From: Teri Pettit <pettit@Adobe.COM> USGenWeb volunteers, Many people have been sending comments, complaints, questions, etc. to their individual Advisory Board representatives asking for some official action, opinion, etc., without sending a copy to the rest of the Board. This is fine, since it is a lot easier for you to know who your Rep is than to try to make a To list covering the entire board. But it is usually impossible for a rep to make any official response without first discussing the issue or request with the rest of the Advisory Board members. Since we try to follow standard email etiquette of not forwarding messages without the permission of the sender, this introduces a significant delay in making any response, where the Board member sends a message to the person who contacted them, asking for permission to forward their email to the rest of the Board, and waits for a reply. Since most people aren't online constantly, it could cut a day off the response time if anybody sending mail to an Advisory Board member asking for some official Board action would specify whether or not it is OK to forward their message to the rest of the Advisory Board. State Coordinators, since most of these messages come from County Coordinators, and USGENWEB-ALL is not really nearly "all", could you please forward this reminder to your state lists? Thanks, Teri Pettit CC-Rep, SE/Mid-Atlantic Region P.S. It is our policy to keep specific details of complaints on the private BOARD-EXEC-L, to protect the privacy and security of the project members involved, while discussing general issues, policy guidelines, and procedures on the archived list BOARD-L, searchable at http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl So if you want your message forwarded to BOARD-L, be aware that we may bleep out names, states, and other identifying details.