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From: brust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Boskone
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Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 16:48:08 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  7 16:48:08 1985
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> From: Marla (Selinger@Ru-Blue) <SELINGER@RU-BLUE.ARPA>
> 
> 
> 
> 	"I also was informed several times that the lousy 
> 	 film/video schedule was deliberate, because they 
> 	 didn't want riff-raff (no not him!) off the streets 
> 	 coming in just to see the movies."
> 
> Hmm, I had thought the quality of this year's schedule was far below
> last year's.  If true, this reason is inexcusable.  That's what BADGES
> are for!  To keep the riff-raff out, or at least to get $22 out of him
> first! 
> 
> Well, I'll give them one more try next year...
> 
> Marla

I have some sympathy with a desire to a convention that is short on
attendence by those who are fans only of media SF.  It would seem that
a way to do that would be to cut out the film program.  Having a bad
film program would seem foolish.

                        -- SKZB