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" jls" wrote:

Many of the people hereabouts have discussed
the ban on ice chests and are not attending this year. I'm not either. If
enough people boycott the sonsabitches enough to hurt their pocketbooks and
embarrass them a little, they'll stop that foolishness.

Fine, don't attend.

I don't think the organisers will notice.

The people that seem to suffer from attempts to drive the attendance
down, whether it's you, or whether it's a certain publisher's well-known
dispute/vendetta which has lasted about as long as the suit in Bleak
House, are the guys trying to introduce new stuff, and all the mom and
pop shops making a good product for a thankless, tiny constituency that
will cavil and cheat and gouge themselves.

I have never printed a word of it, but I've heard some pretty amazing
stuff from vendors about how some guy tries to shave them on a deal. Or
about the 90% of the people in the booth who are tyre kickers and
sharpshooters, but who will never, ever, buy or build. But they smile
and explain and tolerate know-it-alls, because somewhere in that booth
is one of the five or six customers they need to keep the doors open
till the next show.

FWIW I have raised the issue with said publisher. If ever there was a
case for constructive engagement, this is it.

cheers

-=K=-