Paul, I just had an exchange of messages with Jim on the request (who
and when).  He's sounding totally cooperative, but perhaps he isn't as
retentive on saving e-mails as I am.

Anyway, his last message (in full):

"It was either Jason or DeDe someone....

Jim Sheehan
www.outtech.com"


Even without knowing the date of the original request, it looks to me
like Jason heard he was going to be the new MN Mensa Webmaster, so
decided to move our website, probably to JTL Networks, which is located
in Columbus, Ohio (http://www.jtlnet.com/). They have some super-cheapo
hosting plans, but they also make a big deal out of reseller accounts,
so I am guessing that Jason has one, and would get a piece of the action
if he moved the domain there, which seems a bit conflict-of-interest-ish
to me.

(Did Jason transfer in from the Columbus, OH area, by any chance?)

JTL's servers run under Linux, and so do not support the FrontPage
extensions, so we would lose all of FrontPage's site-management
features, which our site's current size and growing complexity really
benefits from.


Logic tells me that DeDe told Jason he'd be the new Webmaster for our
website, so he immediately looked up Jim's name and e-mailed him for a
domain transfer.

I asked Jim in my first message to apprise me of the sooner-later thing
and the $200 vs $15 thing, but he didn't answer those particular
questions.


Logic for the future:

The request for a domain transfer had absolutely nothing to do with me
-- nobody even told me about it until after the request had been made,
presumably by Jason.

Therefore, this should not be an "issue" in the Board voting to rescind
its previous action and re-appoint me Webmaster for our MN Mensa
website.

If the Board does that, then Jason no longer would have any authority to
move the site, and we'd just cancel the request. (I would never put
anybody's site on JTL's servers, if only for technical considerations.)

In MN Mensa's case, we'd lose all our valuable automated site
management.

As I said, Jim Sheehan didn't provide me with all the specific details,
but did give me enough to figure out what it's all about, and that's
what I've passed along to you.

I hope we can keep the cart before the horse here.  Whether or not the
site gets moved depends first on who is its Webmaster, not vice versa.

I also hope this gives you sufficient information.  Let me know if I can
do more on this particular thing.

Al