job done properly
any time soon, though we can always hope I suppose.

> This blase attitude just confirms my decision to have nothing more to
> do with WSFA or Capclave.

Blase and organizations intended for fun and social interaction often go
together, and you don't need to feel personally picked on over it.  WSFA
is blase about lots of things, and has been frequently over an extended
period of time.  For instance, WSFA has apparently allowed its corporate
status to lapse on at least 3 occasions due to inattention, and failed
to file tax returns more often than that.  Periodically this rises to
the level of crisis, and it gets fixed...until the next time.  It has
been recently resolved not to do this anymore...but I suspect (without
any specific evidence) that that has happened before too.

When it isn't fun anymore, one should stop doing it.  It's not like we
get paid for it or anything.

-- Mike B.
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"A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on
its shoes." -- Mark Twain