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From: schuldy@zariski.harvard.edu (Mark Schuldenfrei)
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Subject: Re: State of Courtesy in the West
To: carolingia@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (carolingia)
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 15:35:10 -0400 (EDT)
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I thought some of you folks might want to see this (anonymized by me)
extract from a posting from the sca-west mailing list.

	Tibor

  I think that most of us in the SCA are a bit wary of newcomers. All the 
  groups I've ever been in have had long castigating meetings where we talk
  about newbies disappearing because people don't talk to them. 
  I myself have trouble walking up to new people and introducing myself.
  It's more comfortable staying with people we know. But only
  in the West (and Carolingia 15 years ago) have I ever been told, 
  "Sorry, you don't live in our zip area, we won't play with you." 
  Oops. Wrong number, son.  (I do wonder if this particular person would 
  have said the same thing if Aldric and I had been in full regalia, 
  instead of T-shirts and Jeans. Most people don't reject Knights, Laurels,
  and Pelicans quite that easily.  But I'm a cynic of long standing....)