Date: Thu, 28 Apr 94 21:53:00 EDT
From: huff@bronze.lcs.mit.edu (Robert Huff)
Message-Id: <9404290153.AA03875@bronze.lcs.mit.edu>
To: carolingia@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Mark Schuldenfrei's message of Thu, 28 Apr 1994 16:29:02 -0400 (EDT) <9404282029.AA02566@math.harvard.edu>
Subject: State of Courtesy in the West


Hello:
	As someone who joined pretty close to 15 years ago, I feel
compelled to comment on:

>  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....)

	To my rememberance, that attitude was not uncommom.  While there
were many who encouraged new folk, the attitude of others ranged from the
... cautious ... to what you read above.
	While I'd be a fool to claim causality, attitude to novices and
"no-name" arrivals seems to have improved proportional to the ratio of
long-term home-grown Carolingians ....


			Diego Mundoz