At 5:10 AM -0700 4/13/00, Garnett J.(Joe) Zsedeny wrote: >Although I can think of cases where a NC could delink on >his/her own initiative I don't believe this case qualifies. The only case I can think of would be if somebody hacked the site so that the URL suddenly went to a pornography page or something else that is very obviously not a USGenWeb page. That would be because it wouldn't really be "delinking" a USGenWeb page, it would be delinking a different page that had been hacked into a usgenweb url. Even if a site were so flagrantly in violation of the ByLaws that the National Coordinator was absolutely 100% sure that the Board would unanimously agree on delinking the page (for example if the page were charging a fee for data access), the ByLaws *still* say that the decision would be up to the Advisory Board, not the NC or the webmaster. I don't agree with all of the ByLaws by any means, but do I agree with this one. It is there to make sure that any delinking happens for reasons that are clear-cut and important enough to convince 2/3 of the Advisory Board. >The ByLaws are quite clear on delinking, the Board makes >that decision. If the Board members feel that the CP should >be delinked it should be done in a separate motion. Right. Motion 00-8 is not a vote on whether the Census Project did something deserving of delinking. I would be very interested in hearing from those who voted No on Motion 00-8 as to what their reasoning for their vote was. Nothing about what the Census Project did or did not do is the slightest bit relevant to this question. It is only about how you came to the conclusion that the ByLaws permit the National Coordinator to delink a project site on his or her own initiative. So, in order to more clearly make the distinction between the question of "was the CP in violation?" (which was not being voted on) and the question of "how far does the NC's authority extend?" (which was being voted on), I will phrase my question thusly: If the Archives Page were to start charging a $10 fee for access to the Archives index - which would of course be a very clear and very severe violation of the Rules/Guidelines for USGenWeb pages - do you think the ByLaws give the National Coordinator the authority to delink the Archives page without bringing the question officially before the Advisory Board? If so, why? (Hopefully needless to say, I am not suggesting that anyone associated with the Archives would even think of doing anything like that.) -- Teri