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PREAMBLE
    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 Committee meeting 
7:15PM at the medium tech conference room at Q101.

ATTENDANCE

La Monte Yarroll, chair
Greg Gulik
Doug Blair
Gerry Swetsky
Russell Rezaian
Brian Vargyas
Mike Bierne
Dave Ihnat (ignatz@homebru.chi.il.us)
Ben Liberman (ben@crenelle.com)

OLD BUSINESS

*Homebru problems
	Dave Ihnat will specify in detail what's wrong with the automa-
	tically generated files for homebru.  La Monte Yarroll will review 
	these and fix anything that needs it.

*BSMTP
	Greg Gulik will set up a BSMTP connection between nclout and gagme.
	Greg and Dave will set up a BSMTP connection between nclout and 
	homebru.

*Aliases
	Mike Beirne will send a list of aliases and user addresses for 
	nclout to Dave, who will install pointers to them on homebru.
	
*Mis-use of clout
	Doug Blair will post his comments about ftpmail and clout to 
	chi.mail and to the clout-info list.

*Administrative problems at clout
	La Monte will modify the L.sys file generation to include a 
	time-to-call field and will add a field to indicate whether or 
	not a neighboring site is terminal.

*Guidelines for Sysadmins
	Bob Schottland still to send an edited version of the sysadmin 
	guidelines to Brian Vargyas for a final draft.

*Technical at clout
	Russell Rezaian is continuing to work on getting a mail server 
	running on nclout.

NEW BUSINESS

*Technical at clout
	Bob and La Monte will install a 200 Meg disk on nclout for dev-
	elopment space.

*Technical at clout
	Greg will check the MX and forwarding status for the following 
	domains:
		balr.com, wheaton.edu, os.com, rpslmc.edu, idm.com, 
		scum.com, ucpg.uchicacgo.edu.  
	These are all special cases in gargoyle's sendmail.cf, which 
	they would like to drop.  Clout.chi.il.us should be the primary 
	MX forwarder for each of these.
	
*Pathalias
	Doug Blair has generated and installed a full uucp map for nclout.  
	La Monte will turn off smart-hosting to gargoyle.  There are a 
	few messages still bouncing, mostly to overseas sites.

*Assignments
	The April Postmaster Of The Month is Mike Beirne.  Error Checker 
	is Russell Rezaian.  
	May Postmaster is Greg Gulik, Error Checker is Mike Bierne.

*Future meeting locations
	The 4 May meeting will be either at Commodore in Schaumburg or 
	at the home of Brian Vargyas in Lisle.
	The 1 June meeting will be at Motorola in Schaumburg.  Greg 
	Gulik will be our host.	

AFTERWORD

The Clout Project would like to thank the following organizations for their
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)
	Kells Inovations Inc. (Disk drive)
	BALR Inc. (High speed modem)
	Doug Blair and Q101 (WMAQ Radio) for meeting space, pizza, tour
	and other hospitality.