[MR] announcement lists, period tent info

[Stefan li Rous]

Cassandra di Falchieri said:
<<< Still considering myself a newcomer, I know I get extremely  
disheartened and discouraged reading many of the posts on this list  
(for the most part, they are exceedingly negative). And, it isn't as  
simple as "deleting", because the digests contains so many messages.  
Not to mention, trying to reading them on my "smart phone" is  
cumbersome because they aren't truncated and often run on and on and  
on and ... but I digress :).>>>

Often, because people often include the whole message they are  
replying to, I do find it difficult to separate on the digest which  
are the grains of interest from all the chaff and as you mention, you  
can't simply delete a message or a message thread on the digest that  
has out-lived its use.

On the otherhand, for some kingdoms that have separate announcement- 
only lists, I am banned from sending my monthly Florilegium article to  
those lists, so I am biased against such lists. Unless things are  
watched carefully and planned for, sometimes the creation of an  
announcement-only list, increases the list bandwidth, since you get  
one message on the announcement-only list and then another copy on the  
regular list.

<<<  That is one of the reasons I originally joined the MR, looking  
for a "period" tent (though that is but a mere dream because the  
prices requested FAR exceed my budget ... if I'd only know - lol).>>>

Only known what?

A period-style tent can often be made fairly cheaply. Different styles  
and the size of the tent will have a big effect upon the price of a  
tent. If you want a big, flashy pavilion, commercially made, that is a  
lot more expensive than buying some canvas painter's drop clothes and  
sewing a common soldier's tent.  The cheapest way is to buy the canvas  
in bulk and then you and some friends sew it together. If you check  
the STRUCTURES section of the Florilegium, You can a lot of info on  
buying canvas and materials in bulk.

Another way, depending upon how much you will be using your tent, and  
in what weather, is to make of buy a canvas roof and then make the  
walls out of  thinner, and cheaper, cotton sheeting.

Tents can be adapted or chosen to fit all types of travel vehicles.

A couple of examples of Florilegium tent files:
Pavilions-101-art (16K) 6/28/99 "Pavilions 101" by Lady Giovanna  
Theresa Battista di Firenze.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/DWELLINGS/Pavilions-101-art.html

Select-a-Tent-art (20K) 10/31/09 "Selecting A Tent For SCA Camping" by  
Amr ibn Majid al-Bakri al-Amra.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/DWELLINGS/shade-pavilns-msg.html
tent-fabrics-msg (49K) 8/26/10 Fabrics and treatments to use in tents.

http://www.florilegium.org/files/DWELLINGS/tent-fabrics-msg.html

tent-sources-msg (80K) 9/24/08 Pavilion and canvas merchants.

http://www.florilegium.org/files/DWELLINGS/tent-sources-msg.html

tent-transprt-msg (10K) 12/27/01 Transporting tents and pavilions.

http://www.florilegium.org/files/DWELLINGS/tent-sources-msg.html

I hope this gives you, or others, a place to start.

Stefan

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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas          StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
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