[Ponte Alto] Recruitment

[sabine at herald.sca.org]

> Is there another/better way to set up mail aliases then?  Are aliases
> needed  at all or can people just put in their real email address?  I
> sent notes to  _two different addresses_ from the Baronial Contacts
> Page/List and if both  went into the void then that's a major problem
> for recruitment/retention.   I'm a New Yorker (read: stubborn) so I
> started hunting down other contacts  and was going to try calling folks
> after that--- but my major point, and  fear, that inspired me to write
> to the list is this: what about a shy newbie  who just came to a
> practice or event once and have written to one or several  people one or
> more times?

I have to second what Bianca is saying here.  I have declined to play (in
other Kingdoms) with groups where contact attempts are ignored.  I am not
stubborn like Bianca.  I am arrogant. I figure (when I am active) I have
something to contribute to a group, and if they don't want me, I'll take
my skills elsewhere. In one case I recall a few kingdoms ago, I kept
running into members (and officers!) of a group I had given up on who
would rant about how other groups were siphoning off their members, and in
the meantime no one who tried to play with them could ever get a return
e-mail or phone call from any of the officers. It was mindboggling.

While living in Ponte Alto, I once sent an e-mail to 3 officers,
non-alias, about something, and got no response. It was an isolated
incident in an otherwise wellcoming and organized group.  But it
definitely came off to me as getting the cold shoulder, and if it were my
first contact with the group I'd have started e-mailing Ponte Alto's
neighbor's before I started looking for more Pontoons.

In short (I know, too late): No SCA group is a utopia, no one likes to be
criticized, but all officers can use a refresher course in curtesy once in
a while.

Sabine