Hiya, I’m back, aren't you just so pleased? Below is the original message of the "unlinking" of Johnson County. It is a situation that needs to be addressed. It would seem that we have "Mexican Standoff" here and if we do not address the issue, we might find ourselves in the extremely unpopular position of having the national board interfering again with TNGenWeb business. We have no "due process," no working rules and regulations, no guide lines, simply no formalized way of resolving this issue, therefore I call for an ad hoc arbitrator to resolve the situation. I am sure that many regular Johnson County Page visitors have the site bookmarked, but some new visitors attempting to access that page certainly will be disserved. Please consider this; the larger picture here is that we do not have a reasonable set of rules to cover situations like this. We have not given the SC and ASC the tools to handle situations and we has not established standards that the CCs could use as guidelines. The future Bylaws would be a fine place to have these standards and the current situation is a prime example why we need establish well thought out Bylaws. Let’s not turn a small situation into a Johnson County war. Fred Smoot >>>> Nancy Cole wrote: > > Dear Mary and Pam. > > Johnson County has been temporarily unlinked from TNGenWeb. Your > queries, which are the property of the poster have been rerouted to USIT > since I just discovered that you moved them without notifying me, thus > making them inaccessable to TNGenWeb visitors. They will be maintained. > > This message is being cc'd to Megan and the TN-Chat list since it will, no > doubt engender discussion and that list is the proper place for such > discussion. > > The reasons for this temporary action are: > > 1. Refusal to identify Johnson County as part of the TNGenWeb project as > is required and this despite numerous requests that you do so. > > 2. The forwarding of project mail to parties not participating in > TNGenWeb. > > 3, Lack of team spirit, as evidenced by posting to the national list on > matters which affect only participants in the TNGenWeb project, with > the purpose of sowing dissention within the project as a whole. > > 4. Purposeful denigration of USGenWeb, TNGenWeb, and its volunteers in a > manner that goes beyond your right of free speech and becomes > destructive to both organizations. > > Johnson County is a wonderful site and we would hate to lose it, but > until you can bring yourselves to behave as members of this team, your > pages will remain unlinked. If you have a change of heart and decide to > become responsible, accountable members of TNGenWeb, we will be happy to > re-link your pages. > > Nancy L. Cole > ncole@coffey.com > > Assistant TNGenweb Coordinator -- <-> <-> <-> <-> <-> <-> <-> <-> <-> <-> <-> <-> <-> <-> <-> <-> <-> <-> Fred Smoot, Patty Sokolecki Smoot; Dog Trot X Press Art, Graphics, Maps, Panoramic Photography. ~^~^~^~^~^~^~ Fred's Projects ~^~^~^~^~^~^~ TNGenWeb; Special Projects Coordinator. Middle Tennessee Genealogical Society, WebMaster: http://www.dogtrot.com/mtgs/ TNGenWeb; Letters from Forgotten Ancestors: http://www.tngenweb.org/tnletters/ TNGenWeb; First People of Tennessee: Cherokee & Chickasaw Nations http://www.tngenweb.org/tnfirst/ TNGenWeb; People of Color in Old Tennessee http://www.tngenweb.org/tncolor/ TNGenWeb; The Maps Our Ancestors Followed: http://www.tngenweb.org/maps/ TNGenWeb; The Land of Our Ancestors: http://www.tngenweb.org/tnland/ Warren County Genealogical Association, WebMaster http://www.dogtrot.com/wcga/ TNGenWeb; Warren County Tennessee Homepage: http://www.tngenweb.org/warren/