The site was set up to be user friendly and I think that has been accomplished.

If this was made up in 4 or 5 sites rather than 2, there would be many, at least triple duplications of effort, information, taking up much extra time, extra harddrive and server space. Not a situation which many would be willing to accept based on the amount of time required to maintain 4 separate sites. Such duplication would be a turn off for viewers which they do not need.

Why is it mandatory [strongly suggested as mandatory] to link to the OGW Volunteer page [this past 2 weeks I have found at least 9 pages/links on that site that did not work, 6 on July 18.99. This is why I did not make a link to the OGW Volunteer page ( Aug.23.99 update, the above 6 pages were reported to Sherri & Kimberly, as not working on July 18th, 1999, 3 of which are still not working, namely -- NewVolunteer page, logos, Signup News - as of Aug.23.99) ] but not mandatory for county Hosts to link to the next door county, if the aim is indeed to help viewers find area information?

Prioities seem to be heading backwards with unnecessary roadblocks.

To me this whole set up seems unnecessary and very little short of being a farce.

Helping others for whatever the need is risky. We are all volunteers, not part of an Army Regiment. Turning these volunteer efforts to help into a contest of who can outsmart who, and a comparison of styles and ability will do more to negate the helping than the reverse.

There also seems to be a case of taking on to many tasks while abandoning/neglecting the need to look after what is already trying to be done. Maintaining a web site is time consuming, especially when things do not go right, like solving the reason for a blank page that shouldn't exist.

There is always a lot that needs to be done, no matter the passion of the person doing the job, but we are all limited by the 24 hour day we live in, in getting things done.

To much effort in my opinion is being used by the --powers that be-- to turn an interesting venture into a cold and robotic makeup, with little or no leeway for flexibity, humor or different views of approach.

The --powers that be-- both on and off the Internet these past about 30 years have never really welcomed my method of helping people, but that method has succeeded beyond what most are willing to admit to themselves, let alone in public. That help imperfect as it is viewed, is what in the end counts and over the time period concerned has touched 1000's and 1000's and 1000's of individuals.