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- From: lmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Laurie Mann)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom
- Subject: Re: Arisia vs. Boskone
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 15:37:51 GMT
- Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
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- Jim Mann writes
- >In article <1992Dec30.002935.17055@radian.uucp>
- >markbr%radian@natinst.com (markbr) writes:
- >> I'd say the battle is between SMOF-run cons, who want to big, and
- >> yet exclusive, tending to prefer print to any other media, and those who
- >> want to remain like the cons used to be.
- >Define "used to be." I'd argue that cons that tend to prefer
- >print media ARE like cons "used to be." But then, I define
- >"used to be" based on 1975. Most people tend to define "used
- >to be" based on what it was like when they first started
- >going to conventions.
-
- Good point, Jim.
-
- Though, Mark, I am at a loss to think of any "SMOF-run cons, who
- want to big and yet exclusive..." Could you name one, please?
- There are lots of people who want to run BIG conventions and big
- conventions cannot be exclusive by their very nature. Some of us
- don't want to work on big conventions other than the occasional
- Worldcon. There's plenty of audience in fandom for all
- kinds of conventions.
-
- The attitudes among "SMOFS" are extremely divergent on how
- to run cons and on what size cons are "best."
-
- * In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak *
- * because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I *
- * didn't speak because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade *
- * unionists, and I didn't speak because I wasn't a trade unionist... *
- *Then they came for me--and by that time no one was left to speak up.*
- * Rev. Martin Niemoeller [Why to March on Washington in April] *
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