Minutes of Genesee Free-Net Board of
Directors Meeting
March
22, 2007
Flint Area
Convention and Visitors Bureau
316 Water Street
PRESENT:
Dennis
Cavanaugh, Chair
Larry Porn, Vice Chair
Solomon Johnson,
Secretary
Janet Craig, Board
Chad Cramer, Website
Scott Gifford,
Board
Charles Wright, Board
ABSENT:
Beverly Duval, Board
Les
LeMieux, Board
Kenny Thomas, Systems
Call to order at 5:18pm. Chair
Dennis Cavanaugh presiding.
Vice Chair Larry Porn estimated that only 40%
to 45% of OTC provided bandwith is being used by GFN. He suggested that the
Merit dial-in numbers be removed from the Web site and replaced with the Telnet
World Wide dial-in numbers. GFN Webmaster Chad Cramer will make the change.
Larry presented for comment a sample notice to be broadcast periodically to
members about dial-in number changes.
Webmaster Chad Cramer is surveying
content management software that might be used by members to develop personal
Web pages. He and other System Committee members will meet with Tall Pine
Council BSA to discuss content management on their Web site.
Chair Dennis
Cavanaugh requested approval to use $50 to buy advertisement space for GFN in
the May 5thprogram book of the Norton Male Chorus. Vice Chair Larry
Porn moved that the expenditure be approved and Secretary Solomon Johnson
supported the motion. The motion carried unanimously.
The problem of sending e-mail through
Telnet World Wide appears to have been resolved. Scott Gifford and Larry Porn
will investigate the problem of sending e-mail through DSL and broadband
connections by GFN members responding to messages in their inbox. Chad Cramer
related his experience with SMTP Port 25 blocking initiated by telephone
companies. Chad will send information on SMTP Port 25 Opt Out procedure to
Larry.
There was discussion of the Spam problem and the new procedures
being used by spammers to circumvent filtering. Dennis Cavanaugh will check with
Kenny Thomas on the status of the spam filter he is developing and will discuss
with Kenny development of instructions on how members may use the ratings placed
by the Spam Assassin program in e-mail headers to
develop their own spam filters.
Office Committee chair Larry Porn
reported that the office is ~Schugging~T along and working to resolve a few filing
problems.
Mentioned was the need to update some obsolete
items on the Web site. Discussed was finding someone to survey the site
and report links no longer working (404 link error.) Chad reported that expired
links are removed automatically.
Reminded was the need to test the
ability to send mail to other than Free-Net addresses through Telnet World
Wide.
Adjournment:
6:23pm.
Next Board Meeting.
Thursday, April
26, 2007, 5:15pm at the Flint Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, 316 Water
Street.
Respectfully Submitted,
Solomon T Johnson,
Secretary
