USGenWeb volunteers,
Many people have been sending comments, complaints, questions, etc.
to their individual Advisory Board representatives asking for some
official action, opinion, etc., without sending a copy to the rest
of the Board.
This is fine, since it is a lot easier for you to know who your
Rep is than to try to make a To list covering the entire board.
But it is usually impossible for a rep to make any official response
without first discussing the issue or request with the rest of the
Advisory Board members. Since we try to follow standard email etiquette
of not forwarding messages without the permission of the sender, this
introduces a significant delay in making any response, where the
Board member sends a message to the person who contacted them, asking
for permission to forward their email to the rest of the Board, and
waits for a reply.
Since most people aren't online constantly, it could cut a day off
the response time if anybody sending mail to an Advisory Board member
asking for some official Board action would specify whether or not
it is OK to forward their message to the rest of the Advisory Board.
State Coordinators, since most of these messages come from County
Coordinators, and USGENWEB-ALL is not really nearly "all", could you
please forward this reminder to your state lists?
Thanks,
Teri Pettit
CC-Rep, SE/Mid-Atlantic Region
P.S. It is our policy to keep specific details of complaints on the
private BOARD-EXEC-L, to protect the privacy and security of the
project members involved, while discussing general issues, policy
guidelines, and procedures on the archived list BOARD-L, searchable
at
http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl So if you
want your message forwarded to BOARD-L, be aware that we may bleep
out names, states, and other identifying details.