At 08:05 AM 6/4/00 -0400, Ron & Kathy wrote: >Esteemed Members of the Board, > >I just wanted to make a simple observation. Ron: It would have been so simple if you had: 1. Bargained in good faith when your group first contacted the Archives last fall regarding a merger. Instead, you allowed events to proceed for more than 6 weeks without so much as a word from you. Silence implies consent in most negotiations. If you had said "Wait a minute -- I don't like ________ (fill in the blank with something that was disagreeable to you), I am willing to give up ____________ (fill in this blank with something you know the other side wants) if you will grant me _____________ ." Instead we got a flat and final "NO" just as we were about to exchange passwords. 2. Immediately following the de-link, restored Holly Timm's copyrights to all pages she wrote and those with her formatting, and changed to an e-mail address on your web site where all your top echelon people had access. to insure that e-mail to the was handled expeditiously -- and then appled to be re-linked. Instead you embarked on a lengthy spam attack on the Board. 3. Never incorporated as USGenWeb ____________. This name belongs to all of us; CCs, SCs, and SP's. It cannot be incorporated without the permission of all of us. Instead, you incorporated TWICE using the word, USGenWeb. <big snip>