SC - Help for Novices - was Recipes 5 & 6

[Bonne of Traquair]

Juliana suggests some sort of "Welcome Wagon" type post be sent to newcomers 
on the SCA-cooks list

Most of the sorts of basic queries, curiosities and wonderings of those new 
to the cooks list can be satisfied by "Stefan's Flori-thingy", more 
correctly known as Stefan's Florilegium (I seem to be one of the few that 
can spell it without fear) located at www.florilegium.org.

SCA-cooks isn't the only list Stefan collects information from, so this 
advice applies to most any SCA sub-culture as well as general SCA 
information.  The groupings and sub-groupings are mostly logical, though 
sometimes you do find things where you don't expect or can't find things in 
a spot that seems sensible to you.  Feel free to ask the list, or Stefan for 
advice when this happens.  You can work your way to Cariadoc's Miscellany 
from there, or from the SCA home page (www.SCA.org)  A search on 
"miscellany" will also get you there, on every search engine I've ever 
tried.  ditto for "florilegium".

Other good places to look are your kingdom or more local group webpage, 
which may have A&S links or an A&S page. Not surprisingly, a lot of these 
send you to the Florilegium or the Miscellany when you click on the various 
topics.  But not always.

And finally, while you can type in a specific address to privately ask a 
question of a listmember, there's no reason not to go ahead and post the 
question on the list.  There might be 20 other lurking newcomers who are 
more shy than you, or not-so-newcomers who haven't thought up that question 
yet.  Don't be nervous.  We won't bite.  Attribute any "bite" you may 
perceive as simply an element of electronic communication rather than taking 
it personally.  In all liklihood, the person responded late at night at 
home, or in a hurry during a break at work and simply didn't have time to 
make other than a curt statement.

"Documentation, please?" will be seen a lot in response to informative 
posts.  It's not a challenge to to the statement, merely a request for the 
completing proof.  Sometimes, it results in documentation the rest of us 
didn't have yet.  Sometimes it results in defining a new way of looking at 
old documentation.  Sometimes it merely allows the original poster to 
discover they've been working with stereotypes rather than facts.  At any 
rate, more than one of us usually learns something as a result of that 
little request.

Bonne

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