Hello everyone, I have been overlooking many e-mails I have received in regards to this contest. For example, I have received 4 e-mails from Indiana Biographies County Coordinators stating that certain County's should have been nominated. I received these AFTER the nominations were through, and we all know that it was like pulling teeth to get the five nominations we did. I received many more e-mails complaining that we shouldn't have a contest, that we shouldn't have a competition, that we shouldn't have it so closed to people (non-CC's), etc...etc.... I have also received many e-mails supporting the contest and saying that it was a good idea to keep the CC's as a group, a team. This was the whole point of the contest. It seems there are many who will argue, complain, and cause problems where it should have been all for fun. The e-mail received tonight was the last straw. After much consideration, we have decided to stop the contest altogether. Christe Bowerman, who was handling the Site of the month contest, received an e-mail at 12:49 pm. HER TIME saying that he is entitled to his vote because in his time zone it was only 11:49. This would have been fine, if it had not been over an hour after she sent messages stating that time was almost up. It also would have been fine if the voting had only been for a day, but this has been going on for a week! We are not going to allow arguing and complaining over an hours difference here. This person had not nominated anyone, and decided at 11:45pm THEIR time that they wanted to be a part of this....this was also sent AFTER it was announced that there was a tie. This, to me, is totally unfair to everyone involved. The contest is closed....there will be no more contests until I, and my two assistants, feel that there will be much more cooperation from the CC's. I started this contest so that we could all get to know each other, encourage each coordinator to view each others sites, get some pointers from each other, learn from each other, and work as a team to make this project the best. In anything new there are kinks to work out, we understood this from the beginning, but we did not expect the complaining when it should have been for fun. We feel it would not be fair to award any winner for this month....to maintain peace and harmony in this team the contest is temporarily closed. If you feel you have something to say about this, please e-mail me privately and we can discuss it. I would like to say thank you to all the CC's who participated, and to those who didn't complain. Thank you very much, Dee Floyd Pavey Indiana Biographies State Coordinator http://www.aye.net/~dee1234/indybios.inbio2.html ==== INDIANA_BIO Mailing List ==== Please remember this is a mailing list for the discussion of Indiana Biographies ONLY. No Queries please! To contact the listowner e-mail dee1234@aye.net To unsubscribe send the command "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) to INDIANA_BIO-L-request@rootsweb.com in the body of the message.