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From: "Ms. Piglet" <>
Subject: [USGenWeb-SW] Rebuttal
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 09:12:52 -0500
In-Reply-To: <200207270610.g6R6A0M11533@pml.rootsweb.com>

Thoughtful of you to attack me on a list I wasn't on, Don.....I'm here now,
though....and I'm copying the list that you've been willing to talk to me
directly on.

First off: the Dills started out, just before incorporation, pressuring me
heavily to sell them usgenweb.net and said they would also be pressuring
Brian to sell them usgenweb.org ---this was while they were taking
usgenweb.com from Doc. It sounds clear to me in retrospect from that that
their intent was to present USGenWeb, Inc., as a done deal, owning all three
domains and having absolute control of the project.

(In the event, they did not approach Brian at all, as I made it very clear
that as far as I was concerned, usgenweb.net belonged to the *project*, and
was not mine to sell, even though I had paid for it and it was in my name.
Brian would have given them the same answer about usgenweb.org, had they
asked him.)

As far as I am concerned, then and now, at the moment they did that, they
demonstrated that they were no friends to me or to the project. I'm not
entirely sure that the term "personal friends" even applies here; these are
folks who I knew only from USGenWeb, only online, other than having had Lucy
stay at my house for a week once....and to have them turn around and do what
they did says to me that you've got it backward about which friends turned
on whom.

Now if your belief is that this demonstrates that they're the "good guys"
and I'm the "bad guy", and that an honorable person, holding the office of
National Coordinator should have sold out the project to "friends" rather
than standing up for the project and its members, then yes, I "turned on
friends."

As should be apparent, I do *not* see it that way. My beliefs are that when
one takes on the role of National Coordinator, one's greatest loyalties
*have* to be to the project, and any and all personal relationships with
other project members have to take a back seat to that.

As to "secret lists": it sounds like you're forgetting your history.
Neither the elected board nor the bylaws existed at that time---I had the
first appointed "board", which had no official standing, and at that time
functioned more as an advisory council to me (think "kitchen cabinet", if
you want a Washington, D.C., analogy). There was only one list, board-L,
which was unarchived. There was no reason for it to be archived; there was
no "board of directors" function involved.

--pig


On 7/27/02 1:10 AM, <> shared this thought (on
usgenweb-sw-L):

<snippage excluding all except what deals with me>
> Going on, Megan Zurawicz: turned on her personal friends (Jerry and Lucy
> Dill). One of our more turbulent periods that could have easily been
> avoided with a little dialog and understanding if that is what she had
> desired. Dissension within the project to this day. Also, I believe Megan
> may be the NC that instituted the "secret lists"
<snippage>

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