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[Alan MacNeill]

E-mail is not the best communication tool the Kingdom has.

There is no guarantee that it gets delivered, there is no guarantee it
gets read, there is no guarantee it goes to all paying members (some
folks don't have computers), there are a million reasons it's not
appropriate to use e-mail as the "Official" repository of knowledge
and policy changes.

As a "Oh, this is coming up in the next Acorn, but I'm letting you
know now" tool, it's awesome.  The Acorn doesn't always arrive as
early as we may all want it, but it does arrive, and if it doesn't
arrive, folks know to check on it.  The Acorn also has the advantage
of being a controlled document, only the Kingdom Chronicler creates it
(with as much help as they can get).  It would be trivial for me (or
any other competent IT professional who have access to e-mail
servers), if I wanted to, to forge an e-mail to the Merry Rose
claiming to be Logan and say that all Kingdom events must be held on
sites containing at least 10 shrubberies.  It would be nowhere near
trivial to accomplish that with the Acorn.

E-mail lists are good for quick communication, they are not good for
official communication.

On 11/29/07, V Small <lordprobitas at gmail.com> wrote:
> My fellows,
> Is there some way to go about getting that changed?  This list is the only
> means of communicating to the vast citizenry of Atlantia.  Once again, we
> are living in a real world and many of us are paying members.  This is the
> best communication tool the Kingdom has.  Or again, is it only for a certain
> few?