Dear WRG and others interested: I have been asked several times about the reason I sent the e-mail I did to the lists. I quote below a message I got from a person on the yahoo.com domain. It was sent through "[email protected]" I will not pass along the exact e-mail address because I think that violates Internet protocol (although the insult was seemingly directed to a maillist rather than to me as an individual). ****************************************************************************** *********** >Oh, No! I finally found a site about the Whitney family & it seems to >have been perverted by a pervert- ahhh!  :( >Well, anyways, I'm here now & if anyone else is still interested in >doing some actual research... I'll be back! >My husband is the Whitney & I would love to discover, for him, that we >are related to Eli Whitney! I will wait to share my family line until I >know y'all better! > >A fellow Whitney ****************************************************************************** *** To those who wrote to me, clearly this didn't come from you unless you are running multiple e-mail addresses. I don't want to prolong this any further. If more comes along from this person, I'll ignore it or reply only to that person. Happy Hunting to all Whitney Researchers! Allan E. Green

I think it is a safe guess that here is a Whitney that didn't marry the sharpest tool in the shed. The nice thing about people like her is it makes the rest of us feel so much better about ourselves. Speaking of folks who you would also think of as not overly bright a couple of months back I was at a fund raiser and was there as the Asst Chief of my fire dept., so dress uniform which includes a name plate. One of the people performing was Larry the Cable Guy. At the end was a reception/BS session and Larry came looking for me because he had seen my name. Turns out Larry's real name is Dan Whitney. So there's now a picture of the two of us up in the fire station labeled "The Whitney Boys". But I would like to point out that Dan is MUCH smarter than Larry. In keeping with that story I guess I'll sign off with, Git'r Done Michael Whitney ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 3:07 PM Subject: [WHITNEY-L] The insulting e-mail about Whitney website Dear WRG and others interested: I have been asked several times about the reason I sent the e-mail I did to the lists. I quote below a message I got from a person on the yahoo.com domain. It was sent through "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" I will not pass along the exact e-mail address because I think that violates Internet protocol (although the insult was seemingly directed to a maillist rather than to me as an individual). ****************************************************************************** *********** >Oh, No! I finally found a site about the Whitney family & it seems to >have been perverted by a pervert- ahhh! :( >Well, anyways, I'm here now & if anyone else is still interested in >doing some actual research... I'll be back! >My husband is the Whitney & I would love to discover, for him, that we >are related to Eli Whitney! I will wait to share my family line until I >know y'all better! > >A fellow Whitney ****************************************************************************** *** To those who wrote to me, clearly this didn't come from you unless you are running multiple e-mail addresses. I don't want to prolong this any further. If more comes along from this person, I'll ignore it or reply only to that person. Happy Hunting to all Whitney Researchers! Allan E. Green