[ANSTHRLD] August Gazette

[Alden Drake]

Tim McDaniel wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Hedwig von Luneborg <obeliskherald at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Sigillarius will post it to the web in .pdf format as always but I
>> will not be mailing out any hard copies.  I will however be mailing
>> the AG to those of you on the subscription list.  In fact I've just
>> done that this morning and I've had one email bounce.
>>     
>
> I'm totally confused.  You say you won't be mailing them, then you say
> that you have mailed them?  Maybe the second one should have been
> "e-mailing"?  If so: what subscription list are you talking about?
> I've not heard of an e-mail subscription list; I knew of the paper
> subscription list.  And speaking of that, I believe I'm a paid
> subscriber, though I've not seen paper in a while: where's the part
> about refunds?
>
> Has there been any considering of the fact that the original reason
> for the Ansteorran Gazette as a newsletter just went away?
> As I recall (but I'm fairly confident on this), Tadhg Liath, or
> possibly Da'ud, realized that he was paper-mailing the Ansteorran CoH
> with separate mailings for the internal letter, for any announcements
> and articles he wanted to send, and with LoI and LoAR results.  He
> realized that this was a lot of envelope stuffing and postage; he
> decided to consolidate it into one mailing per month, yclept The
> Ansteorran Gazette.
>
> Without snail mailing, that particular reason just went away.  Is
> there another benefit for one unified monthly document, as opposed to
> separate sections that could be posted individually?  Is there any
> "cost" (in the sense of labor, effort, delay, whatever) of rolling
> them into one document?  (If there's no "cost", then it can be a case
> of "*shrug*  No reason not to keep going.")
>
> Danielis Lincolia
>   
Continued publication of the Ansteorran Gazette was brought up at the 
Plenary Meeting at the last Round Table.  It is currently open for 
discussion.  People are welcome to express their views here, or email 
them to star at ansteorra.org.

Currently, my thinking is that the only thing not necessarily duplicated 
in the AG is the letter from Star.  This is particularly important 
however, because it is official communication from Star's office and as 
such, is required to be filed by heraldic officers, per the 
Administrative Handbook's officers' job description.  That means every 
heraldic officer should be filing a copy of it, or the AG in it's 
entirety, each month.

Also, I am in favor of keeping the AG (even if it's just emailed or 
downloaded from the website) because it is a one-stop source for all the 
information that would otherwise have to be gotten in pieces.  It is 
particularly useful for local branch heralds, as it provides one 
document in which they can track the progress of all the submissions 
sent up from their branch with relative ease, and note if there are any 
problems with the submissions at any point along the way.  This can 
potentially help speed up fixes.

If people are only interested in various components of the AG, they are 
free to have them emailed, or download them, individually still.  These 
items usually go live online a little bit before the AG is published, so 
they can be obtained a little faster that way.

In service,
Alden
Incoming Star