Hi Al,

the server is neither JTL nor any other commercial operation, and no one can
make any money out of this transfer (well, we do save $300 per year as a
group).

This action is in the financial best interests of our group, and will not
reduce our level of service.

This decision has been made, is to be implemented expeditiously by Jim
Sheehan and should not really be considered open to much debate, Al. There
is no real need.

We have also rescheduled our board meeting on these issues for next week.
I'll keep in touch.

Thanks,
Paul

I'll be in contact
----- Original Message -----
From: Al Heigl <alheigl@rconnect.com>
To: Paul Jensen <poppoppj@visi.com>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 11:16 PM
Subject: Domain move situation


> 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