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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 15:57:47 -0500 (EST)
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locked position...its Your Daily Board Show!
*warning* stormy weather and editorial content ahead. Read at your own
risk!
Sunday 31 January 1999
Kathy Heidel posts a farewell message to the Board and one Board member
posts that he is sorry to see her go and he enjoyed her input to the
Board.
On to Something New Corner: The State Coordinators are now discussing
whether it is appropriate for the same page to be affiliated with two
different genealogy/history projects. Seems a USGW CC was approached by
Another Group about doing a page for the same project and since the page
already contains material pertinent to the focus of both groups, the CC
just wants to have it serve as the page for both [ie, one page, two
logos]. Some SCs think this is OK; another thinks the "logistics" need to
be worked out; another points out that the Other Group harbors two of the
Rootsweb Four. [hey, at least they aren't talking about standards and
ethics anymore]
Today's quote, you guessed it, is from a reader:
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea
that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're
licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and you see it through no
matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
---Harper Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird"
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-Teresa Lindquist
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From merope@Radix.Net Wed Feb 3 16:40:44 1999
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 16:40:43 -0500 (EST)
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Like a rolling stone...its Your Daily Board Show!
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Monday 1 February 1999
The election results are posted [these have already been presented here
and other lists and won't be repeated.]
One Board member posts that she will miss departing Board members Kathy
Heidel and Gary Martens and values their contributions to the Board.
In Other News: There will be a run-off election between Bonnie McVicar
Briggs and David Young, for the NE/NC CC rep position. The election will
start Feb 5 and conclude Feb 11. Presumably ballots will be mailed to
the region's voters.
"If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be
freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is
sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist
to protect them."
-- George Orwell
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-Teresa Lindquist
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From merope@Radix.Net Fri Feb 12 11:10:45 1999
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 21:45:50 -0500 (EST)
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Mama mia! ... its Your Daily Board Show!
*warning* will contain editorial content, not to be taken lightly. Read
at your own risk!
Tuesday 2 February 1999
The announcement of the run-off election is posted to Board-L by the
Election Committee Chair.
Go Figure Corner: The State Coordinators are discussing the imminent
run-off election [those who will be voting in it should get their ballots
tomorrow]. The discussion is remarkable only for this marvelous quote,
from an SC who was wondering why 44 votes doesn't beat 41: "This is just
plain dumb, I know the bylaws are up to how you interpret them but I
would think that section means in case of a tie." [not so dumb,
really; indeed, who knows what the bylaws truly mean? Although in this
case, they do pretty clearly state "A majority of those members voting
shall elect."]
"They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because
humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against
despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not
free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty."
--Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious
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-Teresa Lindquist
merope@radix.net
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From merope@Radix.Net Fri Feb 5 20:30:58 1999
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 20:30:57 -0500 (EST)
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We don't need no thought control...its Your Daily Board Show!
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your own risk!
Wednesday 3 February 1999
The new National Coordinator of the USGenWeb Project, Tim Stowell, calls
the meeting to order:
"Having been handed the gavel by the Interim National Coordinator, Beth
Wills, I call the post election 1999 USGenWeb Project Board to order and
ask the members to acknowledge their presence."
[wait---did they ever adjourn the last meeting? Never mind, let the wild
rumpus begin!]
Nine Board members indicate they are present.
Tomorrow's news today: One Board member moves immediately to adjourn and
this motion is seconded. [so much for the wild rumpus...]
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from
oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that
will reach to himself."
--Thomas Paine
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-Teresa Lindquist
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From merope@Radix.Net Sat Feb 6 18:16:50 1999
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 18:16:49 -0500 (EST)
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Thursday 4 Feb 1999
One Board member posts the following:
"Why are we sitting in session? Our presence to you has been
acknowledged. If there is nothing to take up [and there
should have been some kind of agenda posted if there was] then
I move to adjourn."
The motion is seconded.
One further member responds "present" to the call to order.
Will We Never See the End Corner?: The DBS is saddened to learn of yet
another long-term (Sept 1996) USGW County Coordinator that has been Banned
by Rootsweb. The gentleman in question has been 'temporarily' suspended
from using ALL Rootsweb resources such as mailing lists and search
engines, provisional on his "pleading his case" to Tim Pierce. As with
the Rootsweb Four, his suspension came without warning or notification of
any kind, and he was publicly accused of threatening Rootsweb's
systems, an accusation he strenuously denies. The Board has declined to
get involved, and his state coordinator is not allowing further discussion
of the banning on the state list. And, in a not entirely unexpected
development, Brian "Little Big Man" Leverich has taken to threatening the
banned CC's supporters on the state mailing list [does this man read
_every_ list on RW?]. Seems if the CC's supporters continue to make posts
not to his liking, RW will attach a nasty note to every mail of theirs
going through Rootsweb.
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's
character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
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-Teresa Lindquist
merope@radix.net
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From merope@Radix.Net Sun Feb 7 15:51:48 1999
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 15:51:47 -0500 (EST)
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Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn...its Your Daily Board Show!
*warning* deep editorial content straight ahead. Read at your own risk!
Friday 5 February 1999
A post from one of the state lists is forwarded to Board-L by one of the
Board members regarding an article in the March issue of Good Housekeeping
that mentions USGW. From the article [presumably]:
"Another painstaking effort, this site pulls together birth, marriage,
death, and other records-county by county throughout the United States.
Each Web page, which may include such rich sources as cemetery records and
newspapter [sic] clippings, tells you exactly where to search."
There is apparently no further activity on the motion to adjourn.
"The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point.
Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to
tolerate speech."
---Justice Anthony Kennedy, 91-155
This has been your Daily Board Show.
-Teresa Lindquist
merope@radix.net
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