I agree with you on the teeth grinding - about any group, not just SCA - and think that your generic notation about period and place are perfectly appropriate for this group. LynnD
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Rebecca Lucas <quokkaqu...@hotmail.com>wrote: > > <<snip>> > > > It IS very offputting, for a non-SCA member, to join a list for costume > > or some other historic interest, and then have to deal with a constant > > "We are the m'Lord and M'Lady, and everyone else is mundane" attitude. > <<snip>> > > Too true! For a while I was running a mailing list that would attract the > occasional SCAdian, and they would blithely assume that everyone else was in > the SCA too. It made me grind my teeth, let me tell you. > > But the point I was trying to make, was if the list is concerned about > recruiting/retaining new blood, and where everyone has wandered off to, is > it really worth having a 'warning' on the sign-up page that has apparently > outlived it's usefulness? A one-line "This list is not exclusive to members > of [insert organisations here], please do not assume that everyone is > thinking about the same time period and place, to prevent any confusion" is > probably nicer than an entire paragraph singling out one group. :) > > ~Rebecca > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
