Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 05:45:06 -0600 To: "Jim Powell, Jr., USGenWeb Southeast/Mid-Atlantic Region CC Representative" <jpowelljr@gru.net>, "Teri Pettit, USGenWeb Southeast/Mid-Atlantic Region CC Representative" <pettit@adobe.com> From: C Hammett <CarHammett@mindspring.com> Subject: Commercial Abuse Grievance #1 Cc: TNGenWeb CC List <TN-All@egroups.com>, USGW-CC-L@USGenNet.Org In accordance with the USGenWeb Project Bylaws, Article XIV, GRIEVANCE PROCEDURES AND APPEALS PROCESS, this email is to request that the USGenWeb Project Advisory Board arrange for an impartial party to mediate the following grievance against USGenWeb Project National Coordinator Tim Stowell and National Webmaster Pam Reid; to wit: 1. The United States Genealogy Network, Inc. (http://USGenNet.Org), an IRS-approved nonprofit public benefit corporation, provides free web space and tools to all USGenWeb Project Coordinators. 2. The USGenWeb Project is an unincorporated not-for-profit association (USGenWeb Bylaws, Article III) 3. Timothy Stowell, USGenWeb Project National Coordinator, was requested on Dec 22, 1999, to add USGenNet as a resource on the following sites: http://usgenweb.org/volunteers/free.html http://usgenweb.org/volunteers/volunteers.html http://usgenweb.org/volunteers/querymgmt.html 4. Mr. Stowell has never responded, nor has USGenNet ever been added. Instead, the featured resource on each of the above pages is the commercial corporation, Rootsweb.com, Inc. The favoritism displayed by Mr. Stowell and Ms. Reid toward a commercial entity over a nonprofit entity jeopardizes the nonprofit status of the USGenWeb Project, damages the Project's public image and reduces the ability of all USGenWeb Project Coordinators, at every level, to recruit volunteers. Should either (a) all other web-hosting resources be removed from these sites; or (b) USGenNet be added; and the commercial status of each resource be included, this grievance may be considered inactive for as long as these conditions are met. Carole Hammett Warren Co, TNGenWeb CC http://www.tngenweb.org/warren/ X-Sender: carhammett@pop.mindspring.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 15:04:32 -0700 To: USGW-CC-L@usgennet.org From: C Hammett <carhammett@mindspring.com> Subject: USGW-CC-L: Fwd: USGenNet Resources Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-usgw-cc-l@rootsquest.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: USGW-CC-L@usgennet.org Dear Fellow CC's. Teresa Lindquist's DBS (Daily Board Show) made mention today of the fact that USGGWP Advisory Board Member Pam Reid, in a posting to Board-L, included as an "issue" under the subject, "Year 2000 Clean Ups," the matter of "USGenNet and the sites that are hosted as USGenWeb sites and USGenNet sites." So far as I know, the only outstanding "issue" in respect to the USGWP and USGenNet is the following email to which no reply has been received as yet. Please note that USGenNet is a nonprofit service organization that provides free Internet services to not-for-profit organizations, including the USGenWeb Project. Please feel free to forward this email to all possible interested parties. Sincerely, Carole Hammett Recording Secretary, United States Genealogy Network, Inc. http://USGenNet.Org/ Co-County Coordinator, Warren Co, TNGenWeb Co-CC http://www.tngennet.org/warren/ Coordinator, Combs-Coombs &c. Research Group, Inc. http://www.combs-families.org/~combs/ X-POP3-Rcpt: usgnrsec@seeker X-Sender: usgnrsec@mail.usgennet.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 14:02:31 -0700 To: "Tim Stowell, USGWP NC" <tstowell@chattanooga.net> From: "Carole Hammett, USGenNet Recording Secretary" <usgnrsec@usgennet.org> Subject: USGenNet Resources Cc: "Carole Hammett, USGenNet Recording Secretary" <usgnrsec@usgennet.org> Dear Mr. Stowell: This email is to request that the USGenWeb Project add the United States Genealogy Network, Inc. (USGenNet(tm)) to your volunteer pages listing resources for USGenWeb Project Coordinators. USGenNet is a nonprofit public benefit corporation that offers free Safe-Site Services(tm) to numerous not-for-profit historical and genealogical organizations, including the USGenWeb Project, and is located at http://USGenNet.Org/. The applicable USGenWeb Project volunteer pages are: http://usgenweb.org/volunteers/free.html (web space and search engines) http://usgenweb.org/volunteers/volunteers.html (mailing lists and search engines) http://usgenweb.org/volunteers/querymgmt.html (message boards and guest books). Thanking you in advance for your kind attention to this matter, I am yours Sincerely, Carole Hammett, Recording Secretary United States Genealogy Network, Inc. http://USGenNet.Org "USGenNet - the Biggest Little Safe-Site Server on the Internet!"