Hello Ed, Hello Listers, Thanks Ed for setting us straight in plain words about somewhat the cause of the problem here. I think if the truth had been out in the first place and Mr Smoot/Smith and whatever else name he is or will conjure to use, would be history bounced by now like the Pirates on the sea. NO we will not stand for such as this person on any sites that and so good and great as Dave's nor for them to take from us what isn't theirs to pirate. We all LOVE you Dave and give you the support you deserve. and will give you the Goldest Ribbon made for your contribution to Internet Genealogy on a great site like TNGILES-L@rootsweb.com. . So now don't anyone try to pirate or else they will have all of us like a swarm of KILLER BEES after him.. her whatever they may claim to be????? Keep up the Great job and we all Love you Dave. and the great work you do and all the time you have donated free. Lets now see how many BLACK BALLS can go out to Mr Smoot/Smith whatever.?? I lost track of the support messages for Dave but they are still coming and for Good Reason. Get them Black Balls rolling and knock all the bad pins down. Thanks again Ed. Setting us up with the truth. Maxine mmwaw@sprynet.com -----Original Message----- From: Edward J. Smith <edwardj@bravenet.net> To: TNGILES-L@rootsweb.com <TNGILES-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, June 16, 2000 6:30 AM Subject: [TNGILES-L] I Support Dave As a person who is very familiar with the UsGenWeb, I will say: In my experiences with Mr Smoot, UsGenNet and the like, Dave is correct. Mr Smoot is not to be trusted. Our project is called UsGenWeb...Mr Smoot incorporates under UsGenNet. Similar names aren't they? The Tennessee project is called TnGenWeb....Mr Smoot incorporated TnGenNet. Similar again isn't it? Mr Smoot ran and lost the election for National Coordinator of the UsGenWeb Project. He protested the election and has since been trying to take over, not only Dave's page, but the whole project. Dave has put in tons of work here and has given us all a great place to do Giles research. I for one would think long and hard before supporting or contributing to any organization with Mr. Smoot at the wheel. Thanks for listening to me, keep up the good work Dave, Ed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cool Free Web Tools For Webmasters - http://www.bravenet.com ==== TNGILES Mailing List ==== Thanks to Rootsweb for making This Mailing List Possible. To find out how to support Rootsweb http://www.rootsweb.com