RADIO FREE USGENWEB....broadcasting live from pirate satellite! The following information represents summarized information from the minutes of the Advisory Board of the USGenWeb Project, obtained from the publicly available archives at Rootsweb. The original messages are no longer available at that site, and I have been placed under a threat of lawsuit if I post them. Thus they are here summarized for your information; all quotations from the original material are clearly marked and fall under the fair use' provision of U.S. copyright law. If you want to see the originals, petition the Board for them. Message ID numbers have been provided to make this easier for you. Material in brackets constitutes editorial comments. All the following material represents the personal opinion of this author, based on my understanding of events and on the original material. As always, there are two sides to every coin, and if anyone wishes to clarify or rebut anything below, I will be happy to post it. 28 NOVEMBER 1998 Highlights: Motion 98-9; closing the list. ++++++++++++ Motion 98-9, the motion requesting RW for a direct link from their front page to the USGW main page is discussed briefly among the members and is the source of some confusion about voting procedures. The acting National Coordinator posts a message that the voting on this motion has failed for lack of a quorum. He notifies the members that the motion may be reposted to BOARD-L at any time. (Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 19:06:09 -0500; From: Bob Bamford ; Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19981128190609.007ce280@citrus.infi.net>; Subject: Motion 98-9) Board member Holly Timm informs the acting National Coordinator that the motion was never posted to BOARD-EXEC for a vote. (Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 19:22:08 -0500; From: Holly Timm ; Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19981128192208.00b57520@mail.bright.net>; Subject: Re: Motion 98-9} Board member Betsy Mills also asks for the motion to be placed on BOARD-L, as it was never posted there. She did not vote on the motion because she was waiting for it to appear on the public list. [Betsy then goes on to express some frustration with the "two list" setup, as indicated in the following quotation. This is particular area of frustation is shared by a number of project members. Perhaps it is indicative of the difficulty of trying to remember which list what is posted to and where they may speak openly and where they may not. She expresses this sentiment better than I could. Ed.] "This is getting really hard to follow. We need to have more on the board list besides the motion only after it has been decided on this list. I am getting complaints. If all we are doing is posting the motion, the second, and the voting, then what is the difference between it and the web page??" (Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 18:25:20 -0600; From: Betsy Mills ; Message-Id: <199811290022.QAA27740@bl-3.rootsweb.com>; Subject: Re: Motion 98-9) ++++++++++ The final two messages on this date are from Bob Bamford. The first directs Kay Mason, as list administrator, unsub everyone from BOARD EXEC and states that "All future business will be conducted on the board-l list". (Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 19:23:56 -0500; From: Bob Bamford ; Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19981128192356.007d2290@citrus.infi.net>; Subject: This list) The final message is in response to Betsy Mills' previous message [see above] and notes that the problem of confusion between the two lists has been resolved as per his previous message. (Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 19:28:10 -0500; From: Bob Bamford ; Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19981128192810.007d7100@citrus.infi.net>; Subject: Re: Motion 98-9) [This departure from BOARD-EXEC lasted exactly 5 days. The entire Board moved its meeting back into "executive session" on 4 December 1998, without notice to the project membership that they were doing so. Ed.] ------------------------------ Radio Free USGENWEB, 1998, Teresa Lindquist, all rights reserved.