Sharon and List,
I am sorry to have posted something that offended anyone because the persons
name wasn't listed. I chose not to list it because I thought the point was
the message, not who wrote it. Next time I will make sure to just sign my
name to it.
I guess maybe I am not getting the point and now wonder if I ever will!
So.....then just reject Horace's offer. It would be like anyone else that
can purchase any available domain name. They have the option of doing
whatever they want with it. Doesn't matter what is done with it, if CC's
don't want it as you say. Lets just forget it then, if it causes this much
bickering and fighting. I don't know if I can withdraw my motion, since it
has been seconded, but if so, please do it. If not, lets vote it down and
get on with the program.... I am tired of all of this fighting. It will be
our loss, but lets move on.
Someone told me recently, you have to know when to hold em, know when to
fold em. Well I am folding them, this isn't worth fighting over. Mistakes
can be made by all and some may not be fixed, but we all have to live by the
decisions we make. If burying your head in the sand is the best way the
majority want to handle this, then so be it.
I do hope that you all here in NC learn to compromise. Approaching someone
and demanding that they do this, this and this is not the way to get things
done. I don't believe you are going to get Horace to "surrender" anything
and if you think you can threaten and harass him into submission, you need
to think again. Most people will just rebel against that kind of behavior.
So please learn to compromise, the alternative could be devistating to this
project.
These are my thoughts only! I am compromising by giving up my fight for our
domain name, I hope you compromise and talk to Horace nicely and work
something out that we all can live with!
Thank you for listening/reading!
Terria
Sharon Williamson wrote:
Terria,
If someone wants their messages posted on the discuss list, the least
they can do is to identify themselves. We are not really interested
in what unidentified people have to say about our business. If this is
a NCGENWEB CC, then they can subscribe for themselves. If no, then
at least let them offer their opinions openly.
And, you still aren't getting the point. The very fact that Horace
chose to purchase the domain and then offer it to NCGENWEB with
strings attached, shows that he has absolutely no respect for the
wishes of the NCGENWEB CCs who had just voted that they did not want
to have a domain. Now that he has created the domain, the only way
he is offering it to the NCGENWEB project is IF his conditions are
met, and those conditions go directly against what the majority of
CCs wanted when the issue was voted on.
Maybe every intention doesn't have to be financial. Maybe he is
simply determined to be in control and have things his way.
Sharon Williamson
NCGENWEB SC
Terria Baynor wrote:
>
> List:
> I was asked to send this to the list. It is a comment from someone in
> the
> USGenWeb project. Their views of this situation.
>
> "Horace didn't do wrong, and it's hard to criticize others directly
> related to a specific state project (SD, NY, TN, etc.) from acquiring
> a domain name.
>
> Now on the national level, I think the motives of two can be
> questioned. I can understand Brian L. for acquiring the
Usgenweb.org
> domain name back when he did. But the fact that considered it a
> business asset and not a personal asset, when he sold Rootsweb, is
> very questionable, and bordering being deceitful. Consider the money
> involved, less than $200, in a sale of Rootsweb worth millions. Then
> Doc Schneider who owns one of the other domain names. What's his
> motive? He's not active in the USGenWeb project, so is his motive
> money, that is, the sale of the domain name for a profit?"
>
> My comments:
> We need to look at why Horace did what he did. Does he have personal
> gain as a
> motive here? It is obvious that he doesn't if he is willing to give
> it to our
> project, for nothing but our committment to protect it and use it.
> Thank you!
> Terria