Minutes of the May 24, 1995 Board Meeting

May 28 18:00 UTC 1995

Minutes of the Board Meeting of Cyberspace Communications Inc.
Held at 7 PM on May 24, 1995 at the Michigan Union Food Court 


I. The meeting was called to order at 7:11 PM. Those present were:

Valerie Mates <popcorn>, Rob Henderson <robh>,
John Remmers <remmers>, Mary Remmers <chelsea>, STeve Andre' <steve>,
Staci Andre' <sea>, Glenda Andre' <glenda>, Rane Curl <rcurl>,
Dan Romanchik <danr>, Connie Marker, Marc Unangst <mju>,
Steve Weiss <srw>, Richard Pirie <bruin>
 
Some of these participants listed here, including your secretary,
did not arrive until after the meeting had begun. The portion of 
these minutes covering the meeting before I arrived were taken 
by John Remmers. Thanks, John!



II. Treasurer's Report (danr)

Dan reported that this month was a bad month for donations. Only $275
was taken in.



III. 501(c)3 Committee Report (rcurl)

Rane reported that the corporate papers are spread around on his desk now.
He has asked danr for financial statement.



IV. Computer Rehabilitation Committee Report (rcurl)

Things are in TS's living room.



V. Publicity Committee Report

Misti was not present, so this report was deferred.



VI. Technical Committee Report (steve)

There were no large changes in the system. The biggest thing has been staff
cleaning up after little things like mailbombings. There have been about 8
incidents.

Marcus and Steve will put the 1.7GB disk from ajax online.

Technical staff has been in maintenance mode. The system is less stable
than a month ago. Steve is rebooting every two days, because the system
becomes unstable otherwise.

The staff will try the newer SCSI card again. They weren't able to boot
from it when they tried before.



VII. Verification Policy (steve)

Mailbombing incidents interfered. Steve will enter the policy online.



VIII. Adding nephi to staff.

Motion(remmers/popcorn) : 
To confirm the staff's recommendation of Michael O'Leary <nephi> to the 
staff mailing list and staff conference.

The motion passed 5-0-0 (scg and srw were absent)



IX. Landlord Report (popcorn)

The landlord applied for a use variance for Grex. The hearing will be June 27.

Nick has been giving leads on other locations in case we have to move.

The Electrician gave us basically good marks. We have to make minor changes.
The electrician thinks it will pass inspection if we do this. Power strips may
be a problem. (We're not sure.)

STeve talked to Nick today. Nick is more optimistic about zoning issues,
as there is other commercial use in the immediate vicinity.

STeve know a place that is available for $50/month. We are investigating it.



X. The Arbornet UPS offer (steve)

We're still investigating Arbornet's UPS. We have $200 in earmarked donations
to apply to the $250 that they're asking. Questions for us to resolve:
How big is it? What is its condition? It has been offered to us on loan to
see if we can use it. We should borrow it.



XI. JCC Sale on June 25 (remmers)

We discussed the JCC's rejection clause and decided whether to apply for a
table anyway.

Motion: (srw/danr) Authorize $30 to rent a table at the June 25 JCC sale.
Passed 5-0-1 (scg absent, popcorn abstained)



XII. New Business.

General concern was expressed about the treasurer's report. We're losing
people. A membership drive was suggested. No action taken.

The Remmerses requested being removed from the NIC record. Marc unangst
will update the NIC record.


XIII. Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned before 9PM.

--

Respectfully submitted,

Steve Weiss, Secretary (with help from John Remmers)

response 2 of 25:

May 28 18:56 UTC 1995

The NIC is the Network Information Center.  Every domain and IP
network connected to the Internet is registered in the InterNIC
(Internet NIC) WHOIS database.  Some of the information is
technical information needed for the proper functioning of
the Internet (such as the top-level DNS servers for a domain),
and some of the information is useful to humans (such as
names, addresses, and phone numbers of the contact people for
a domain).  If you're a member, you can see Grex's WHOIS
record by typing "whois -h rs.internic.net cyberspace.org".
(If you're doing this from the BBS or Menu shell, you'll have
to prefix it with a "!".  Membership is required because that
command queries the InterNIC WHOIS database over the Internet.)

response 4 of 25:

May 29 10:12 UTC 1995

Thanks for seeing to the Marc.  I'll keep checking to make sure
your mail sees some action.

response 6 of 25:

May 29 15:18 UTC 1995

I'm glad to hear it will be the 22nd.  I'll be in town then, and won't on
the 27th.

response 8 of 25:

May 30 00:07 UTC 1995

Which was a consequence of John's sometimes defectively legible
handwriting, most likely.

response 10 of 25:

Jun 3 03:26 UTC 1995

The application for a space at the JCC sale includes language to
the effect that the JCC can deny access to any vendor they
deem objectionable.  It also specificall states that vendors
selling "adult" merchandise (X-rated CD-ROM's, etc.) are not welcome.
I think John can probably enter the full text of the clause...

response 12 of 25:

Jun 4 01:13 UTC 1995

In other words, they want to have the right to chase away people selling
"Hitler didn't burn enough Jews" bumper stickers if they so chose.  If
I was them, I'd put in a clause reserving that right too, though I'd likely
not exercise it.  I don't see why that would concern us.

response 14 of 25:

Jun 21 10:05 UTC 1995

Grex's NIC address was changed.  Thanks, Marc.

response 16 of 25:

Jul 14 20:40 UTC 1995

NIC = Network Information Center (at least in this context; it can
also mean Network Interface Card).  The InterNIC (Internet NIC)
maintains a database of all Internet domains, along with contact
information.  The InterNIC record for Grex's domain, cyberspace.org,
still listed the Remmers' home address as Grex's address, and
listed me as the administrative contact for the domain.  Since this
was resulting in the Remmers' receipt of unwanted mail, we decided
at a board meeting 2 (?) months ago to change Grex's registered
street address to be the Dungeon address.  I sent the mail to the
proper people at the NIC, and the change was made.

If you are a member, you can view Grex's NIC record by typing
"whois -h rs.internic.net cyberspace.org".

response 18 of 25:

Jul 16 08:51 UTC 1995

Boy, Marc!  You must have used TNT to explode that TLA!  

Thanks!

response 20 of 25:

Aug 22 06:27 UTC 1995

Did anyone else experience deja vu when reading #16?  It was almost
word-for-word #2.  With such a short item, one would think that it would
not be too much trouble to read earlier responses...  *sigh*

response 22 of 25:

Aug 22 11:49 UTC 1995

<poke poke poke poke poke>

response 24 of 25:

Aug 29 06:38 UTC 1995

Some people just have the *worst* memories!