Re: Offer of Aid concerning the Awards on Line idea

[Brenna <sunnie@exis.net>]

Poster: Brenna <sunnie@exis.net>

No offense to your excellency intended, but would it not be atall helpful to
require a submission to include your SCA name, address, phone membership number,
etc.... Anything that would help the anonamous and fraudulent part.  It is no
harder to post a fraudulent letter by mail than by e-mail.  Either way, the
message should include this type of information to be considered a usable
recommendation.  If you can't check back on the sender in every way, it should
be chunked to avoid this problem.

Brenna of Lyonsbane

Logan & Arielle wrote:

> Poster: Logan & Arielle <sirlogan@mail.clt.bellsouth.net>
>
> Kevin I see two problems with e-mail awards recommendations.  First, it is
> too easy to set up an anonymous e-mail account, and even though those can be
> deciphered to find the original poster, there is always the situation where
> someone at school gets his 32 classmates to post similar messages via an
> anonymous address, thus deluging the recipient (be it King/Queen or
> Baron/Baroness).  Secondly, it is far too lazy.  If you don't feel strong
> enough about an award recommendation to sit down and type/write (legibly
> PLEASE)that letter then shame on you.  It must not mean enough to you to
> take the time.  As King I received around 100 e-mails per day.  Now I get
> something like 30.  No more than 5 or 10 were award recommendations but most
> of the total where due to the fact that I was King.  If it were me, I
> certainly would not want to make it any easy, or harder to track, then
> having people sit down and write a letter.
>
> Duke Logan
>
> ps I will respond privately to your last message to me soon
>
> Kevin of Thornbury wrote:
>
> > Poster: Kevin of Thornbury <kevin@maxson.com>
> >
> > Greetings unto Cheapside from Lord Kevin of Thornbury, Atlantia's Web
> > Minister!
> >
> > rmhowe wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't know who forwarded my post, but here's what came back to me:
> > > I'm not that websmart, and I don't have a server - but I know some of
> > > you guys do....so, if they hand you the information, looks like they
> > > might, maybe we could use it. (Especially with half the work done).
> > > Magnus
> >
> > In fact, this could very easily be accomplished with or without the
> > gracious help from our friends in Northshield.  The real question is
> > whether or not Their Majesties and the Order Principals would like to
> > receive award recommendations via e-mail.  (I'd think they'd be thrilled
> > to receive these, but someone might have to pay extra for mail storage
> > and would be worried about being flooded with requests.  Any web page
> > that automatically generates a message has that possibility.)
> >
> > I'll look into it, and if it's feasible with the folks accepting the
> > letters, put it up on the kingdom's web server.
> >
> > I remain, true to Their Majesties' service,
> > _____
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