[Sca-cooks] For the folks in Lochac

[HICKS, MELISSA]

Replied privately.

Meliora
from Lochac

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan li Rous [mailto:stefan at texas.net]
> Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 5:12 PM
> To: SCA-Cooks maillist
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] For the folks in Lochac
>
>
> I'm addressing this to the folks in Lochac. I appologize to the rest
> of this list for taking up the bandwidth, but I don't know how to get
> on the Lochac list and I know there are a number of folks from Lochac
> on this list.
>
> After I sent a copy of my monthly Florilegium article to the Lochac
> list early in December, I got this reply from the Lochac list
> administrator.
>
> While I understand his concerns about spam mail, as sometimes half my
> mail can be spam, the alternatives that he suggests are not workable
> for me. I don't think handling one message from me per month is
> overwork since he is the one who set up the list as a moderated one.
> However, that is certainly within his perogative.
>
> I know that a number of folks in Lochac have been supportive of the
> Florilegium and have enjoyed getting the monthly article detailing
> what is new. I would hate to have to remove Lochac from the kingdoms
> and principalities that I send my monthly article to. However, I
> certainly don't want to try to post my article to anywhere it is not
> wanted. If that is the case here, please let me know and I'll drop
> this.
>
> Solution "a" below is not, I feel, a good one as it requires making
> a special article/message just for the Lochac list. I have a dozen or
> more kingdom lists to deal with. Also, part of my hope of sending the
> monthly article to the lists is that folks will see something they
> are interested in, and investigate it further. Sending a message
> with just a link to the article elsewhere defeats this. In addition,
> I already put out a special version of the monthly article modified
> for use on webpages and I've considered dropping that one because
> of the extra work involved.
>
> Solution "b" isn't feasible because I am dealing with, as mentioned
> above, a large number of lists. While staying on the Lochac list might
> be nice, I can barely keep up with SCA-Cooks, my kingdom list and a
> few others. I can't do this for the half dozen or more lists that are
> being closed to non-subscribers.
>
> What I would like to do, as I have done for several other lists, is
> to line up a deputy and possibly a backup for this person, who I
> would send the monthly article to and then have them forward it on
> to the Lochac list.
>
> Please feel free to forward this to the Lochac list if you feel it
> should be posted there. The stuff I've quoted from Conrad came by
> private email, but I'd rather not take the chance of garbling things
> if I paraphrase it.
>
> Thanks,
> Stefan
>
> > Stefan,
> > I have moderated your email through on this occassion (it came to me
> > because you are not subscribed to the list). I would
> appreciate it if in
> > future you could:
> > a) keep the mail a little shorter (our list would prefer
> just a simple
> > link to an html page with the update information on it).
> > b) subscribe to the list before you send the email, to
> avoid me having
> > to approve it each and every time. There is nothing stopping you
> > subscribing, sending the email and unsubscribing again
> (other than the
> > time it takes to do this). You are, of course, quite welcome to stay
> > subscribed on a permanent basis if you wish, though I can
> understand if
> > you feel the topic of conversation to be of little interest.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Conrad.
>
> --
> THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>    Mark S. Harris            Austin, Texas          stefan at texas.net
> **** See Stefan's Florilegium files at:
http://www.florilegium.org ****
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