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		<title>Tristan Miller: Created page with &quot;Present: TM, JE, RL  * Publicity ** TM: Our Reddit AMA seems to have resulted in a spike in views (ca. 90) and engagements to our Facebook page posts  ** JE: Our Reddit AMA wa...&quot;</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Created page with &amp;quot;Present: TM, JE, RL  * Publicity ** TM: Our Reddit AMA seems to have resulted in a spike in views (ca. 90) and engagements to our Facebook page posts  ** JE: Our Reddit AMA wa...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;Present: TM, JE, RL&lt;br /&gt;
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* Publicity&lt;br /&gt;
** TM: Our Reddit AMA seems to have resulted in a spike in views (ca. 90) and engagements to our Facebook page posts &lt;br /&gt;
** JE: Our Reddit AMA was a success, considering Usenet is a niche topic that few people nowadays have heard of outside of a means for piracy. The AMA currently has 225 upvotes with 89% of votes upvoted and 84 total comments.&lt;br /&gt;
** JE: We need a statement about what to put into the Open Collective newsletter. We can contact OC directly through their slack. Alanna Irving can help with the newsletter.&lt;br /&gt;
*** TM to review old newsletters and draft a submission&lt;br /&gt;
* Infrastructure&lt;br /&gt;
** TM: Asked Alexis Rosen of Panix about his offer of help and got a reply indicating that he could provide a test account, and mentioning that our continued use of procmail and ispell would likely prove to be headaches for him and for us, respectively.&lt;br /&gt;
*** TM to send a note of thanks and indicate that we will get back to him on the test account if/when we need it&lt;br /&gt;
* Administration&lt;br /&gt;
** The meeting noted articles from Adam Kerman on [[news.groups]] ({{article|s7k3tl$v6c$1@dont-email.me}}, {{article|s92qct$68t$1@dont-email.me}}) with some insightful comments and suggestions on terminology and new group proposal procedures (particularly as they relate to &amp;quot;boilerplate&amp;quot; text and moderator succession plans).&lt;br /&gt;
** E-mail from Paul Schleck re Group Mentors: TM to reply regarding membership&lt;br /&gt;
** E-mail from Paul Schleck re common arguments against moderated newsgroups: TM to reply&lt;br /&gt;
* Miscellaneous&lt;br /&gt;
** JE: Emailed Ronda Hauben with a fuller introduction into what we are doing and asked her if she would be interested in speaking with us about her work on Netizens.&lt;br /&gt;
** JE raised the suggestion of holding a one-day conference on Usenet and it was agreed that he would contact prospective speakers/attendees to gauge interest in the idea&lt;br /&gt;
** TM gave advance apologies for the 25 June and 2 July meetings&lt;br /&gt;
** JE gave advance apologies for the 2 and 9 July meetings&lt;br /&gt;
** It was agreed to cancel the 25 June and 2 July meetings; and for TM and RL to hold the 9 July meeting only if there are sufficient (or sufficiently urgent) agenda items to discuss&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Meeting minutes for 2021]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Tristan Miller</name></author>
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