From: CS341A035@husky1.stmarys.ca ("Brynjolfr Myrkjartanarson, founder of the Compaignie Mercurie")
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: The location of Ruantallan; speaking mundanely; and technical trivia
Date: 7 Apr 92 00:43:00 GMT
Organization: The Internet

Alison MacDermot writes:
>Doing 
>a 180 degree turn, the Barony of Ruantallan, mundanely Halifax, NS, is five
>hours drive to Portland, ME, a 10 hour ferry ride to Yarmouth, NS, and 
>3 hours drive to Halifax. (Can you tell I honeymooned in Nova Scotia?)

One point - Halifax is the Canton of Seashire; the Barony of Ruantallan
includes all of Nova Scotia as well as PEI... (if any groups start up there)

>Alison MacDermot
>(the Sedentary Scadian)

Lord Godfrey writes:
>In article <702119406.F00001@blkcat.UUCP>, Robert.Fitzmorgan@f213.n170.z1.fidonet.org (Robert Fitzmorgan) writes:
>> 
>> AP>Tis far worse, for me, when writing than speaking.
>> AP>But I have been known to inadvertantly address a patient or two
>> AP>(I'm a psychotherapist in the 20th century) as M'Lady when I was
>> AP>distracted.
>> 
>>        I don't usually find myself addressing mundanes as M'Lord/Lady
>>  but I do  catch myself bowing at inapproiate times.
>
>I, too, have done this, usually the day after I've returned from an event.
>
>Far worse, though, was when I was introduced to a new female co-worker 
>after one Pennsic, and kissed her hand when she extended it for a handshake.

I found myself after the last event unwilling to speak to anyone for about a
day, because I was completely aware that I would* address them as m'lady or
m'lord, and I didn't want to have to explain... and I didn't want to have to
not* call them that...

Stephen Whitis writes:
>PB>Three times I have sent email so I could stop getting the digest...
>
>What is the digest?

The digest is the original form of this forum. It's a large mailing list that
operates through the Internet, gatewaying messages both ways with
rec.org.sca... It is typically used either by people without news reader access
or by people like myself who tend to go away for a few days at a time, and
don't want to miss Rialto news because their newsfeed only keeps the last 100
or so messages...

>Stephen Whitis/Stephen of the Grove
>Steppes/Ansteorra  FIDO 1:124/4229
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Tadh Liath writes:
>Fra Tadh Liath unto Arval Benicoeur and all others unto whom these presents
>shall have come giveth greeting.
>
>In a recent response to Gwenllian ferch Morfudd, you wrote:
>
> JM> Your message arrived slightly mangled; I think it's because you aren't
> JM> breaking your lines.  Many programs can't deal with lines of text more
> JM> than 75 or 80 characters long.
>
>Almost certainly the fault of whatever software translates between FidoNet and
>Usenet - FidoNet BBS editors work within the 80 character limit of most PC
>screens.

No. It's Fido's good old-fashioned BBS editing... (Warning: semi-long technical
posting about to start; for those who don't like this kind of programmingesque
stuff, skip to the next message now... it is the end of my post)

A standard way of storing a message in a BBS is to just keep a whole bunch of
text, and insert a carriage return every time the user ends a paragraph. This
has a whole bunch of benefits:

   A) It uses slightly less storage space - VERY IMPORTANT to most BBSes, even
      those running off of hard drives; generally irrelevant to large systems

   B) It can be adapted to different screen-widths very easily - quite
      important to most BBSes, as there are still plenty of C=64 users out
      there; generally irrelevant to large systems, which all use 80 column
      pretty much for all textfiles (132 sometimes too, but it's usually on
      stuff that's meant strictly for printout, not actual reading)

   C) It's simple to code.

The main disadvantage of this approach is:

   D) It slows the system's output down slightly. This means the text-output
      routine has to keep track of where the current horizontal cursor is. This
      is generally irrelevant when you're in a BBS, where users are 1200 or
      2400 baud, with the occasional 9600 baud caller; but in a mini setup,
      where *normally* terminals are 9600 baud and we have Ethernet connected
      terminals that can run at 7 or 8 times that speed (I've clocked them
      myself, using VMS' monitor functions and an assembly language program
      that ran as fast as possible --- on a scale that normally went from 1 to
      20, the buffered i/o rate on a 9600 baud terminal was about 60 or so and
      the Ethernet terminal averaged around 400 but managed as much as approx.
      570 on one pass) it makes a difference. Mini and workstation users are
      speed demons. (For that matter, so are people who use micros in local;
      their textfiles are setup just the way ours are; it's only in BBSes does
      the speed get sacrificed)

The trouble of course is that when you send through a stream of characters, my
end of course doesn't recognize an end of a line until it sees that magic
<CR><LF> which to *your* system indicates the end of a paragraph.

So, with short paragraphs (of one line), there's no problem.

So, the easiest way to deal with the problem is for you to end your paragraphs
at the end of each line.

> * Origin: Herald's Point * Steppes/Ansteorra * 214-699-0057 (1:124/4229)

-Brynjolfr Myrkjartanarson, Compaignie Mercurie, Seashire, Ruantallan, East

      The unwise man thinks he will live for ever if he shuns fight, but
      Old age gives him no peace though spears may shun him. - The Havamal

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