Grex Oldcoop Conference

Item 270: Minutes of the Grex Board of Directors Meeting of May 24, 2005

Entered by dpc on Fri May 27 15:49:26 2005:

Attending Board Members:  slynne, mary, dpc, polygon, gelinas

Non-Attending Board Members:  bhoward, vanloons

Attending Non-Board Members:  remmers, aruba

The May 24, 2005 meeting of the Grex Board of Directors was called to 
order by President slynne at 8:10 p.m. at the home of John an Mary 
Remmers, 19 Westbury Ct., Ann Arbor.

Slynne expressed her thanks to the staff for fixing Grex again.

Treasurer's Report:
Assistant Treasurer aruba said he was a little behind.  So far in May, 
we have taken in $102, and our bills will total the usual $150.  We 
bought a new disk from Leeron Kopelman for $290.  It is a 36 gig disk, 
double the capacity of the old one.  The disks have been exchanged.

Aruba proposed that the Board adopt a bank resolution using the Bank 
of Ann Arbor's form, with gelinas, aruba, janc, and slynne as signers, 
with one signature required.  Dpc moved its adoption, mary seconded, 
and the resolution was adopted unanimously.  The terms of this 
resolution are intended to apply to TCF bank as well.  

Dpc gave the Board a copy of an e-mail purporting to be from PayPal 
saying there were problems with our account.  The Board decided that 
the e-mail was fake; that someone had been on a phishing expedition.

Staff Report:
Gelinas said the password file is still not in good shape.  He was 
unsure when newuser would be back on line.  He said that only STeve 
knew how to fix this problem.  There had been no word from STeve.  Some 
old users still cannot log in.  Newuser is scrambling the date it is 
putting in the log file.  Mary tried to reach STeve by phone, with no 
result.  Aruba got krj on the phone, and krj told him that STeve had 
intended to come to the Board meeting.

The Board noted that since newuser had been closed the problem people 
had settled down.  Slynne said that we should not worry about making 
any changes to the handling of newuser until newuser was back up.

Schedule Next Meeting:
The Board scheduled the next meeting for Tuesday, July 5, at 
Zingerman's because they have connectivity which will allow our 
non-local Board members to participate.

New Business:
With regard to the possible purchase of a Weasel, the Board decided to 
wait for staff consensus.  Gelinas said that we already have a remote 
reboot option.  If we call Provide.Net, their staff will reboot Grex 
from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.  Gelinas said he was not convinced a 
Weasel would get us more.  He said that if Provide.Net staff had 
attempted a reboot this last time, that might have saved us.  Fsck 
would have failed, and we would have gotten someone over there.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:46 p.m.
23 responses total.
#1 of 23 by mary on Fri May 27 17:09:28 2005:

Nice minutes.  Thanks, Dave.

#2 of 23 by scholar on Fri May 27 17:13:53 2005:

Please note that "the problem users settling down" (i.e., me entering fewer
AHAHAHAH responses) has absolutely nothing to do with newuser being shut down.

#3 of 23 by tod on Fri May 27 18:30:33 2005:

re #2
Your ego gets in the way of your eyesite.  What makes you think your BBS
entries are "trouble" compared to spammers and forkbombers?

#4 of 23 by naftee on Fri May 27 20:49:05 2005:

re 0  Who is the treasurer ?

#5 of 23 by scholar on Fri May 27 21:08:10 2005:

Re. 3:  Because that's why they were talking about closing down newuser!

#6 of 23 by tod on Fri May 27 21:42:28 2005:

re #5
Surely something more sinister is behind the closure of the very item that
keeps them within their non-profit charter?!

#7 of 23 by nharmon on Fri May 27 21:45:55 2005:

You have to open newuser in order to be non-profit?

#8 of 23 by tod on Fri May 27 22:33:55 2005:

Have you read the application?

#9 of 23 by nharmon on Sat May 28 03:42:30 2005:

Apparently not. Are you talking about the articles of incorporation?

#10 of 23 by keesan on Sat May 28 04:01:42 2005:

Until newuser is working, could those old users whose password files got
messed up be given new accounts manually by staff members?

#11 of 23 by md on Sat May 28 17:14:53 2005:

I would be happy to let any excluded users or newusers use my account 
to enter responses, as long as they made sure to enter responses under 
their own names, i.e., "#10 of 10 by [newuser's name] (md)."  (Not so 
happy, though, if it meant I couldn't log on whenever I wanted to. 
Maybe you could pick an existing unused account and post the password 
for it?)

#12 of 23 by scholar on Sat May 28 20:34:00 2005:

mfp's password is MyDearPassword.

#13 of 23 by md on Sat May 28 20:41:40 2005:

Hey it is! Thanks, [gentleman and a] scholar!

#14 of 23 by naftee on Sat May 28 21:39:28 2005:

Thanks, md!

#15 of 23 by scholar on Sat May 28 21:40:43 2005:

Thanks, naftee!

#16 of 23 by keesan on Sat May 28 22:40:44 2005:

Md, do you also want to let people use your account for mail?  
Are there a lot of unused accounts around that could temporarily be assigned
to old users whose accounts got messed up, and to potential new users,
including our neighbor without an ISP who would like to learn to do email
here?

#17 of 23 by md on Sat May 28 22:56:40 2005:

Hadn't thought about that. I think you could use one account for many 
people's mail, but it would have to be managed carefully. I'm not sure 
it could be done.

#18 of 23 by scholar on Sun May 29 01:14:37 2005:

Anyone's more than welcome to try with the mfp account.

#19 of 23 by naftee on Sun May 29 04:30:11 2005:

Can I try the dcat account ?

Wait, I already have :(

#20 of 23 by scholar on Sun May 29 04:38:59 2005:

I forget the password.

#21 of 23 by naftee on Sun May 29 16:27:34 2005:

#15 of 17: by Scholar:  A User (scholar) on Wed, Mar 16, 2005 (12:53):
 DON"T WORRY DUDE YOU CAN STILL HAVE IT NO NEED TO GET ALL EXCITED

 THE PASSWORD IS HepCat


There's the password !

#22 of 23 by scholar on Sun May 29 17:30:08 2005:

whoa!, okay!

#23 of 23 by jesuit on Wed May 17 02:15:32 2006:

TROGG IS DAVID BLAINE

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