[Artemisia] Newsletter Production Stipends

[Ashley Aedo]

I think everyone who is responding to the issue right now on the Aerie can
be assumed to have at least some access to recreational internet, so perhaps
the claims on egocentricity are a little unfair.  I have no doubt that
e-newsletters could be a burden on a small number of people in the SCA, but
I think the board is rightly trying to cut costs in whatever way they can
without sacrificing aspects of the game that are actually important.  If
it's a choice between not having a paper newsletter and not having, say,
heavy fighting, I will wholeheartedly choose to do away with the paper
newsletter.  SCA Inc is continuously trying to do more with less, and of all
the decisions that have to be made, and this one seems obvious compared to
the alternatives.


Ashley/Mags


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> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:05:17 +0000
> From: Allen Hall <dukealan at q.com>
> Subject: Re: [Artemisia] Fwd: [Announcements] Newsletter Production
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> Belladonna,
>
> I have been a Baronial Chronicler as well.  I have been the Baronial
> Seneschal 3 times, the Baronial Knight Marshal 2 times, the Principality
> Seneschal, the 1st InterKingdom Advisory Council representative for
> Atenveldt, the Kingdom Earl Marshal for four years, and am now the Kingdom
> Equestrian marshall.  Thank you for advising me of all the work involved in
> being a chronicler...but I'm quite aware of it.
>
> Entitlement?  You obviously don't know me at all.
>
> I'm sure you're familiar with the term "egocentricy".  Even if I can't
> spell it correctly, it means that a person presumes that everyone else
> thinks the same as them.  Wrong.
>
> Several people have mentioned their personal situation doesn't allow for
> easy internet access.  It may seem strange to some, but take a look at the
> map of Artemisia.  You'll see MANY small little towns, some with limited
> access to Internet what-so-ever.  And yes, some of those areas only have
> dial-up.  Do you remember what dial-up is?  Suffice it to say it's a
> different way to spell SLOW.   Sometimes slow to the point that your
> computer just plain freezes up.
>
> Your assumption that everyone has the same easy access to internet that you
> do is incorrect.  Your assumption that everyone is as adept as cruising the
> internet as you, is incorrect.  Your assumption that if someone...nevermind.
>  I hope you get the idea by now.  You should consider empathizing with their
> situation rather than dismissing it.
>
>
>
> The way we work out problems is finding out what the problems are and then
> finding ways to work them out, for the maximum number of people possible.
>  Summarily dismissing someone's idea with "...that sounds good on the
> surface..." when the situation has only been presented to us for a few days
> is a bit hasty.  Even Society hasn't locked anything in stone.  Believe it
> or not, Society has started off in one direction, and through the gentle
> persuasion of SCA members, changed their path.  Trust me on that.  Been
> there and done that.
>
> If this seem harsh, I'm sorta sorry.  But it's much milder than it started
> off being...
>
> Alan
>