I agree with you, Dan. Accessibility is the key to website management.
Shirley
--- On Mon, 4/23/12, dirtdoc(a)neb.rr.com <dirtdoc(a)neb.rr.com> wrote:
From: dirtdoc(a)neb.rr.com <dirtdoc(a)neb.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [MTGEN] Fw: Montana GenWeb Project / Difficulty Contacting County
Coordinators
To: mtgen(a)rootsweb.com
Cc: "Shirley Cullum" <shirlcullum(a)sbcglobal.net>
Date: Monday, April 23, 2012, 6:11 PM
Shirley,
I am guessing that part of this is because of our recently disencumbered Server problems.
I know I had an outdated address on my page for almost two years - simply due to access
problems.
Dan
---- Shirley Cullum <shirlcullum(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Judy and I received the following message (snipped to keep certain
information confidential) today. The writer is concerned about the "lack of e-mail
addresses to contact county coordinators" in the MTGenWeb Project. The problem
reflects badly on the entire project and needs to be corrected.
The USGenWeb requires all sites to display the CC's name AND email address. A contact
form may be used for the email but it must be easily accessible. Please make sure your
county website is compliant with the requirement.
Contact me if you need assistance.
Thanks,Shirley
<snip>
Date: Monday, April 23, 2012, 2:08 PM
To: Montana GenWeb Project
Shirley Cullum, State Coordinator: shirlcullum(a)sbcglobal.net
Judy Wallis White, Assistant State Coordinator, jjwalliswhite(a)gmail.com
From: Terry Kayes, Writer and Historian, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ret.),
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Ret.)
Subject: Seeming Lack of Appropriate E-Mail Addresses to Contact County Coordinators for
Montana GenWeb Project
As a writer and historian who has recently been gearing up to write a series of
monographs (or maybe a book) on the social and economic history of western and central
Montana during the period 1863 to 1918, in relation to the migration, movement and
relationships between people and families in Montana, I've recently been developing a
list of sources and contact people for this project. In trying to do this, I have been
surprised at how many of Montana's GenWeb County Coordinators appear to have gone
about the business of making themselves difficult or impossible to contact.
Perhaps, I am wrong on this, but one standard tactic seems to be to try to first dissuade
anybody from contacting them, then referring to an email address for them that is either
difficult or impossible to find anywhere on the website.
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