Re: AVCNet, tonight

[Robert Kleckner <rkleckne@abacus.bates.edu>]

Got that. See you next week.

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Rick Speer wrote:

> 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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