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From sherman@trln.lib.unc.edu Wed Jun 30 10:43:36 1993
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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1993 13:44:52 EDT
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From: "Dennis R. Sherman" <sherman@trln.lib.unc.edu>
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To: andrew@bransle.ucs.mun.ca, WEW@naucse.cse.nau.edu
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Message-Id: <0096ECD5.323F5940.30117@trln.lib.unc.edu>
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Subject: sca-faq/part01
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Status: OR
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Newsgroups: rec.org.sca,rec.answers,news.answers
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Subject: rec.org.sca / Rialto Frequently Asked Questions - part01/04
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From: dennis_sherman@unc.edu
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Followup-To: poster
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Summary: FAQs with Answers for the Rialto - rec.org.sca and mailing
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list sca@mc.lcs.mit.edu. The Society for Creative Anachronism is
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an organization that studies the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and
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recreates those parts we find most interesting.
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Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu
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Archive-name: sca-faq/part01
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Last-modified: 06/30/1993
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rec.org.sca and sca@mc.lcs.mit.edu FAQ
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or
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Questions Frequently Asked on the Rialto
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Certain topics come up again and again on the Rialto. They are good
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questions, but each time they recur much net bandwidth and reader time is
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spent on repetitive responses and corrections to incorrect or incomplete
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answers.
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This article, which is posted in several parts on a regular basis,
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attempts to cover these common topics definitively and succinctly, so
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that discussion doesn't get bogged down in the repetition. The complete
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list is available via FTP from
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rtfm.mit.edu in directory /pub/usenet/rec.org.sca. Those without
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FTP access should send e-mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with "send
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usenet/news.answers/finding-sources" in the body to find out how to do
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FTP by e-mail.
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For more complete introductions to the SCA, see the recurring postings
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"Come on in -- the water's fine" (by Hal Ravn [whheydt@pacbell.com] ) and
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"Life in the Current Middle Ages." (by Arval Benicour
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[mittle@watson.ibm.com] ).
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Table of Contents (Items changed since last posting marked with *)
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Part 01:
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Section 1: The Rialto.
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1.1 What is the Rialto? What's it for?
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1.2 Why is it called the Rialto?
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1.3 How do I post to the Rialto?
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1.4 What is the SCA Digest? How do I get on/off it?
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1.5 Where can I get back issues of the Digest?
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1.6 Why do I see the answers before the questions?
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1.7 Am I allowed to publish Rialto postings in our newsletter?
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Part 02:
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Section 2: Other SCA electronic sources.
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* 2.1 Are there other SCA mailing lists?
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* 2.1.1 What other mailing lists of interest are there?
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* 2.2 Are there archives of SCA information?
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2.3 Does anyone have a contact in...?
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* 2.4 What are the Rolls Ethereal?
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2.5 What's this alt.sca I found?
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* 2.6 Where can I get songs and lyrics?
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Part 03:
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Section 3: Miscellaneous questions.
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3.1 What does AS stand for?
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3.2 Other abbreviations.
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3.3 Why don't we have a badge for all the Rialto people...?
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3.4 What is Period?
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Section 4: Recurring events.
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4.1 What is Pennsic? When is Pennsic?
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4.2 What is Estrella? When is Estrella?
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4.3 What is Lilies? When is Lilies?
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Section 5: Difficult Topics.
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5.1 Same-Sex Consorts.
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5.2 Selecting the Crown.
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Section 6: How do you join the SCA?
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Part 04:
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Guide to Posting Style.
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Section 1: The Rialto.
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1.1 What is the Rialto? What's it for?
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The Rialto consists of a Usenet newsgroup, (rec.org.sca) which is
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propagated to thousands of machines world-wide, and an electronic mail
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digest (the SCA Digest), which is produced on a badly overworked
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machine at MIT, and mailed directly to hundreds of people, also
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world-wide. We are also connected to Fidonet and other BBS networks.
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The Rialto exists to discuss topics of interest to the Society
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for Creative Anachronism. The SCA is a non-profit, educational
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organization of people that study the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and
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recreate those parts we find most interesting.
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1.2 Why is it called the Rialto?
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The Rialto is named for a marketplace in Venice in the vicinity of
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the Rialto bridge. As people gathered there to gossip and exchange
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ideas, so do we gather here.
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1.3 How do I post to the Rialto?
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Check with your local system administrator or sysop for
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instructions for your exact machine and software. Generally, you
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either post a message to the newsgroup rec.org.sca, or send mail to
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sca@mc.lcs.mit.edu. See Part 4 of this posting for guidelines to
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posting style.
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1.4 What is the SCA Digest? How do I get on/off it?
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The SCA Digest is the electronic mail version of the Rialto. One
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can subscribe and unsubscribe by sending email to
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SCA-Request@mc.lcs.mit.edu, requesting your addition to or deletion
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from the list. Expect this to take up to a week - the people running
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the Digest are volunteers with other work to do. If you read
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rec.org.sca, there is no need for you to subscribe to SCA-Request, as
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messages are gatewayed in both directions.
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1.5 Where can I get back issues of the Digest?
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You may ask for back issues of any digests by writing to
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SCA-Request@mc.lcs.mit.edu and specifying the date(s)/number(s) of the
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issue you want mailed to you. That address is serviced by overworked
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humans so expect any request to take up to a week to process. Please
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be reasonable about the number of back issues you request.
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("Everything up to now" is *not* reasonable :-)
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1.6 Why do I see the answers before the questions?
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The short answer is that messages propagate from one system to
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another at varying speeds, and therefore an answer posted on a
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well-connected machine may arrive at a less-well-connected machine
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before the question does. The longer answer requires paying attention
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to the fact that the Rialto is both a Usenet newsgroup and a mailing
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list, and the gateway between them is another place where the ordering
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of messages can be scrambled. There is nothing that can easily (read
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cost-effectively) be done about the scrambling of message order (it
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would require a complete redesign of the Usenet newsgroups, just to
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start with) so please don't ask. This message scrambling, by the way,
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is a good reason to paraphrase or quote just enough of the message you
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are answering to make clear what you are talking about.
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1.7 Am I allowed to publish Rialto postings in our newsletter?
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The legalities of copyright ownership in an electronic medium
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are currently murky. In countries that are signatories to the Berne
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Convention (which includes the USA and Canada), text is copyrighted
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from the moment of creation. However, text submitted to newsgroups
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and digests _may_ be different, as it is intended for a wide
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distribution. There is no clear answer in the USA at the present
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time. The polite thing to do, regardless of whether a lawyer would
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tell you it is necessary, is contact the author(s) of the article(s)
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in question, and ask for permission to publish. Abide by their
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wishes. Assuming permission is given, you (or your chronicler)
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probably want to save a hardcopy of the message giving you
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permission.
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---------- End of Part 01 ----------
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========================================================================
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Thanks to all who have contributed to this article.
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This article is a work in progress. If you have other topics you'd like to
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see included, send me email with the question(s) and your suggested
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answer(s). If you have comment on the items included, please send me
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(polite) email.
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PLEASE DO NOT COMMENT ON THIS ARTICLE ON THE RIALTO! ! !
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The whole point of this effort is to reduce traffic. I will summarize
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comments sent to me, if it seems necessary.
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--
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Robyyan Torr d'Elandris Kapellenberg, Windmaster's Hill Atlantia
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Dennis R. Sherman Triangle Research Libraries Network
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dennis_sherman@unc.edu Univ. of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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