--part1_da21950b.250924c4_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The following is forwarded for your action. Ginger Cisewski NW-Plains CC Rep. --part1_da21950b.250924c4_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <shadow13@kmtel.net> Received: from rly-yh01.mx.aol.com (rly-yh01.mail.aol.com [172.18.147.33]) by air-yh02.mail.aol.com (v60.28) with ESMTP; Thu, 09 Sep 1999 02:30:09 -0400 Received: from inet.htcnet.com (inet.htcnet.com [199.120.83.1]) by rly-yh01.mx.aol.com (v60.28) with ESMTP; Thu, 09 Sep 1999 02:30:04 2000 Received: from default (p23.kmtel.net [209.152.80.240]) by inet.htcnet.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id BAA16262; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 01:29:56 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <015201befa8c$8d662680$3ddfdece@default> From: "Lynn" <shadow13@kmtel.net> To: "StateCoord" <STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com>, "Maggie" <73777.25@compuserve.com>, "Ginger" <FEATHER2s@aol.com> Subject: Formal Complaint Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 01:28:36 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 I am, hereby, making a formal complaint to the board: Colorado's State pages were moved off of Rootsweb about a month ago. As the SC for COGenWeb, I have the right, under our Bylaws, to move the State pages to any server I choose. When I moved the State pages off Rootsweb, I did not move the project pages that my ASC had on the COGenWeb site, as that was HER project, and I felt it wasn't right for me to move them without her permission. She was out of town at that time, I was waiting for her return, and it was her choice to make. She contacted Brian Leverich, owner of Rootsweb, and requested the COGenWeb site that was already there, with her project on it, for her project, which IS a part of the COGenWeb Project, and was rejected by Brian. He gave her another account and she had to move her entire project to the new account. However, as soon as she had moved her project to the new account, he allowed a person who is NOT part of COGenWeb to take over that account with "cogenweb" as part of the account name, which is in violation of our Bylaws: "The USGenWeb Project," and "The XXGenWeb Project" (where XX is the two-letter postal code abbreviation for each state) are service marks and reserved exclusively for The USGenWeb Project and any websites representing The USGenWeb Project." [Article I] Rootsweb has violated this Bylaw, by allowing a person who is NOT part of COGenWeb to adopt this site, and use it for purposes of misdirecting researchers, and as part of her personal vendetta. According to the bylaws, the board must direct Brian to take back this account as this person is not a member of the COGenWeb and any use of these pages by anyone else but the State Coordinator is in violation of the bylaws. Lynn --part1_da21950b.250924c4_boundary--