Heads Up to All Ohio CCs -
CCs can no longer use the USGENWEB-ALL list at Rootsweb to get in touch
with others from other states or view the news of various project events
and the usual discussions about Board business and such. Rootsweb/Ancestry
policy now considers lists using "USGenWeb" or "USGW" in their names
to be
the responsibility of The USGenWeb Project. The ALL list has been closed
by the new listowner, the NC, to open discussions. It is now an
ANNOUNCE-ONLY list managed by him. He has said this is temporary until he
and his Board can determine whatever rules they want for the list. Gone
are the days of an open forum where any CC can subscribe and find out
what's going on in the national project.
The NC has also made it plain that CCs may no longer send materials to
their representative to be sent to the Board as it was done in the
past. CCs may send comments and displeasures to their reps (ours are
below), but before such comments can be sent to the Board, the NC must
approve them. This creates the untenable (to me) reality that the NC will
permit ONLY what he agrees with to be part of Board-L discussions, and he
also controls what used to be our other avenue to be heard, the ALL
list. The only way now to know what is going on before it is 'written'
into the do-it-or-get-out rules, is to subscribe to BOARD-L(a)rootsweb.com
and see the Board in action yourself.
In the event someone wants to say something to a larger audience, a CC must
use their State Lists or their Regional Lists (so says the NC). Whether
that will reach anyone on the Board is determined by the representatives to
the Board subscribed to those lists. As it is required for Ohio CCs to be
subscribed to this OHGEN-L list, we in Ohio are blessed that our region's
reps are Ohio CCs and should at least see anything we, as Ohio CCs, wish to
send to this list. The Northeast/Northcentral representatives to the
USGenWeb Advisory Board are
"Robert Bremer" <bremerr(a)oclc.org>
"Jan Cortez" <cristian(a)netonecom.net>
Have a good day!
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