Feb 8-14 1999

From merope@Radix.Net Mon Feb 8 16:51:16 1999

Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 16:51:15 -0500 (EST)

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Saturday 6 February 1999

There is no Board -L traffic on this date.

Tomorrow's News Today: A vote is called on the motion to adjourn; it

looks like most Board members who have responded have voted 'nay'

In Other News: The DBS has learned that former Board member and co-State

Coordinator of Arizona is in the hospital and is very ill. Our hopes go

out for a speedy and full recovery.

Announcement Corner: The DBS, in conjunction with RadioFree USGENWEB, is

pleased to announce a new feature on the RF USGW page: The R-files, Tales

of Rootsweb. Read All About It at http://www.radix.net/~merope

"As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and

if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever."

---Clarence Darrow

This has been your Daily Board Show.

-Teresa Lindquist

merope@radix.net

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From merope@Radix.Net Tue Feb 9 16:06:28 1999

Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 16:06:26 -0500 (EST)

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All things to all people...its Your Daily Board Show!

*warning* this is not a drill, contains editorial content. Read at your

own risk!

Sunday 7 February 1999:

The NC calls for a vote on the motion to adjourn and 5 Board members vote

"nay" [sounds like a herd of horses in there <g>]

A Board member posts an update on Don Spidell's condition [this reporter

has seen a more current report, and apparently Mr. Spidell is doing

better]

Get With The Program Corner: Can someone remind the webmaster to update

the "Who's Who" page? We do after all have a whole slew of new Board

member.

Notice: ListBot is going to be upgrading its servers tomorrow, so there

may be no DBS. We'll make up for it on thursday.

"Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom.

It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."

-- William Pitt

This has been your Daily Board Show.

-Teresa Lindquist

merope@radix.net

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From merope@Radix.Net Wed Feb 10 21:08:46 1999

Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 21:08:45 -0500 (EST)

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Monday 8 February 1999:

The NC posts a message pointing out some mistakes he made in handling the

current motion [to adjourn]. Seems according to PPP he should have opened

the floor for a period of discussion and then called for a vote. He

promises to try and get it right. [hint: its spelled 'faux pas']

The board member who originally posted the motion to adjourn admits his

ignorance of how this Board operates, and rather than withdraw his motion

he votes "nay" on it to save time.

Secret Message to the Board Corner: DON'T make the same mistake twice.

"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign,

that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

---Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects

This has been Your Daily Board Show. Always watching. Don't forget that.

-Teresa Lindquist

merope@radix.net

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From merope@Radix.Net Thu Feb 11 17:02:23 1999

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 17:02:17 -0500 (EST)

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Better than nothing...its Your Daily Board Show!

*warning* contains spicy and delicious editorial content. Read at your

own risk!

Tuesday 9 February 1999

The Archives rep posts a message from Linda regarding the Archives Census

Project. It seems that the Census people have decided to go their own way

and have formed their own archives and are uploading transcribed census

material there rather than to Linda's archives site. Linda assures

everyone that the USGenWeb Archives Census Project is still active and

asks that anyone who doesn't want to participate please let her know.

[hey, you read it here first, how many weeks ago?]

There is no further voting on the motion to adjourn.

Two is Twice as Good As One Corner: So now the USGenWeb Project has a

wealth of Census Projects. In one corner, we have the original USGW

Archives Census Project, and in the other we have the new USGW Census

Project Archives, recently wrenched from the grasping claws of Linda

"Queen of the Archives" Lewis. There is much confusion. Linda claims

that many volunteers who signed up for _her_ version of the Census project

have been switched without their knowledge or consent to the new one. The

USGW Census Project Archives [the new one] claims they made the move

because the project cannot grow any further under the constraints of the

USGW Archives Census Project's [old one] archiving system and because the

USGW Archives Census Project [old one] file managers were changing

filenames and altering files. But guess what!? When the USGW Census

Project Archives [new one] gets a new transcription they notify the USGW

Archives Census Project [old one] file managers who then go and copy it

into their archives! Big wins for everyone! Except of course for poor

overtaxed Rootsweb, which gets to store double copies of every census

transcription uploaded. According to its Coordinator, the USGW Census

Project Archives [new one] will shortly be moving to its own domain on

Rootsweb and all are very excited about it. [Confused yet? Don't be. The

salient point in all this is that all the files are still on RW, and they

all still belong to Brian. I almost feel sorry for him, getting stuck in

the middle of a cat fight like this.]

Secret Message to the Board Corner: Remember what happened the last time?

"That people do not learn very much from history is the most important of

all the lessons history has to teach."

---Aldous Huxley

This has been your Daily Board Show.

-Teresa Lindquist

merope@radix.net

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From merope@Radix.Net Fri Feb 12 16:38:08 1999

Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 16:38:07 -0500 (EST)

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Wednesday 10 February 1999

There is no Board-L traffic on this date

[yep, no further votes on the motion to adjourn.]

What the Heck Corner: Received this rumor yesterday from someone who is

highly placed enough to know whereof he speaks:

"the 'new' census files are not searchable by RW's search engine!

Also, the rumor mill has it that when the 'new' census get's it's own

domain - it may be moved to another place (hint - USIGS auspices)"

[For the record, this is ludicrous. But, what the heck, its a slow day.]

News to Use Corner: The R-files has been updated with two new Tales of

Rootweb, and NEW redacted versions of the Board-L meetings have been

posted. Sanitized for the Board's protection, these files fully meet the

fair use provision of US Copyright law. Please visit

http://www.radix.net/~merope. Enjoy your stay!

Big Brother Corner: While researching one of the new Tales of Rootsweb

mentioned above, I found that at least one unhappy Rootsweb camper has

filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission. You can too!

http://www.ftc.gov. Complaint file number is 444020, should you want to

mention it.

In Other News: We hear Don Spidell is doing a little better, but there is

still much concern over his recovery.

Secret Message to the Board Corner: Nice try.

"Never, 'for the sake of peace and quiet', deny your own experience or

convictions."

--- Dag Hammerskjold

This has been your Daily Board Show.

-Teresa Lindquist

merope@radix.net

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From merope@Radix.Net Sat Feb 13 18:38:24 1999

Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 18:38:23 -0500 (EST)

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Running with the wolves...its Your Daily Board Show!

*warning* disgust level dangerously high, contains editorial content.

Read at your own risk!

Thursday 11 Feb 1999

One Board members moves "to appoint a secretary which was tabled in the

Oct. 4, 1998 meeting be reopened and a secretary be appointed."

There is still no further action on the motion currently on the floor for

a vote. [if I remember correctly, it stands at six "nays"]

Congrats Corner: It is whispered that Bonnie McVicar-Briggs is the new

NE/NC representative.

Reign of Terror Corner: In their never-ending quest to support and affirm

"bottoms-up" management of the project, Board members are now threatening

CCs in good standing with the loss of their counties and expulsion from

the project if they continue to participate in activities of which the

Board does not approve. A "former Board member and recently elected

regional representative" has in the last few days threatened a project

member with the loss of his/her county and told him/her they'd be kicked

out of the project if they continued to participate in a group in which this

author is also involved.

It appears that as far as the Board is concerned the only good CC is a

quiet CC.

Now you might think that the Board could find better things to do with

their time, like get around to voting on the motion currently on the

floor, or appointing a secretary, or writing their Daily Board Report

[hey, I'd sure like to know what they are up to!], or maybe even finding

a replacement for Pam Reid. But you would be wrong. It is far far more

important that the Board strive diligently to maintain the appearance that

all the CCs are happy little campers. And to that end they are apparently

willing to hold CCs' counties over their heads. And not just CCs, either.

Rumor has it they are turning on their own as well.

What is next? Will they threaten to delink and rebuild an entire state to

get rid of one person? [Don't think it hasn't been discussed and don't

think they wouldn't do it if they thought they could get away with it.]

What will they do if I ever run for office and get elected? Would they

all have to quit the Board if I'm on it? Will it someday say in the

bylaws that associating informally and on your own time with members who

the Board does not like will make you a member not-in-good-standing and be

cause to forfeit your counties? How far will they go?

[For the record, I thought much much higher of the Board member who

threatened my colleague. I guess, once again, that esteem has been

misplaced. *shrug* Live and learn.]

Secret Message to the Board Corner: Shall I start with the Tale of the

Missing Board Member?

"A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without

freedom it will never be anything but bad.... Freedom is nothing else but

a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse."

--Albert Camus

This has been your Daily Board Show.

-Teresa Lindquist

merope@radix.net

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From merope@Radix.Net Sun Feb 14 14:02:49 1999

Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 14:02:34 -0500 (EST)

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Friday 12 February 1999

The motion to reopen the motion to appoint a secretary that was tabled at

the Oct 4 meeting is seconded.

[_Still_ no further voting on the motion to adjourn. Is it even remotely

appropriate to consider other project business when there is a motion to

adjourn on the floor?]

Tomorrow's News Today: The NC opens the floor for discussion of the motion

to appoint a secretary. Much discussion ensues as to what a secretary

is and what one does. Bonnie McVicar-Briggs is welcomed to the fray.

Living in the Past Corner: We are happy to report that the Webmaster has

finally gotten around to updating the "Who's Who" page to add the new

Board members. Funny, the list _still_ includes Non-Board Member Karen

Isaacson although Board members have indicated she is listed

inappropriately on that page. Now we would like to direct the Webmaster's

attention to the 'Member's votes" and "upcoming votes" pages. The latter

still presents the Board's ill-fated attempt to lower the iron fist of

repression on the membership. Wouldn't want visitors to our page thinking

that is still pending business, would we? Also, the motion to adjourn

is not represented on the "members' votes" page.

In Remembrance Corner: To commemorate the 30 day anniversary of the

"temporary" banning of the Rootsweb Four, a brief summary of the events

preceding the banning has been compiled and posted by some of the

participants in the events. Go to http://www.radix.net/~merope/banned.htm

to Read All About It. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr.

Brian Leverich for banning me. Without his action I would never have had

the opportunity to meet new friends, hear wonderful stories of other

Rootsweb bannings, learn about the FTC complaint (FTC file #444020), or

have so much fun working on web pages. Since I'm sure I won't be

reinstated in this lifetime, you may all be assured that RadioFree

USGENWEB will continue to broadcast All The News That's Fit To Print [and

then some!].

"Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That

would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right

to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."

---Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson

This has been your Daily Board Show!

-Teresa Lindquist

merope@radix.net

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