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    1. Re: [GAGEN] Followup
    2. kim gordon
    3. What if you have a CC who is stealing information from another site (not a GaGenWeb site) and making it look like their own? Kim >From: Tim Stowell <tstowell@chattanooga.net> >Reply-To: GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com >To: GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [GAGEN] Followup >Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:48:28 -0500 > >If you think that I should be removed from office - then vote your >conscience. I will never know, this side of the grave, who voted or how. >On the other side I won't care. > >If instead you believe these are the complaints of individuals, whose >situation was handled as best one could do under the circumstances - then >also vote your conscience. > >Of course you don't have to vote if you don't want to. > >For this to 'pass', 75% of you must participate and 2/3 of that 75% must >approve or 50% of the Georgia CCs in order to effect a removal. > >Of late there has been an attempt by several of these petitioners to harass >members of GAGenWeb regarding your sites. They review your pages and >nitpick them. They should refer this to the RC for said region or send a >kind note to the CC, instead of the condescending notes I've seen. > >If you get a note from one of these folks and you feel you are being >harassed, please feel free to write your RC or myself with your complaints >or tell them just how much you appreciate their harassment. > >The last I checked - GAGenWeb and assorted sites have over 60,000 links. >There is no way anyone can keep all their links current all the time. >Servers go down, pages disappear, hosts pass away. > >If you are aware of ANY files that have been swiped from your county pages >without your permission and copied to the Archives, please send that >information to me and/or your RC and it will be promptly dealt with. > >Perhaps if these folks would spend time on their own pages - their visitors >would be greatly rewarded, for currently some of these are only a >collection of links, which is out of the scope envisioned for the Project. > >After this vote is held - and the results announced - if I'm still your >choice, we'll start a review of the Guidelines. Until then everything >except departures and new CCs are on hold. > >FWIW, we currently have only 5 counties available for adoption: Evans, >Jefferson, Pulaski, Webster and Worth. > >Tim > > >==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== >For researching SURNAMES, check out GAGenWeb's new help page with links >to the most popular Surname sites: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~gagenweb/cchelp/surname/ > _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

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