[Sca-cooks] How to cite SCA cooks messages

Antonia Calvo ladyadele at paradise.net.nz
Wed Dec 3 14:23:52 PST 2008


Suey wrote:

> Henceforth Terry Decker and Kingstaste prefer their names while 
> Antonia Calvo wants to be asked.  Now if a message is 10 years old, 
> the sender has changed his email address and is no longer an SCA 
> member then what? Total I submitted this question to simplify my life 
> not to complicate it. When I cite a book I do not have to write to the 
> author to ask him what name to be used. If I have to contact every 
> electronic source I may publish in the year 3,000 or not at all. Nay. 
> There should be a rule in thumb such as if signed "Bear" then the text 
> should be cited as from "Bear" . . . or if from Terry Decker then 
> cited as Decker, Terry - one way or the other - . . . but I think it 
> impossible to satisfy every whim.



May I ask where and why you want to cite posts on discussion lists?

-- 
Antonia di Benedetto Calvo

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