File space increase, volunteer recognition

[Rich Littleton]

I was going to respond to the message (below) from Rod, but then realized
it was just an excercise in "can't-do-nuthin-no-way-no-how" and let it go.

Rich

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On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Rod Clark wrote:

> > Proposal:
> > Give all ACTIVE volunteers 10 megabytes of space.
> 
> Rich, 
> 
>    The list of active volunteers is constantly shifting. There
> are probably several hundred people who have been active
> volunteers at some time, but aren't now. If this were to be a
> perk for active volunteers, then the accounts would revert to
> regular acounts as people dropped off the active list that the
> system would check to allow increased filespace. For anyone with
> > 5 Mb of files, the FreePort system would then disable their
> mail access as being over the then lowered limit. It would take
> sysadm monitoring and followup account-fixing to deal with some
> of these, and probably multiple followups for quite a few of
> them. System administration is a scarce resource and is
> currently backlogged from now well into next year. Creating a
> new kind of exception processing that would cause both sysadms
> and volunteers administrative headaches might not be an ideal
> situation.
> 
> > 2.  Do a dinner -- paid for my SCNA -- for all vols and a guest at the
> >     fare share restaurant, twice yearly.
> 
>    The Services Committee has had an annual dinner in December
> at Common Meals for several years, which has been well attended.
> So far, we've paid for our own meals there. It's probably in the
> planning stages again for this year. 
> 
>    There was a good attendance at this fall's potluck picnic at
> Woodland Park. 
> 
> > 2.  At least do a certificate of recognition for vols who have done
> >     something extraordinary.  (I will submit a name to the board soon of a
> >     volunteer SCNA should recognize.) 
> 
>    I expect that the 1999 letters of recognition will be out by
> the end of the year.
> 
> > But, DO something! > 
> 
> Rod Clark
> 
> 

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