[MR] RE: heraldry

[Michael Houghton]

Howdy!

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 03:10:01PM -0700, Christofe DuBois wrote:
> 
> Pedro wrote:
> 
> > Christofe:
> >
> > > Actually, only a representative group of heralds would need to be able
> > > to scan...  submissions could still be drafted the conventional way, and
> > > the heralds could scan the submission and send it to interkingdom
> > > sources in a digital format for review...
> >
> > You're making the assumption that most commenters are as well
> > linked as you are. That's not necessarily the case.
> 
> Perhaps, then, such linking (or access to) should be a requirement for
> Heraldic office.  We make much stricter requirements on many participants in
> the Society, so I don't think this to be totally unreasonable...  (Even if a
> fighter builds everything but his helm, he'll drop $200 on that...)

I don't think this is yet a reasonable requirement to assume, unlike, say
that of telephone access. 
> 
> > > I've already volunteered to set up an online, searchable, dynamically
> > > updated heraldry db, but pretty much got ignored, I guess, since it's
> > > been about a year...

What do you mean by "dynamic"? What would you propose to include in that 
database? How would this differ from the presently available electronic
Armorial and Ordinary (updated roughly quarterly)?
> >
> > To whom did you speak? Morsulus Herald (Magister Herveus
> > d'Ormonde, who's recently posted here) is the keeper of the
> > Ordinary and the Armorial.
> 
[snip]
> 
> Is Magister Herveus d'Ormonde the Society representative or the Kingdom
> Herald?
> 
Morsulus Herald is a Laurel staff position -- a Society level herald.
That would be me.

yours,
Herveus, Morsulus
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