-----Original Message----- From: Betty Sellers <kyseeker@Dynasty.Net> To: KYGEN-L@rootsweb.com <KYGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, June 10, 1999 3:06 PM Subject: Re: [KYGEN-L] Re: help please. etc. > >> >>If your complaint is that you don't have your pages on RootsWeb and you >>don't use GenConnect and you don't have a county mail list so your pages >>are not prominently linked on the RW pages, whose fault is that? RootsWeb >>offered everyone free space and free mail lists for their counties for over >>3 years. > > >Nancy I hardly ever disagree with you - I had the free space at RW for both >Trigg and Christian counties. I was also subbed to some mailing list -. >"Continually" it was brought out on these mailing list that we were >freeloaders. "Continually" I had to put up with such statements from BL - >that if you didn't support RW you were like a freeloader at a basket dinner >that didn't bring anything to contribute. > >I 'pulled' my counties from Rootweb and also 'pulled' Indiana - for that >reason. A few nicer letter written to me by RW supporters - said 'if we >didn't like it to get out'.... Everyone really got down on me last year when >I got mad and pulled my counties and transferred one of my biggest >GenConnect Boards to my sister in law. I still do have some for my queries. >However - I had sent a very hard earned contribution to RW as I wanted >Surname boards badly and just couldn't give any more. I'm sick of the word >FREE - there were attachments to that free - and one was guilt of being a >county coordinator with a mere income with a sick and dying husband. > >I for one understand what they are trying to pull - if we don't have >counties listed at RW they will give RW counties to other's and we will be >out... and as you say -- Whose fault is it? > >God only knows... God only knows... but please don't put that blame on me.. >I've got enough to handle. > > When GenConnect started a year and a half ago, it was offered to >>everyone to use for their queries and later for their data. If anyone has >>chosen not to use the RootsWeb space, list or GenConnect, they have no >>reason to complain about not being listed on the RW page. >> >>The bylaws and the board has nothing to do with any of this. Even if the >>bylaws were perfect they wouldn't say that the counties have to have their >>pages on this server or that server... folks wouldn't stand for it. >>Everyone wants their choice of where to put their pages, whether that is >>GeoCities like you have done or RootsWeb like many of us have, or their own >>server or domain like I tried last year. The bylaws and the board can't >>dictate that regardless of how strong or weak they are. >> >>nt >> >> >>==== KYGEN Mailing List ==== >>GenConnect Query System >>http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/index.html >> >> >> >> >> > > >==== KYGEN Mailing List ==== >GenConnect Query System >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/index.html > >