[Sacredstone] Questions about elist

[Murienne l'aloiere]

(this email is being posted to both the yahoo group and the server based
elist so that all of the Barony has a chance to see and discuss the topic)

So Lord Luther asked a couple of questions about the server based e-list
yesterday. I have added his questions below....

*Just a curiousity question, but I thought the new elist was official, that
was the reason it was being switched from the yahoo list so it could be.I
was told this was a done deal and pretty much over with.
I also thought groups were pretty much being made to switch to kingdom
servers yet I see groups in the Midrealm still using yahoo and telling me
they have no clue about a switch being imposed. is this just a Kingdom
thing?
Luther*
*So does this mean that the new improved list that wasn`t supposed to
change anything, actually does change things and doesn`t offer what yahoo
does?
Luther*
The first question asked was about an agenda item for the upcoming meeting.
The item is a discussion and possibly vote on making the server based
e-list an official form of communication for the group. So in answer to
that question I have this.
In the email about the server based list that I sent on January 23rd I
stated *"**In addition we can eventually choose to add the e-list to our
forms of official communication, if we choose."*
When the vote was taken to move the e-list to the kingdom server we did not
vote to make it an official form of communication. Right now the server
based e-list is not official nor is the yahoo group. That is something that
needed a separate vote. One of the reasons is that on an official list all
communications are actually official. This is very new territory for us as
a group. This could mean that eventually all activities (i.e. fighter
practices, art nights, etc...) would be consider official and be treated as
such. This also means that I person could post their "vote" on a matter to
the list and that could act as their proxy for a vote they could not
attend. Also it gives the opportunity for actions to be taken quicker in
case of a needed change to a polling or other activity.  Right now our only
"official" form of communication is the Baronial Newsletter.

Next, Lord Luther inquired about whether other kingdoms were switching to
using their servers for communications....
On January 23rd I wrote* "**The webminister's office has expressed a desire
to eventually have groups house their e-lists on the SCA servers just as
they have with the websites. No we are not being told we have to do this" *
I think I should have added the word Atlantia to that. :)  I don't know
what other kingdoms are doing. The kingdom Webminister's office and
Seneschal's office have expressed the desire to have all SCA related
activities online such as e-lists and websites hosted on the
atlantia.sca.org server. I do want to restate again that this is NOT
something that is being imposed on us. It is something that has been
suggested to help centralize communications, and to give us more support if
it is needed.

The last question Lord Luther asked was a response to Lord Christophe's
post about the archery community having a list so that he could post files.

Also on January 23rd (man I wrote a lot that day!) I wrote *"*All of the
files from the old list will be backed up and housed on the Baronial
website. This will take a bit of time to get handled so please every one be
patient with that process as well. Baron Talorgeon has it on his list of
items to do in regards to the kingdom hosted lists to make file storing and
attachments available. So until that becomes a reality we will host them
ourselves.*" *
The day to day workings of the elist are not changed on the server based
list.  You post a message from your email, it goes to the list, the list
sends it to those on the list getting emails, and archives it for future
reference.
Currently the Kingdom server list doesn't support files being added to a
file section. But as I stated in the above email. This is something that
the Kingdom Webminister is working to make available. In the mean time we
have a wonderful website that is maintained by Lady Annora Hall that is
capable of hosting any and all files that we might need access to as a
group.
This issue was brought up at the meeting where the vote was taken and it
was decided that we were ok with files being housed on the Baronial website
until the server list could give us the ability to host them there.

I hope  that I have been able to answer the questions you were having.

Lady Murienne, Seneschal
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