Open letter to Glen: Glen, the committee that was appointed by the SC (I am not an English language addict, but in the USGenWeb Project - the group you are in [not GenWeb, that is another group!] - SC = State Coordinator) was the results of a survey taken of the INGenWeb County Coordinators (we call them CCs for short - shop talk don't you know). I bet that sentence has more grammatical errors than Carter has liver pills! <LOL> ["<LOL>" is Internet shorthand.] The USGenWeb Project By-Laws permit each state the authority to make standards for their state level organization. And we should do so. Gosh, Glen, you sure know how to make people glad to hear from you. I know you must think that most of us are "idiots," but I am just a country hick from Southern Indiana. Guess what? I have a real "BIG BROTHER" and his name is Glen, too! Glen - you would like him - he likes to call everyone an "idiot," too! My big brother, Glen, had a stroke last year. I suggested that he lighten-up [that's slang for "relax"]. I said, "Glen, stop calling people an "idiot" just because they do not think like a "big jerk" like you!" My big brother laughed and said, "Thanks for your advice - you idiot!" <smiling> Gee, Glen, I hope we can get along better in the future! John G. West, Snake Oil Sales Rep for Sothern Indiana And Vanderburgh Co. CC At 12:04 AM 5/4/99 -0500, Glen Edward McGlothlin wrote: >To the self appointed high council of Indiana GenWeb, > >Why is Indiana setting laws on this. Is this not more properly a function >of the U.S. level of GenWeb? Shouldn't they, and not you, be setting up >standards? > >As for the recent flap, I believe all of the VOLUNTEERS (capitalization >intended) understand that their sites are there to facilitate genealogical >research, so a bi-law mandating this is either a redundancy or a >patronization. If it is being done to prevent someone from also selling >snake oil from their site, I believe we also understand this without an >extra law. > >Secondly, I raised the issue of using non-standard terms like CC SC NC etc. >If they are abbreviations, standard or not, the laws governing the use of >English state that they must be written as C.C., S.C., and N.C., etc. And >then you need to have them defined somewhere publicly so that we know what >the hell you meant in the first place. Otherwise, they will be mistaken for >things such as South and North Carolina. I missed one GenWeb election last >year because some idiot said the vote was for SC and NC, which only the U.S. >Post Office uses as 2 letter codes (note that they are not abbreviations) >for the states. I ignored the vote because I'm in Indiana and have nothing >to do with North or South Carolina. > >Thirdly, since we are Americans, regardless of any superficial vote, most of >us will ignore BIG BROTHER, and do it our way, and in the best way we can. > >Glen McGlothlin >La Porte GenWeb > > >