[BG-heralds] Fwd: 1 BG-heralds moderator request(s) waiting (fwd)

[Tim McDaniel]

I went looking for the replies on this topic in the archives, and
found nothing.  Looking in my mailbox, I see they went only to me.  On
this list, Reply-To is not set, so most mailers' reply function will
send only to the person. When you hit Reply, check the addressees.
-- DdL

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:38:10 -0500
From: Coblaith Muimnech <Coblaith at sbcglobal.net>
To: Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com>
Subject: Re: [BG-heralds] Fwd: 1 BG-heralds moderator request(s) waiting (fwd)

Daniel and Dreda discussed a pending subscription request from someone they 
couldn't identify: "cuteolpuddytat at yahoo.com (Andre)".

His registered S.C.A. name is "Andri de Chartres", though he usually goes by 
"André".  I remember him, vaguely.  He moved away from Bryn Gwlad some time 
ago, but is still subscribed to our mailing list and always asks to be included 
in the participants' registry when we do one.  His Facebook page is at 
<http://www.facebook.com/WritersaurusRex>, but his profile picture is his coat 
of arms so there's no photo to refer to.


Daniel asked:
> But what do people want the subscription policy to be?  Anyone who asks and 
> doesn't spam?  Heralds or herald-symps in Bryn Gwlad, like Johann or Laszlo?

My first impulse is to say that anyone who's interested in participating in or 
learning from discussions on heraldry or names should be welcome.  It might be 
an opportunity to promote a higher level of general knowledge about heraldry in 
the barony, and perhaps eventually get a few more people "trained up" to do 
consultations.  The two potential reasons that I see to restrict membership 
more are (1) concerns about "hurt feelings" on the part of potential submitters 
who don't like hearing the truth about silly names and poorly-designed armory, 
which might make it hard for us to hold efficient discussions via the list and 
(2) concerns about what Mari calls "the signal-to-noise ratio", which, should 
it get too low, might make the list less than useful.

I guess the big question is:  What do we want to get out of the Bryn Gwlad 
Heralds list that we couldn't have just as easily gotten from the kingdom or 
Society list, and would opening it up to all comers compromise our efforts to 
get that?


Coblaith Muimnech
<mailto:Coblaith at sbcglobal.net>
<http://coblaith.net>