Ellen....had you read Mr. Petty's ENTIRE post instead of looking for something to make a cutting comment about, you would have seen that his point was that some people in this Project term "offensive" anything that disagrees with their opinion. Vicki, by stating that the discussion in regard to someone making money off of the Project was "campaigning" was attempting to turn the point away from the fact that some are making, or planning to make, money off of the Project. And, was hoping to turn some "off" because it was pure politics. If you don't like the word "money", let's term it "something of value". For surely, if there isn't any actual cash accrued over and above expenses, then there is the feeding of dreams of creating a little empirical corporation that asks for contributions in order to supply the "free" information....including purchasing a server and hitting on foundations for funding. Once again, IF it is okay to organize a group like Friends of IAGenWeb to solicit funds to maintain/allow the posting of "free access" genealogical information, then there is nothing wrong with Wright County Historical and Genealogical Society soliciting funds to maintain/allow the posting of "free access" information to the Wright County site. And, that it also opens the door for ALL XXGenWeb Projects to do the same.......and filters down to the local coordinators. A FREE-FOR-ALL, do whatever you wish.....as long as you don't actually charge for the information itself, or have the USGenWeb Project logo on the "begging pages." Phyllis Rippee SW/SC CC Representative

At 09:13 AM 8/23/2003 -0500, you wrote: >Ellen....had you read Mr. Petty's ENTIRE post instead of looking for >something to make a cutting comment about, I did read the entire note. Read his previous notes, too. Also read Vicki's note, and Isaiah's, and everyone else. Understood them all quite nicely. And now I'm reading yours. Ellen