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Grex System Announcements Item
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Jun 22 00:17 UTC 1999 |
This item is for system announcements (new computer equipment on Grex,
system upgrades, Grex meetings, etc.). Personal announcements should go
back in item 2; Grex system *problems* belong in the next item (#4).
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kaplan
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response 1 of 80:
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Jun 24 03:13 UTC 1999 |
Agora 3 linked as Helpers 81.
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remmers
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response 2 of 80:
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Jun 24 12:20 UTC 1999 |
The suit against Michigan Public Act 33 has been filed in Federal court
by the ACLU, with Grex as the lead plaintiff. You can read about the
progress of the suit in Coop item 104 (item:coop,104).
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remmers
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response 3 of 80:
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Jun 24 12:25 UTC 1999 |
The next Grex Board of Directors meeting is Monday, June 28 at 7:00 p.m.
in the Michigan Union Food Court. See item 107 in the Coop conference
(item:coop,107) for the agenda.
Note the change in location. Our regular meeting place was not available
this month.
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steve
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response 4 of 80:
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Jul 2 23:43 UTC 1999 |
Grex took longer to reboot than normal Friday night, due to a
problem with a disk. We have some bad sectors on /a, which I don't
think present an immediate problem. We're going to have to deal with
this in the near term however, so more downtime will result. More
once we know more about it all.
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katie
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response 5 of 80:
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Jul 5 06:17 UTC 1999 |
"No space left on device...file system is full."
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remmers
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response 6 of 80:
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Jul 23 19:13 UTC 1999 |
The Grex Board of Directors will meet this Monday, July 26, 7 p.m.
upstairs at Zingerman's Next Door, 422 Detroit Street, Ann Arbor. The
public is invited. See Item 112 in the Coop conference (item:coop,112)
for the agenda.
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jep
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response 7 of 80:
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Jul 28 16:33 UTC 1999 |
Grex may be shutting down as of Sunday, unless the lawsuit mentioned in
#2 results in a quick injunction. From the minutes of Monday's Board
meeting:
AGENDA ITEM 6: ACLU Suit
- A hearing was held in which the ACLU asked for a temporary
injunction.
If granted this would prevent Michigan's new Internet Censorship Act
(Michigan Public Act 33 of 1999) from going into effect on the
scheduled
date of August 1, 1999. Jan Wolter was called as a witness. John
Remmers, Steve Gibbard, Mark Conger, and STeve Andre attended. It
appears to have gone extremely well, and everyone is confident that
the injunction will be granted. The ruling will be announced before
August 1.
- There still needs to be a trial to determine the constitutionality
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the law. This is likely to happen 6 to 9 months from now.
- Although we think it almost a certainty that the injunction will
be granted, the board felt it would be prudent to have a plan of
action in place in case it was not. Figuring out whether Grex can
continue to operate in any way under this law is going to be
extremely
difficult and will probably require getting legal advice on a number
of points. We don't want to go to the trouble of formulating this
plan unless we need it. Mary Remmers proposed that if this law
comes into force, Grex should temporarily shut down while a policy
is worked out. This lead to the following motion by Jan Wolter:
In the event that Michigan Public Act 33 of 1999 goes into
effect,
all public access to Grex shall be suspended, with the exception
of an informational web page, pending the formulation of new
policies.
Seconded by Dan Gryniewicz.
Passed 7-0-0.
Again, we do not think there is any large chance of this happening,
and
we think that it may be possible to bring at least a few services
(like Email) back on line pretty soon.
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