And as the cowboy rides away the men wave their hats and the ladies sniff their hankies. Sam we love ya! Don't think your getting away with this - cause we all plan on callin on ya for a lot of help! -----Original Message----- From: Sam Cline <scline@hoosierweb.org> To: INGEN-L@rootsweb.com <INGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, October 11, 1998 4:13 PM Subject: What Webs We Mortals Sometimes Weave >One last word to my kind of people. > >I have now found new homes for all of the INGenWeb pages I have been >responsible for. I must therefore, reluctantly, say goodbye as a >County Coordinator for INGenWeb. > >Do not allow yourselves to become upset and frustrated by some of the >messages that you see coming through to you that are forwarded from >USGENWEB-ALL. [Like the ones from Mr. Spider (I'm not sure that is >the correct name.) that came through earlier today. Some folks are >simply going to whine and gripe their way through life no matter what >the rest of us do. Life is too short for that kind of stuff. Paint >your delete key red and use it often. [And don't worry about Betty >forwarding a big bunch of similar messages to you; it ain't gonna >happen.] > >The National Coordinator, National Advisory Board, State Coordinators, >County Coordinators, Special Project Coordinators, and all those other >people who are involved in the USGENWEB project on a daily basis >providing high quality FREE data for the entire world are doing so as >a labor of love. Be that as it may, in any organization 1%, sometimes >more, of the persons involved are right all the time, even if they are >totally wrong most of the time. They are basically trying to feather >their own nest, let everyone know they know it all (fortunately we >have never had that type of person involved, to my knowledge, with the >INGenWeb project), and let the rest of us know we are dumber than a >box of rocks. I'll take all the boxes of rocks I can get any day >rather than someone who is always right and whining and gripping >continually letting us know why they are right and why they are always >going to be right, in their minds at least. > >So keep smiling; be happy; and keep up the good work! A little >Hoosier Hospitality never hurt anyone. You folks who live outside >Indiana and are working with the INGenweb project have got to have >some of that "Hoosier Hospitality" in your blood, just because of your >involvement with INGenWeb. > >Goodbye. [He says as he rides off into the sunset with his herd of >pack mules loaded with 37 years of history and genealogy research in >Indiana. Anyone with that much stuff should at least offer an >occasional helping hand. You got it--just let me know. I don't >however work as fast as I used to.] > >Sam Cline > >Morgan County Council ~ >http://www.scican.net/government/mc-gov/councilm.html >Morgan County Indiana Historian - IHB/IHS ~ >http://www2.ihs1830.org/ihs1830/cohist.htm >Indiana Genealogical Society ~ http://www.indgensoc.org/ >HoosierWeb ~ http://www.hoosierweb.org >The candle light will always be gleaming through the sycamores. >The latch string is always out. > > >