Committee meeting - Monday, 25th March, 1996

Present: [JEB] (James Bromberger), David Luyer, Duncan Sargeant,
[NTU] (Nick Bannon), [SD:] (Sophie Divliaev), Barnes (Barnaby Brown),
[AJW] (Andrew Williams), [SAF] (Simon Fryer), Kym Yeap, Mikolaj Habryn,
David Manchester, [MTL] (Mark Tearle).

Meeting opened: 1:23pm

President's ([JEB]) report: Bing.

Beige: Printer is being attached.

Mackerel: Happy. Can probably handle up to SunOS 4.1.4. It is a Sun
III/280 with a 3 connector VME bus. We will order an 8MB memory board
from "Sun-Ripened Kernels".

Marlin: Need to insert some more memory into it. [AJW] found its
motherboard manual.

Moray: Happy, but "spare" memory should go to it.

Starfish: Reasonable.

Manta: We should buy a TK50 tape. [SAF] says that they are $47.50 from
Winthrop Tech. [MTL] will investigate prices elsewhere.

General Business:
Disc space: [MTL] tells us we have a total of 4.1Gb, of which 3.5Gb is
used. Some of this is "soft" usage - if we want we could free up large
amounts at short notice.

Penguin (Paul Wagland): Our localtalk cable is broken somewhere between
us and the GCL. To be fixed.

Club web sites are [COM]'s (Peter Cooper) responsibility.

Will look into fixing the Guild's DAT drive.

The UCC is willing to allow clubs web sites on its machines in theory,
but disclaims all responsibility if there's a problem.

The text of a request for an 8 bit subnet should be written out, and
given to Penguin so that he can forward it to Toivo.

Backups: [AJW] is able to borrow a 2/4 Gb DAT drive for a weekend. Might
[COM] have a head cleaner cassette?

SCSI: [SAF] says that we need a terminator for an "old" Sun SCSI
interface - DB15?

Coke/Door: Duncan Sargeant is to be added into these groups.

Ritual Sacrifice: Yakk (Ian McKellar): Has been talked to by wheel about
the incident with RS. Another "offence" -> account locked indefinitely.

We are currently site banned, the "last straw" apparently being due to
Barnes. This should hopefully be fixed soon.

The Guild Computer Lounge staff aren't clear about the ownership of the
machine its running on.

Ritual should perhaps form its own separate club.

"Real name" on UCC machines: There has been somewhat of a commotion
about this, recently. The consensus of Committee and Wheel seems to be
that "real name" GECOS files in the password files should, in general,
include a real surname. Wheel can grant exceptions on a case-by-case
basis.

The general policy will be to not explicitly disallow changing of it
on a per-application basis (ie setting one's IRCNAME, or sending email,
etc), though people are reminded that the login forms prohibit abusive
network usage, for example.

Some nostalgia for the past has been mentioned - the UCC used to be
quite definitely on the "side" of its members, and concerned about
getting the best deal it could from the University. That's not so
evident now - we try to make the minimum of waves with the Guild and
University, as we are dependent on them for our room and link.

Account locking: This is to be a last resort, or for emergency use.
Wheel members must not lock accounts when emailing or talking to the
account holder would suffice.

Mailing lists: We should run our own listserver, separate from the
Guild's one. Mikolaj is willing to administer a majordomo list. UCC
members will be free to set up their own lists, though if they generate
significant charged network traffic, they will have to be responsible
for paying for it...

Moderation of UCC-Announce should be changed. A UCC moderation account
on gulag (or a UCC machine) would be very useful - several people can
have access to it, and thus be able to approve messages at a wider
variety of hours.

UCC mailing list traffic is currently split into three levels, which is
about right, we think. UCC-Announce, which is low volume, moderated,
for general announcements to all current members and any interested
parties. UCC, for general traffic to everyone who can handle the highly
variable signal-to-noise ratio. Specific aliases, like committee, wheel,
cokegroup, doorgroup, which get (highly bursty) traffic as required.

Meeting closed: 2:06pm