Yep, just checked the damn spam folder and there was a recent note from them.
I just responded, but from what they said it may be too late at this point.

jms

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I have not seen any emails from them. I do know that literally several hundred
of my emails ended up being auto-routed to the spam courtesy of the AOL system
(which I only discovered was happening by accident, and who knows what ended up
in there). But the last I heard, they asked if I was interested, I said
yes...and that was that. The contract, to my knowledge, didn't come in via
email, I do know I didn't sign one...I figured they'd get to me sooner or
later. But perhaps they ended up in the spam folder.


jms

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PS...which is the long way of saying that it was still on my calendar and as
far as I knew, I was still planning to attend.

jms

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>I'm keeping my fingers crossed that you'll be able to come anyways.
>Could you please tell us when you know anything definite? (Because if
>you won't be attending Fedcon I'm definetely going to sell my ticket!)

I found the toggle to turn the spam filter off completely (all the ads for
breast enlargement that I could ever hope for are now cluttering the mailbox),
and have received a note from FedCon at last...but it looks as though --
assuming from not hearing anything that I'd changed my mind, which is absurd
because I've never done something like that and there are other ways to find me
other than email that should have been used before making that assumption --
they've reallocated the money that would've been used to bring me out there to
other guests. So it may not be able to work out now for this year. We'll see,
but it seems doubtful at this point.

This is one of the problems in JUST relying on email.

jms

(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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