akobayas%spica2.prime.com@RELAY.CS.NET (Andrew Kobayashi) (09/29/89)
This is a call for votes for creation of a new newsgroup, rec.org.sca.
This has been discussed the requisite length of time in news.groups.
It will be unmoderated, and gatewayed with SCA@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU as is the
current alt.sca, which group this one is intended to replace. Assisting
me in this endeavor is Bill Sommerfeld, who can be reached at
wesommer@athena.mit.edu.
The voting period will run for THIRTY DAYS, as per long and hallowed
tradition. (This is a change from the preliminary posting I did in
news.groups. Sorry, I was young and foolish then. :-) The voting
period will begin at NOON EDT on FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22nd, and extend until
NOON EDT on SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22nd.
To vote IN FAVOR of creation of rec.org.sca, send mail to
sca-yes@bloom-beacon.mit.edu, or {mit-eddie,garp}!bloom-beacon!sca-yes
To vote AGAINST creation of rec.org.sca, send mail to
sca-no@bloom-beacon.mit.edu or {mit-eddie,garp}!bloom-beacon!sca-no
For those of you reading this in the digest, please *DO NOT* post your
vote to the digest. It A) won't count, and B) will clutter up the
digest. *ONLY MAILED-IN VOTES COUNT*.
The Society for Creative Anachronism, Incorporated, is a non-profit,
educational, international organization, which attempts to re-create,
through the research and practice of its members, most aspects of the
Middle Ages for which there are written records. Though primarily
concerned with Europe, there are active contingents based in Middle
Eastern, African, Oriental, and even American cultures of the time
period. Of course since we are all actually twentieth-century people
there is also a lot of activity having to do with the interface between
our "Current Middle Ages" and the "real world", as well as the necessary
organizational overhead inherent in any largish group.
The membership runs from the scholar to the weekend warrior, from fairly
serious medievalists to fairly serious party animals. For whatever
reason the organization also runs heavily to high-tech types as well as
having those more skeptical or suspicious of the fruits of the modern age.
(And there are those of us who are both at once!) We try to accomodate
all as best we can. Uniting most is an ornry sort of individuality, a
strong sense of curiosity, and an equally strong sense of fun. Most of
all we are constantly comparing what was to what is, that we might
remember and use the good from history and learn from the bad.
One thing we are *not* which has particular relevance in this forum is
"living D&D". Many of us enjoy FRP games, but with very few exceptions,
none of which i can think of offhand, a cross-posting from any such
group to rec.org.sca will almost certainly be 1) inappropriate, and
2) not appreciated. Anyone in the SCA who is interested in FRP games
subscribes to the appropriate newsgroup. Really. That's not what
we do here.
This, then, is what we would discuss in the newsgroup. Our needs are
currently being partly fulfilled through another group, alt.sca, which
is also distributed as a mail digest for the many of us who can not
receive the alt hierarchy. The traffic is medium level and I at least
have found the signal-to-noise ratio to be exceptionally high. (This
is not to say that there aren't spirited *discussions*...:-) There is
also very little cross-posting. However there are many more who could
participate on a more regular basis if the discussion moved to the rec
hierarchy, and this is the course of action we propose.
With hopes that this all goes smoothly (can you say "booooring"? good. :-),
--Andrew Kobayashi/Master Kobayashi Yutaka
Boston Area,MA,UAS/Carolingia,East
akobayas@spica2.prime.com
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