ARCH - Questions For All Archers (Was : Archery Question)
Bob Dewart
gilli at seacove.net
Wed Jun 7 07:18:28 PDT 2000
Hi there,
It will be a while for a reply. Darcy doesn't have e-mail at work and to
night is populace meeting. I'm sure she'll get back to you as soon as she
can.
Gilli
-----Original Message-----
From: Rayburn, Timothy <TRayburn at healthaxis.com>
To: 'ansteorra-archery at ansteorra.org' <ansteorra-archery at ansteorra.org>
Date: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 9:10 AM
Subject: ARCH - Questions For All Archers (Was : Archery Question)
>***** Darcy said :
>The other day we had a lady come in to work who became rather loud and
>abusive because we would not make an exception for her on library policy.
>Pretty soon she knew more about how to run a library, with out ever having
>worked one day in one, than those of us who did. She also couldn't
>understand why we didn't jump at the chance of letting her, with her
>awesome computer knowledge, volunteer to retrocatalog our collect for the
>new automation system just because she didn't have a Masters in Library
>Science and didn't have an inkling about what cataloging is about.
>
>> What it boils down to is that none of us would have presumed to go into
>> her
>> place of business and tell her how to do her job without knowing what
is
>> involved in her work.
>> If you want to have more fun at archery be prepared to help with the
>> archery. If you want a herald at the archery range then be that herald.
>> But don't be surprised if the archers who are already working the
>> archery
>> ranges are tired and grumpy and overworked already and not all that
>> thrillled about trying to do more things on the range because there are
>> lots
>> of people who come done to shoot and lots of people who have suggestions
>> about how to improve the ranges but very few of them who volunteer to do
>> the work.
>>
>>
>***** Timothy of Glastonbury replied :
>
>Pardon, but am I yelling? Am I at the range telling you how to run it? I do
>not think I have.
>
>My understanding, I state again, was that this list was established to
>solicit ideas. If there are logical, workable, reasonable reasons why my
>suggestions are impractical, then tell me. It seems that every time a
>suggestion comes up, all that is given as a reply is "Do it yourself" or
>"Don't tell me how to run my range.", etc.
>
>So I ask the following questions to the whole of the archery community :
>
>Is there an interest to see new and different ideas on this list, and to
>discuss there merits and flaws?
>
>Would you like to see more head-to-head type competitions in archery?
>
>What makes someone an archer? Running a range? Shooting Targets? Shooting
>Combat Archery?
>
>
>
>Honor Super Gloria,
>
>Timothy of Glastonbury
>Archer?
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