Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 05/27/91


	The meeting was called to order at Mon May 27 19:30:08 EDT 1991
 by jcbourne.
	
	In attendance were 
		Voting members: jcbourne tanis kkkken bjaspan warlord
marc mhpower dkk | amgreene debbo
		Associate members: jcb srz dcctdw | leira
		Non-voting members: 
		Prospectives: mcmullan@eddie tiuzzol ckclark sethg |
padrelou fplozano slippery mosquito
		Guests: 

	Treasurer's Report:  not here.  Gone for the summer, but he's
irreplacable. :-)

	Chairman's Report:  She says she's not here.

New prospectives Brian Kelly (padrelou) and Floyd Lozano (fplozano)
introduced themselves.  fplozano said he heard about SIPB from ad in
GQ.  We had intouductions all around.

	Office Report:  less pitly than usual.  What to do about
getting recycled paper picked up?  Ask janitor when he's here or ask
Phys Plant.

DKK's Next is in the SIPB office.  Feel free to play with it until he
takes it home.

	MIT Computing Report:  Themis /u1 & /u2 are down.  600-1000
users are affected.

	Computer Services: mcmullan says the irc server is running on
charon (nothing points to it yet but garfield connects).  Mail will be
sent announcing the necessary changes to config files between now and
when garfield goes away.

alumni machine: what about site licenses?  should alumni be allowed to
use this software?  Probably should be minimal accounts to prevent
this problem.  Alumni office thinks alumni access to internet would
help keep contact with alumni, but they're not interested in footing
the bill for the machine.  dkk volunteered himself, mhpower and
amgreene to discuss this in more detail.  subjects and verbs in
sentences?  not in these minutes.

marc implemented a method of further controlling access to SIPB
machines for the non-prospectives who use the machines a lot.  It has
options for a more direct/virulent message and to block out a user.
This is also useful for remote access to portnoy, hodge and podge.  In
these cases, the person at the machine has ultimate control over
remote use.  The problem may decrease now that the term is over.

Intel is lending us a computer with 16 Meg RAM and 760 Meg disk space.
It's in the mail.  It should be here Tuesday or Wednesday.  We'll have
use of the loaner to start hacking on while the proposal is being
considered.  After the proposal goes through (assuming it does), they
might give us ownership of it, send a replacement, or whatever.

web wrote xthesaurus.  It's installed.  It currently has about 5000 words.

	Ronald-Ann Backup Report:  Down to the last three volumes.
Will be done by end of meeting.

	Publications Report:  Low on Inessential AFS.  dkk volunteers
to make copies.

	R/O Report:  Still need tour volunteers.  Still need letter
for mailing.  Deadline hasn't been finalized for letter, but it should
be dealt with in the next few weeks.

	IAP Retort:  May is IAP planning planning planning planning
planning planning month.

	CokeComm Report:  We have coke.  Empties should be redeemed
(for a free soda/juice) again.  Non-deposit cans & bottles should be
gotten rid of.  (Will someone please do this?)

	Other:  ckclark came in at 11:00am Saturday.  No one was here,
but the office was open.  (flame on) Whomever did this should be
sacked.  (flame off)

	Other Other:  dcctdw has finally succumbed to the Forces of
Perl.  (He ran out of Postscript holy water...)

leira:  "me too"

jcb: x,dlkt ;fb (qwerty sux).

ispell has bogus omissions and bogus contents.



	The meeting was adjourned at Mon May 27 20:08:26 EDT 1991.


	Minutes taken and submitted by jcb.