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- From: Donald E. Eastlake, III <dee@ranger.enet.dec.com>
- Subject: Re: Arisia vs. Boskone
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.202531.5053@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- <1992Dec31.150957.2275@nuchat.sccsi.com>
- <1992Dec31.163944.22566@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:25:31 GMT
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- >From: anderson@allvax.enet.dec.com (Dave Anderson)
- >Subject: Re: What really happened after Boskone 24 (was Re: Arisia
- vs. Boskone)
- >Message-ID: <1992Dec31.183737.3311@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- >Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- >References: <9212282303.AA13694@enet-gw.pa.dec.com>
- ><1992Dec30.002935.17055@radian.uucp>
- <1992Dec30.194328.5873@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- ><1992Dec31.150957.2275@nuchat.sccsi.com>
- <1992Dec31.163944.22566@athena.mit.edu>
- >Date: 31 DEC 92 13:29:08 EST
-
- >In article <1992Dec31.163944.22566@athena.mit.edu>, amd@space.mit.edu
- (Ann M.
- >Davis) writes...
- >>Whether intended or not, the message my friends and I got from the
- >>letter was "If 'we' (NESFA), don't know you (personally), you can't
- come"
-
- >A number of people read that into the letter; it was definitely not
- intended,
- >and we regret that people took it that way.
-
- "Can't come" is too strong. However, the letter explicitly states that
- persons under the age of 18 will be treated differently depending on
- whether or not they are personnally known.
-
- The whole tone of the letter is that the clock was being turned back
- many
- years, that long time Boskone members were welcome and their opinions
- would be given weight but most of the newbie riff-raff was being tossed
- except those who were interested in the re-oriented Boskone and could
- attend on probation. As the owner of Boskone, NESFA was certainly
- entitled to do that, and I think it is very close to the model many
- NESFAns had of excatly what they wanted to do.
-
- >While many people took the letter as we intended, enough didn't so
- that (IMHO)
- >it evidently was not as clearly-written as it should have been; in
- our defense,
- >all I can say is that it was written in a period of high stress and
- little
- >available time.
-
- I think you are trying to re-write history Dave. It seems to me that
- NESFA
- explicitly voted to take the actions it did and send out the letter,
- because it
- felt it was necessary to save Boskone, knowing full well that thousands
- people would be offended and there would be a lingering bitterness for
- years.
- Boskone is free to present itself as it wishes for its current
- incarnations.
- I should think people would be willing to forgive what they see as
- offense
- sooner or later. But I think it is a bad idea to say that NESFA meant
- no
- offense years ago when it took actions it knew full well would offend
- many people.
-
- > Dave (anderson@allvax.enet.dec.com)
-
- Donald
- (guess I'll try posting this to see if I can keep it with the previous
- thread)
-