[Hellsgate] Midrealm Baron searching for Lady

[Tim McDaniel]

More precisely, I think that publishing Personal Identifying
Information (a real name, rank, location, et cetera) should be
avoided, giving SCA policy as a good example to follow (though perhaps
not applicable here).

I should explain how Da Heralds do it.  Looking for someone happens a
fair amount.  It happens when X registers something (a name, a device,
a badge), and a few years later Y wants to register something that's
close enough to conflict. Y *can* register IF X gives permission to
conflict (and if it's not identical to X's item).  But Y has to get a
letter from X.  The only public information is that X registered the
thing via such-and-so kingdom and the date.

So Y or their herald contacts the principal herald of the Bottomrealm
to say "We're trying to contact Lady Prunella Whappthwacket for
permission to conflict, and her last action was thru your kingdom".
Or someone contacts the filing staff of Laurel Principal King of Arms.
(I forget the name of the person in this case.)

Often enough, everyone knows Lady Prunella, or the forms say the old
submission came from the Barony of Mudswallow and the researcher
contacts someone there (an officer, someone they know, whatever), and
search info gets forwarded onward.

In a case where the legal name is probably needed, I might have
written to a public list "Lord Shergal-Narezer the Rab-Mag is looking
for someone named Lady Prunella Whappthwacket; anyone heard of her?",
and privately to the seneschal and herald "I also have a real name,
and he thinks she might be at Fort Hood.  Does anyone have a way to
determine who is stationed there and contact her?"  If the private
e-mail gets results, I'd contact the source personally and tell them
not to spread the legal-name info.

Eventually, if Lady Prunella is found, the finder gives the contact
info for Baron Thus-and-so to Lady Prunella and *Lady Prunella*
decides whether to contact Baron Thus-and-So.

If it were a letter of permission and if the letter were quoted in an
on-line submission, it would be quoted with "[legal name redacted]"
where the real legal name is on the letter.

Danihel de Lindecolina
-- 
Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com