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From: "Douglas Nicol" <Douglasnicol at btinternet.com>
Date: 3 Jun 2001 09:54:04 -0700
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SciFi Enthusiast <scifienthusiast at aol.com> wrote in message
news:20010602153737.21330.00002026 at ng-co1.aol.com...
> >From: jmsatb5 at aol.com  (Jms at B5)
>
> >That was one of the major concerns that I had based on the last Wolf con
I
> >attended, there seemed to be a fair amount of this going on, and an
attitude
> >that seemed almost to encourage such things.
>
> What gets me is that, if I understand things correctly, fans still attend
their
> conventions and shop their dealers room. I feel we fans have a certain
duty to
> do what we can to put an end to these sorts of illegal and unethical
practices.
> And we do have the power.
>
> People (such as the ones behind these Wolf 359 conventions) are obviously
in it
> purely for the money, therefore, if fans withhold their financial support
then
> their activities in this area would be greatly curtailed. IOW, this is not
just
> JMS's or Mira Furlan's fight but ours as well. In my opinion, we ALL need
to be
> vigilant and proactive in combating these types of frauds.
>

I didn't get a great impression of the Wolf organisation from that con.
IOt's the only one I've been too, so I can't really do comparisons.  I am on
a very limited budget and thought, if I go to any con, make it this one due
to the number of guests there.
I didn't get much of an impression of organisation due to the queing
debacle, and the infamous heat alarm that went off.
Someone I was talking to, I mentioned her in an earlier post, volunteered to
be a steward, and said that they only had a quarter of the people they
needed, and the fact that the main organisers seemed to be trying to treat
the guests as their own personal property.

However, despite all that, I did enjoy myself, and wish to extend a belated
thank you to JMS, John Copeland, and the rest of the cast and crew who
attended for what was, for me, a unique event.
I think in retrospect this one will be remembered more for the rift with
Claudia rather than anything else.

Douglas




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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 3 Jun 2001 14:57:36 -0700
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>Someone I was talking to, I mentioned her in an earlier post, volunteered to
>be a steward, and said that they only had a quarter of the people they
>needed, and the fact that the main organisers seemed to be trying to treat
>the guests as their own personal property.

Yeah, there was a lot of that, glomming onto people in an ingratiating kind of
way to engender personal loyalty.  There was also, in my view, a deliberate
attempt to create a rift between the cast and the producers for control
reasons, and to create a buffer against any criticisms I or John or others
might bring.

 jms

(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
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