Terria and other Discuss subscribers,
As much as we might all like to do so, we cannot be our brother's keeper. If all
CCs don't want to participate on the discuss list, then that is their choice. Since
when is it so bad to sit back and quietly take care of your county and stay out of
folk's way? It seems most of the CCs I have communicated with simply want to do
genealogy and not be bothered by all these politics. Maybe, they have full active
days in their "Real Life" and simply do genealogy for fun and a little
relaxation.
Maybe, they don't want to spend every moment of their leisure time with their nerves
tied up in knots because of the stress that sometimes comes over these lists . . .
I'm saying maybe, because this is simply the impression I have gathered by dealing
with folks.
Terria Baynor wrote:
That is all well and good Elizabeth, in theory it sounded good to make the L list
read only. But when you are stiffled with threats of removal as a cc in the
state because you speak out by sending emails to other cc's then what alternative
does a cc have to reach everyone? You say that you can reach them by contacting
Sharon and ask her to post it on NCGenWeb. That won't work....she won't post
it.
Terria, just what have YOU asked me to post that I wouldn't post? I'd like
to know!
I was told by Sharon that it takes one small paragraph to make a motion. When
someone makes a proper motion, she will send it out on the mandatory list. She
will not send out long long e-mails that are full of arguments for or against the
motions.
Terria, you made the motion and I immediately put it on the NCGenWeb Read Only list.
I did not critique it, and I did not put any opinions along with it. I simply said
enough to try and make it clear just what the motion was.
But yet she can come on the L-list and state her personal opinions of
a
motion? We can't....this means that these cc's have a right to know privately
my
or anybody elses viewpoints. If I did that same thing and it is called spamming,
yet she is using our mandatory board to spam her ideas.....THIS IS NOT
ACCEPTABLE!
Excuse me? Any opinion I have posted to the mandatory list was in response to
the message you had posted to the CCs. If you had not done as you did by posting
privately to each and every CC, then there would have been no need for me to have
posted my opinion of your actions.
Last night, once I had posted your message making the motions that we are now
supposed to be discussing, yes, I did turn around and post an opinion to the
DISCUSS list. NOT THE MANDATORY LIST. I, also am a CC and have just as much right
to an opinion on these matters as anyone else does.
She wouldn't post Sandy's repeated requests to rectify her own boo-boo. Why?
Because she (I) didn't make a boo-boo. I may not have made myself as clear as
I
should, but I never said what I was accused of, and once I saw there had been a
misunderstanding, I posted a clarification statement to everyone. I didn't want
anyone to miss out on my explanation. I didn't want to take a chance that others
also might be thinking the same way Sandy had understood it.
It wouldn't have hurt her one bit to have reposted Sandy's
stuff.
I made it clear to Sandy that when, and if, someone asked for a copy of her post
I would be glade to send it out to them. I never received even one such request
and therefore I never sent her post to anyone. The offer still stands . . .
She wouldn't
respond to Horace's suggestion to have a domain name. Seems that the L list has
become so controlled that the cc's are even less informed of things that are
going on that concern them.
Terria, you get funnier and funnier. Sandy is a big girl and I have never noticed
that she has a problem seeing to her own affairs. The same goes for Horace. He is
more than capable of fighting his own battles. How about you take care of you and
the rest of us will do the same by taking care of our own problems. We are all here
to do genealogy, and if that isn't what you want to do with your time and energy,
then maybe you are in the wrong hobby. There is no reason for bickering and straining
at every tiny little thing that happens. Look for the bad in me and I am sure you
will find plenty. Look for the good, and you might just happen to find some of that
also. Let's call a truce. If you want to do genealogy, let's do genealogy.
You tell me what are the cc's alternatives, please, I would like to know!
Terria,
Do you think it would be fair for me to make you happy by doing something that
would maybe make about 90% of the other CCs unhappy? I'm trying to be fair to
everyone. Sometimes that doesn't make everyone happy. For THAT truth of life,
I am sorry, but THAT IS LIFE!
Sometimes, as I mentioned a week or so ago, we need to be able to apply the
principles of the well known Serenity Prayer -
God grant me the Serenity
To accept the things I cannot change
The Courage to change the things I can
and the Wisdom to know the difference
Now, the motion is on the floor as to whether we wish to pursue having our
own Domain. Any more discussion?
Thanks,
Sharon Williamson
NCGenWeb SC
Watauga and Caldwell CC