Re: AVCNet, tonight

[Rick Speer <rspeer@lplonline.org>]

I just talked with Rob Spellman and his entire family is down with the flu
and he is unable to make it tonight.  With Bruce, Rob, and Jim unavailable, I
would like to declare the meeting canceled and we can look forward to meeting
on Monday, February 26 at Bates.
Rick Speer

jhart@mail.lewiston.lib.me.us wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm down with the flu and won't make the meeting, tonight.  So, it will
> have to be moved to a different location unless Rob plans to attend.
>
> If you get a chance, and there are some folks present (I believe Bruce
> won't make it, either), here are a couple of agenda items:
>
>  - there was a problem with the listserve, discovered and reported by
> David S.  It affected only UBC, initially, starting on 1/12, but then
> affected all lists on or about 1/20.  I restarted both the listserve and
> mail servers on 1/21.  The problem appears to be corrected.  In the
> process, I turned FTP services on the listserve machine off as they are
> no longer needed.
>
>  - the Feedback letter I forwarded to the list; should we participate?
>
>  - buying a new iMac to run AVCNet on ($795 for a machine that's 50%
> faster), using the current machine as a backup or running both
> concurrently with either able to back up the other
>
>  - whether to move services off the Mac OS and onto the Linux machine
>     ? all will move easily except Usenet News; RumorMill on the Mac OS
> has a slick e-mail<->news gateway function which Rob has found hard to
> duplicate under Unix/Linux.  On the other hand, we can easily make
> listserve archives available on the Web, instead, and it's not clear that
> very many people use the News function, anyway.
>
>  - when/if to move the iMac back to the library (should have Rob's input
> on pros and cons; it's been so long since we decided to house AVCNet at
> the Library rather than at Bates, I don't remember the reasoning; any
> chance we have minutes from that meeting, I wonder?)
>
>  - contacting ELHS, LHS, Oak Hill HS and CMTC about Linux system
> administrators as a work-study/internship opportunity (and, can we afford
> to pay them something?)
>
> If Rob does attend and the meeting is held at Bates, maybe he can set it
> up so that I can participate in the "business" portion via speaker phone.
>  The number where I'm staying is 968-2777.
>
> Stay warm,
>
> Jim Hart
> "Working together we _can_ make a difference."

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