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Grex > Coop13 > #270: Minutes of the Grex Board of Directors Meeting of May 24, 2005 | |
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dpc
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Minutes of the Grex Board of Directors Meeting of May 24, 2005
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May 27 15:49 UTC 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.
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mary
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response 1 of 23:
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May 27 17:09 UTC 2005 |
Nice minutes. Thanks, Dave.
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scholar
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response 2 of 23:
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May 27 17:13 UTC 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.
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tod
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response 3 of 23:
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May 27 18:30 UTC 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?
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naftee
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response 4 of 23:
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May 27 20:49 UTC 2005 |
re 0 Who is the treasurer ?
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scholar
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response 5 of 23:
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May 27 21:08 UTC 2005 |
Re. 3: Because that's why they were talking about closing down newuser!
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tod
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response 6 of 23:
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May 27 21:42 UTC 2005 |
re #5
Surely something more sinister is behind the closure of the very item that
keeps them within their non-profit charter?!
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nharmon
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response 7 of 23:
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May 27 21:45 UTC 2005 |
You have to open newuser in order to be non-profit?
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tod
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response 8 of 23:
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May 27 22:33 UTC 2005 |
Have you read the application?
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nharmon
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response 9 of 23:
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May 28 03:42 UTC 2005 |
Apparently not. Are you talking about the articles of incorporation?
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keesan
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response 10 of 23:
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May 28 04:01 UTC 2005 |
Until newuser is working, could those old users whose password files got
messed up be given new accounts manually by staff members?
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md
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response 11 of 23:
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May 28 17:14 UTC 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?)
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scholar
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response 12 of 23:
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May 28 20:34 UTC 2005 |
mfp's password is MyDearPassword.
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md
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response 13 of 23:
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May 28 20:41 UTC 2005 |
Hey it is! Thanks, [gentleman and a] scholar!
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naftee
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response 14 of 23:
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May 28 21:39 UTC 2005 |
Thanks, md!
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scholar
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response 15 of 23:
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May 28 21:40 UTC 2005 |
Thanks, naftee!
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keesan
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response 16 of 23:
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May 28 22:40 UTC 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?
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md
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response 17 of 23:
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May 28 22:56 UTC 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.
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scholar
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response 18 of 23:
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May 29 01:14 UTC 2005 |
Anyone's more than welcome to try with the mfp account.
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naftee
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response 19 of 23:
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May 29 04:30 UTC 2005 |
Can I try the dcat account ?
Wait, I already have :(
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scholar
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response 20 of 23:
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May 29 04:38 UTC 2005 |
I forget the password.
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naftee
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response 21 of 23:
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May 29 16:27 UTC 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 !
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scholar
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response 22 of 23:
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May 29 17:30 UTC 2005 |
whoa!, okay!
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jesuit
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response 23 of 23:
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May 17 02:15 UTC 2006 |
TROGG IS DAVID BLAINE
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