I have been calling and emailing for a couple of weeks now with no return phone calls or any answers to my emails. I have however been hung up on, on a couple of occasions now when I called. Here is an email I sent yesterday to which no reply has come.   -------Original Message------- From: Mike & Diane Date: 3/3/2008 11:28:27 AM To: fussellh@earthlink.net Subject: Card Collection Horace, I wish you would have contacted me before sending these messages through the mailing lists. I have repeatedly requested that Fred send me a list of board names and contact information so that I could contact the board in reference to these cards and I never received a reply. I did not know you were a member of the board or of anyone else with the exception of Fred. We could have tried to work this out without getting the boards all in an uproar. Would you please explain to me why the cards cannot be posted on the site? We were not gong to post all 36,000 of the cards as you say. We were going to post the ones that people were interested in. This in turn would lead more people to the library and would have made people a lot more interested in its holdings. I do send messages through the list about the library, about it needing volunteers, holdings, etc. I also advise anyone looking for information to go to the library including sending the phone number of the library to many people as well as the lists so people can make appointments to go there to get information. I have had people for months tell me they get no return phone calls and I tell them to keep trying, and yes this was before we ever became interested in the card collection. I have never tried to get a volunteer inside the library to gain access to the materials there. I am not one to stoop as low as you have portrayed me to be. I would never put anything on the site that has a copyright without the original authors permission, or permission from one of their decedents. Compilations of facts are not subject to copyright, hence they can be posted without the original authors permission. I have however posted where the cards came from as well as information on Leslie Brown. I truly believe we could have worked something out to benefit everyone with this. Diane   http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncduplin/duplin.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgreene/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncjones/jones.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~nclenoir/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncnewhan/nh.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpasqu2/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpender/pender.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncperqu2/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncmil/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocivwar/mocwindex.html

Diane, I have no idea why, but the message you said you have sent to me have never come through. If you were using myold "ncfreedom" mail address you will note that I have new email, Earthlink. Ncfreedom went out of business the first of the year. Best regards, Fred ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike & Diane" <garebel@embarqmail.com> To: <ncduplin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 4:39 PM Subject: [NCDUPLIN] Fw: Card Collection >I have been calling and emailing for a couple of weeks now with no return > phone calls or any answers to my emails. I have however been hung up on, > on > a couple of occasions now when I called. Here is an email I sent yesterday > to which no reply has come. >   > -------Original Message------- > > From: Mike & Diane > Date: 3/3/2008 11:28:27 AM > To: fussellh@earthlink.net > Subject: Card Collection > > Horace, > > I wish you would have contacted me before sending these messages through > the > mailing lists. I have repeatedly requested that Fred send me a list of > board > names and contact information so that I could contact the board in > reference > to these cards and I never received a reply. I did not know you were a > member of the board or of anyone else with the exception of Fred. > > We could have tried to work this out without getting the boards all in an > uproar. > > Would you please explain to me why the cards cannot be posted on the site? > We were not gong to post all 36,000 of the cards as you say. We were going > to post the ones that people were interested in. This in turn would lead > more people to the library and would have made people a lot more > interested > in its holdings. > > I do send messages through the list about the library, about it needing > volunteers, holdings, etc. I also advise anyone looking for information to > go to the library including sending the phone number of the library to > many > people as well as the lists so people can make appointments to go there to > get information. I have had people for months tell me they get no return > phone calls and I tell them to keep trying, and yes this was before we > ever > became interested in the card collection. > > I have never tried to get a volunteer inside the library to gain access to > the materials there. I am not one to stoop as low as you have portrayed me > to be. I would never put anything on the site that has a copyright without > the original authors permission, or permission from one of their > decedents. > Compilations of facts are not subject to copyright, hence they can be > posted > without the original authors permission. I have however posted where the > cards came from as well as information on Leslie Brown. > > I truly believe we could have worked something out to benefit everyone > with > this. > > Diane > >   > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncduplin/duplin.htm > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgreene/ > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncjones/jones.htm > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nclenoir/ > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncnewhan/nh.htm > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpasqu2/ > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpender/pender.htm > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncperqu2/ > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncmil/ > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocivwar/mocwindex.html > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NCDUPLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message