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- From: rkolker@nuchat.sccsi.com (Rich Kolker)
- Subject: Re: What really happened after Boskone 24 (was Re: Arisia vs. Boskone)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.035045.13082@nuchat.sccsi.com>
- Organization: South Coast Computing Services, Inc.
- References: <9212311816.AA20997@enet-gw.pa.dec.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 03:50:45 GMT
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- In article <9212311816.AA20997@enet-gw.pa.dec.com> dee@ranger.enet.dec.com ("Donald E. Eastlake 3rd, LJO2/I4, 1-508-486-2358 31-Dec-1992 1315") writes:
- >>From: rkolker@nuchat.sccsi.com (Rich Kolker)
- >>I think there's a bit of rose colored glasses viewing going on here. I
- >>attended the last big Boskone, including the sessions held discussing
- >>the changes planned for the following year. There is no question that
- >>Boskone had gotten to the point that something needed to change. However,
- >>the way that was gone about left very much to be desired. The attitude
- >>of the organizers IMHO as represented at the session to discuss the
- >>topic was adversarial to say the least.
- >
- >To be fair, you should note that the attitudes of a few of the attendees was
- >at least as adversarial. There were people explicitly and vocally demanding
- >the NESFA sponsor and put in the work to run a convention for them the way they
- >wanted it regardless of what the members of NESFA wanted.
- >
- Fair enough. It was very vocal on both sides. As a matter of fact,
- I remember getting very vocal about it at the meeting. Of course, I
- was getting very little sleep, and was close to the height of my
- "for the good of fandom" phase.
-
- I vaguely remember arguing this with you here back then.
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