At 10:22 PM 5/30/2002 -0400, Ron Eason wrote:
And the Gentleman was telling the truth.
The buying up of the state domains, .COM and .NET, was done
by someone else, who had no interest in North Carolina or any of the
other 30+ states she purchased the domains. They were to be used
to start a new Project that went defunct.
If this is the case, then, for the former CC the timing of the actions of
the other party were unfortunately coincidental. His actions, combined
with her actions, led a number of people to believe that it was a
coordinated effort to force the NCGenWeb project as a whole to go along
with establishing a domain that had already been voted down by the group.
However his requests may or may not have been out of line.
What I wonder is, was the action of filing these different registrations,
done in the open, with the full consent and vote of the members of
the NCGenWeb ? Or were they done before getting a vote to do so.
I am not against bettering the Project, I am not against protecting the
name and honor of the NCGW, but it should be open and honest
and be done with everyone's agreement.
If you mean the registration of the service mark & of the project as an
unincorporated non-profit group, I don't recall that the topics
specifically were brought up, or brought to a vote. I think it was more of
a general consensus that action should be taken to prevent the name of the
NCGenWeb Project from being associated with inappropriate pages.
Whichever theory you subscribe to (coincidence or conspiracy), I believe
it's safe to say that the whole uproar over the domain name was not our
finest hour.
Angie