Re: Origins Game Con

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 21:43:15 -0400 (EDT), "Mark 'Indy' Kochte"
<kochte@stsci.edu> wrote:

> I certainly never considered it any other way (so gullible
>me, I believed that the 25,000 or so at GenCon were all individuals,
>not multiple counts of attendees)

That's how they do it. But so do a lot of other organizations. Things
that
sell tickets do it, because you can't tell the difference between a
ticket
from someone who attended one day and a ticket by someone attending four
days.
The numbers are usually "X people over Y days". GenCon can tell the
difference, since they sell passes and not tickets. I'm sure there's
probably
some sort of accounting rule behind it.

Allan Goodall		       awg@sympatico.ca
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