A few years ago, I became acquainted with Fred Armstrong the Director. He was very helpful in a problem we were having. I'm sure he would listen to us, and help if he can. His email is: fharmstrong@wvculture.org I'll be willing to write him, if you can help me with what to say in my email. Patti ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lesley L Shockey" <LesShockey@wildblue.net> To: <wvgen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 11:05 PM Subject: [WVGEN] updates and comments based on my questions > Hello group, > > First thank you all for the very kind words. I must admit there have > been a few times when I was ready to pack up my toys and go. This > was not due to any of the WVGenWeb CCs but rather a small group on > DISCUSS who has to pick apart my every post to the list. It use to > be the ALL list and the same group of people on that list until it > was closed for general Project use because of abuse of the list. I > made a post on DISCUSS last night that perhaps I should not > have. One of those who constantly attacks me and my ideas posted a > message addressing me as Leslie and had the subject as Leslie. I had > politely ask her before off list to not add the LIE to my name as I > personally find it offensive. Last night I told her again on the list. > > Now for some good news. We have had two offers of server space that > are willing to host the wvgenweb.org domain and provide sub > directories for any county site that wishes to move also. Nate > Zipfel has made the offer with no strings attached. Counties would > show as www.wvgenweb.org/~jackson/ for example. > > Dale Grimm, <dale@madisoncooh.info> said: You can consolidate as > many county sites as wish to participate under the domain > wvgenweb.org, which you already own. You will be able to set up > whatever subdomains you wish, so, for example, Lewis county would be > http://lewis.wvgenweb.org . That county coordinator would be able to > set up the e-mail account whatever@lewis.wvgenweb.org . If a county > coordinator does not wish to participate, you can still give them the > subdomain and point it to whatever server they are on. You would be > charged $X per year for each 50mb disk space and 1250mb monthly > transfer. If you had 10 counties participating using a total of > 175mb disk space, you would be charged $XX per year and have the > availability of 200mb space. > > I have not tried to contact the State of West Virginia or the or the > WV Department of Archives and History. Does anyone have good inside > connections to either one? Based on the offers that I have, does > anyone think that we need to investigate to see what the state is > willing to do? > > Les > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WVGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > >

Thanks Patti. I am trying to figure out how to word it. Maybe someone has some good suggestions. It likely needs to be someone who is a better salesman than what I am. I use salesman for lack of thinking of a better word this morning. Les At 06:10 AM 9/28/2007, you wrote: >A few years ago, I became acquainted with Fred Armstrong the Director. >He was very helpful in a problem we were having. >I'm sure he would listen to us, and help if he can. >His email is: >fharmstrong@wvculture.org > >I'll be willing to write him, if you can help me with what to say in my >email. >Patti