You brought a nice smile to my face, I loved it..... I am a Yankee too!! Love the southern drawl........ g ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Buckley To: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 9:39 PM Subject: Re: [STATE-COORD] Vote Greetings y'all, Have been inundated with about a thousun attempts per day to infect me with one of them virus thangs and with my advanced age have not egzactly follered y'all in this discuss'n. So bear with me. If'n I got this strate, har is whut's goin' on: One of them Georgia boys started this mess by not acting like the surthern gentlman his mama brot him up to be. Maybe jus cuz that Isaiah feller is a yankee...dunno. Ain't no excuse. Sumin bout the Isaih feller wantin som money to pay for hiz server that sum folks don't like but didn't brake no laws. Then, a lady tried to calm folks down and wuzn't treated like no lady for her efforts. The Georgia boy commenced to talk about everything under the sun regardin his affliction, the govment, and how everybody was wrong. One of them other yankees decided to have a kangaroo court and call for a vote (Rebels love it when yankees fit mongst theirselves) Now to get serious (If that is possible with me), I took a quick look at all of our state pages and found that only twelve do not have RootsWeb Addy's. Two are RootsWeb Redirects. Of the remaining ten state pages it is not exactly clear if they truly acknowledge that they are a "chapter" of the USGenWeb Project. Maybe two or three are incorporated as "xxGenWeb". Kansas is the "KSGenWeb Internet Genealogy Society". Don't think its any of my business, but for the states not hosted by RootsWeb, who is paying for their servers? So, should we beat up on Iowa for having a sponsor other than RootsWeb(Who always solicited contributions before they were bought by a "commercial interest")? My personal opinion is that the Iowa solicitation should be a bit more subtle. But since it doesn't break the USGenWeb bylaws and there are several other questionable state page hosting arrangemets, is there sufficient need for us to conduct a non-binding censure vote? Why can't we just state our opinions civily and responsibly? My hope is that Iowa, and any other States, will take a hard look at what we present to the public so that we keep our focus on providing free help to folks looking for their family history. Regards, Paul Buckley, North Carolina ASC --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.512 / Virus Database: 309 - Release Date: 08/19/2003