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Preamble
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    The Clout Project of /usr/group/chicago provides email services to
    the Chicago computer community.  It is currently a two node system.
    One (nclout aka clout.chi.il.us) resides at the University of Chicago,
    Department of Computer Science.  The other (homebru) is in the home of
    Dave Ihnat.  Eventually we hope to have a clout node as a nearby phone
    call for everybody in the Chicago area.
    
    The Clout System Administrators' Committee is responsible for
    maintaining and upgrading the Clout distributed computer system.
    The Committee meets on the first Monday of every month, at a
    variety of locations.  Meetings are open to all interested parties,
    but we do request that you notify the host if you plan to attend.

    If you have any questions or problems related to the Clout Project,
    send email to postmaster@clout.chi.il.us.  If it is not possible
    to send email, or if there is a matter of urgency, you may contact
    the Sysadmin of the Month.
    
Minutes of the Clout Project System Administrators meeting held at the 
home of Brian Vargyas in Lisle on 5 October, 1992.

ATTENDANCE
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	Shannon Noe <noe@balr.com>
	Gerry Swetsky <lisbon@vpnet.chi.il.us>
	Mike Beirne <beirne@limerick.chi.il.us>
	Brian Vargyas <brianv@amiserv.chi.il.us>
	Brian Clark <bclark@jupiter.chi.il.us>
	Russell Rezaian <rrezaian@zed.chi.il.us>

On the agenda - Formerly Old Business:
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* An ftpserver on clout for /usr/group/chicago members.
	Tabled till next month (still entirely in theoretical stages).

* Fullname database on clout.
	Tabled.  Also a long term project.

* Running the newest version of smail in hopes it corrects minor problems.
	We have decided to tentatively install the new version of smail in
	the hopes that it does consistantly log incoming messages, and as
	part of the upgrade switch over to running smail in immediate mode.

* Physical access.
	Randy Suess and Dave Ihnat have physical access.  Randy is the
	news sig admin, and thus needs access, Dave is the homebru admin,
	and is hard to reach.  Russell will talk to Tom Barron about the
	possibility of obtaining a third key.

* Clout listserver.
	The listserver is compiled, and awaits only stuff to be made
	available for archive service.

* Clout introduction document.
	Mike has prepared an intro document to the clout project from the
	documents submitted, and presented it for approval, editing and
	removal of typos.  This will probably be the ideal candidate for
	the first thing to be made available through an automated mail
	based archive server.

* New software.
	The new versions of smail and elm are both currently sitting in
	/usr/local/src for anyone who wants them to download them.  Smail
	has been built, but not installed, as of October 8th.  Elm 2.4 
	has yet to be built on clout.

* Inventory.
	As soon as Russell has physical access, he and Greg will go down
	and make a physical inventory of the hardware currently in use by
	the clout project.

* The old clout.
	According to Randy Suess the former clout machine, slated to be
	the clout development machine has been moved partially out of the
	room.  When Russell gets hold of Tom Barron he will check to make
	sure that we can keep it.

* Clout drive.
	We haven't heard anything about the clout drive.  There is
	supposed to be annother drive somewhere that we can use.  No
	one seems to know quite where though.  We also should ask Bob
	Schotland about the one he was going to let us use that turned
	out to be dead.

* Dead sites.
	Several sites have not called nclout in quite some time.  Mike has
	contacted many of them.  In most cases the admins are still
	planning to use the link, and not much mail is spooled waiting.
	In the case of Trinity College over 400 jobs (as of Tuesday night)
	were spooled, and the new admin at Trinity knows nothing about UUCP
	yet.  The Trinity admin is now aware of the problem and is working
	on it.

* Next meeting location.
	The next meeting has been tentatively planned for the 15th on 
	November at 7 PM at Greg Gulik's house.  This is dependant on both 
	Greg being able to host things, and on Doug Blair being able to 
	make it.


AFTERWORD
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The Clout Project would like to thank the following organizations and
individuals for their generous help, loans and donations:

	The University of Chicago, Dept. of Computer Science
		(CPU system, machine room space, phone lines,
		 an Internet drop, and much general support)
	Tellabs (CPU, High speed modem)
	BALR Inc. (High speed modem)
	Brian Vargyas (Meeting space, pizza and hospitality)
	Chinet (Hardware donation for machine)

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