 | | Online Auction Rip-Offs On The Rise - Article
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With all the discusion of the current scams going on over on E-bay I thought that many of you might be interested in this article. Basically it all comes down to Buyer beware and to educate yourself before purchasing through an auction. Makes sense (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Has the world gone mad?!?
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(...) What area do you live in? If you're in the near South, maybe we can collaborate a humongoid effort to "moon-dust" the comapny sets off of the judges' minds. It is just a thought.... (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.us.tn.mem, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.tn)
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| | Re: Somebody help.
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I chickened out today. It was a good chance to. (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | $10 off at ToysRUs.com
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Thanks to dealnews.com for pointing this out... ToysRUs.com has a banner at the top of the home page: "Welcome to ToysRUs.com where you can find your favorite toys and games. You can start shopping now and we'll take $10 off your first order, or (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Forestmen's Castle
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(...) minutes? It's almost a lego chat room after all! DaveE (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Comprehensive meta-command list
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Paul Gyugyi: [ kind of announced the next LDLite version ] Cool. Jacob (who should try to get LDLite to run on Linux) ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Forestmen's Castle
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(...) Hmm. I don't recall anything out there in the Forestman's subtheme being bigger than 6066 (Camoflagued outpost). There's only two other 'fortresses' in the Forestman subtheme (IIRC): (2 URLs) it either of those? <Hmm, more digging...> Maybe (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Forestmen's Castle
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(...) Hmm... The pause guide lists 4 real forestmen's structures, two of which are the ones you already mentioned: 6066 Camoflaged Outpost 6054 Forestmen's Hideout 6071 Forestmen's Crossing 6077 Forestmen's River Fortress Otherwise, I don't know... (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Forestmen's Castle
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(...) Try set #6071 or 6054 I think the river fortress is the biggest forestman set!! Remember the river fortress is not the set with the river in the baseplate. Dan (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Hull Sections for trade
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I have a wide brown center hull section (think BSB, SES, or CC) I will trade for a narrow brown section (Imperial Flagship) or the narrow white section (Armada Flagship). ejones@bloomington.in.us (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: HB for science project?
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I forget the web page, but I did find a JAVA compiler for the HB online! It looks great! I havent had a chance to experiment with it yet, but it uses much less memory then IC and appears to be very powerful, might want to look for that. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Forestmen's Castle
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I remember seeing a large Forestmen's set once when I was young, but I cannot find it pictured or listed anywhere that I have looked. I am not referring to the Camouflage Outpost, or the River Fortress. This set was larger. If anyone has any (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Six Wide Hummer 4 door Wagon model
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(...) hummer (...) I, also, think that mine is pretty good :) The only thing I couldn't get to look the way I wanted was the hood, and of course there's the delema of LEGO not making a six wide Hummer grille :) I like yours, but I don't think the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Rock Raiders IS a Space theme
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(...) Yeah, that sure is a goofy bit, isn't it! The official TLG website isn't one to be trusted always (IMHO) with minutae like that, but to the best of my knowledge, they did get the Underground part right. Time will tell, of course. :-) (...) (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.space, lugnet.underground, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: another thought on "Bid Siphoning"
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(...) Uh, can you read? If so, then you'd see that he CAN'T go back and edit the SC listing, something he would gladly do. Your tone was a bit smart-alecky, seeming to imply, as your current message does, that Larry is something less than a (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: firmdl3 @ 41.13s
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(...) If you deactivate complements or headers in the ROM protocol, then the ROM does not transmit exactly what you might want it to. See the comments for init_serial in lib/rom.h of the Librcx distribution. If you use the default mode settings, or (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Last chance for MindFest registration
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Registration for the MindFest event at MIT will be closing today. This is your last chance to sign up! (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Re: Rock Raiders IS a Space theme
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(...) I would guess that "Present" is for all the things that aren't techincally Town... ResQ, Extreme Team, etc. James (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.space, lugnet.underground, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Modern Police Department
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Jeff Stembel <Dragonelf1@aol.com> wrote in message news:FJ3EK3.3pp@lugnet.com... (...) But (...) could (...) suggest (...) At least in Illinios, State Police have police jurisdiction everywhere. Here in Springfield, we have city, county, and state (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Rock Raiders IS a Space theme
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(...) I would submit that perhaps their chart is "broken", and they meant to have, or at least ought to have (under Lego System): Present - Town (Past) - Castle - Adventurers (Future) (aka Space/Sci-Fi) - Space - Underground - Aquazone This sort of (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.space, lugnet.underground, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Mindfest
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(...) Eric and all other travellers, I don't know if this has been officially announced yet, but the New England Lego User's Group (NELUG) is planning to hold an open meeting the evening of Saturday October 23rd at the MIT Media Lab after the end of (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Datsville tracked excavator/bulldozer
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(...) This is really cool! Good Job! Jeff, who wishes he had more chain link pieces... (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Modern Police Department
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(...) Well, actually, State police wouldn't have jurisdiction in Datsville. It could be in the suburbs or outside the city limits, though. :) Oh, and I'd suggest it be county police, not state police. Alternately, since all large cities have (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Pontoon Plane vs. Biwing Baron (Re: My favorite Adventurer sets)
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(...) Well, the P-38 Lightning from WWII was a twin engine single seat plane, so the concept isn't that far out there. Of course, that doesn't mean that the set isn't still undersized, but there is precedent. Adrian (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Rock Raiders IS a Space theme
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(...) *grin* See, we can solve that simply by calling all those things "space". (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.space, lugnet.underground)
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| | Re: Rock Raiders IS a Space theme
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(...) (URL) Raiders is a Theme within a System named Underground, just as Insectoids is a Theme within a System named Space, and Aquanauts is a Theme within a System named Aquazone. Underground, Space, and Aquazone are all Systems with a Product (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.space, lugnet.underground)
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| | 4x2ReVu: 6088 Robbers Retreat
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The robbers' retreat sits nestled in the heart of a lush valley at the base of a dormant volcano. Once a temple to the spirits of the sleeping mountain, the robber Yoshimoto has since turned the abandoned edifice into a hideout and storehouse of his (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: another thought on "Bid Siphoning"
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(...) Bid siphoning is when someone is running an auction, and someone else offers to sell the same item for less than the current high bid. By extension, bid siphoning can also include providing information on alternate sources for the item. Some (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Track names (was Re: To Tore Eriksson)
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(...) 4555? (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: any site of orange buckets?
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(...) I hope that Tarzhay sells these things again this year. I missed my opportunity to buy lots of these and stockpile the orange bricks. I want to get some of these, darnit. Adrian (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| | Re: CW/CCW, vertex sequence, co-planar, convex
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John VanZwieten wrote in message ... (...) Actually, I count three ideas. (...) messy. (...) when (...) the (...) to (...) only (...) have (...) in (...) CW (...) slightly (...) for (...) The third option, which I believe would be best, is similar (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New DK books on their way
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(...) I didn't notice that thread... I still maintain its orange. I have posted a pic at: (URL) they were not in stock at the DK shop :-( Huw (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | RE: firmdl3 @ 41.13s
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(...) Bug, what bug? Have I missed something? My Tcl based uploader broke when Scriptics released 8.2, and now it works again. Seems I wasn't handling the rcx_recv parameter in my equivalent functions... Anyways, could you elaborate on the bug a (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Proxy bidding mechanics questions...
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In situations where a challenger's bid does not beat the current proxy, set the new bid to the challenger's max. That reveals the least amount of information. And is easily, fairly described: "if a challenger's bid fails to overcome the current (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Standardized Inventory File Format?
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(...) I am not sure I understand your question completely. There certainly are XML-writers available. One is included in the new Java extension Project X available from Sun at (URL) You probably have to register, but that is free and pretty simple. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: CW/CCW, vertex sequence, co-planar, convex, (115kB)
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <37f8c86b.239282689@...et.com>... (...) But more often than not, when mirroring an element or subassembly, it's not the intent of the author to turn it inside out. Typical model builders shouldn't concern themselves (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [FS] - eBay - McDonald's Promo set, box only - 25 cents
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This really grates. I can understand people buying up a scarce resource, and offering it for resale at a higher price. That's supply and demand. But trying to scalp an easily-available item by hiding the source is information-hoarding. Blech. If the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Comprehensive meta-command list
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Paul Gyugyi wrote in message <37F8CE0C.13D582C9@g...yi.com>... (...) Cool! This could be very handy. I'll add it to the DAT format page I'm writing. -Gary (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Comprehensive meta-command list
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Lars C. Hassing wrote in message <939050465.592693@ns.cci.dk>... (...) True. But when manually examining a file, if you come across a 0 INVERT you wouldn't know whether this was the beginning or the end of the inverted references, without a bit of (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Maybe a way to hit inaccurate "hard to find" listers on eBay
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(...) well, if experience is any indication, he'll threaten to sue you for slander :) -dave (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Pontoon Plane vs. Biwing Baron (Re: My favorite Adventurer sets)
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(...) Remove the pilot from the PP. Does it look better without the pilot? To me, pantoon plane is seriously undersized. Two engines just for a single-seat plane? The PP is a single seater, only for the same reason that all the semi rigs in Town are (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Rock Raiders IS a Space theme
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LEGO system underground? I´ve never heard of that, only rock raiders. Aquazone is *not* space, but Rock Raiders are in my opinion. Hey, they have ships and helmets with visors! The thought of Aquazone taking place on another planet is pretty cool, (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.space, lugnet.underground)
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| | number and letter bricks (was: Re: When should the 2000 Catalogue Appear?)
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(...) Another interesting thing about the letter bricks is that there were different sets for different countries. The set available in Sweden in 1971 was different from that available in Germany. Does anyone know how many different letter sets for (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: firmdl3 @ 41.13s
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(...) I'll have to test it out in my office, which has difficult lighting. Errors in transmission can often break things in unexpected ways, leaving you in states that are hard to recover from, often resulting in the downloader aborting after giving (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: another thought on "Bid Siphoning"
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(...) Collector (...) fact, (...) You don't like my tone? Come on now, don't be so defensive. This whole McDonald's Drive-thru Soap Opera seems to have you rattled a bit. My point is: full disclosure of information should be FULL disclosure. Not an (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: New DK books on their way
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(...) That could be a mistake in the printing. I've seen LEGO yellow come out in photographs as looking orange. I don't remember the colors from our DK catalog. I'll try to remember to check it tonight. Especially as I'm supposed to be bringing a (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Rock Raiders IS a Space theme
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(...) Oh, definitely! :) Although I'm not as pleased with RR as I'd like to be, I do find myself (a die-heard Space head since 1978) wanting to collect AZ and RR as well -- for their "space-like" futurism and beauty and cool elements for building (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.space, lugnet.underground)
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| | Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
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Greg Kramer wrote in message ... (...) I found out about their existance quiye by accident. About a month ago I was trying to find a 4555 Freight Loading Station and happened upon this web page: (URL) I called Busy Bee I was informed that they (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Another ebay scammer
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(...) have a (...) poor (...) I do believe that adding a surcharge is against the policy of all major credit card companies, and is grounds for cancellation of a merchant account. Or atleast it was when I had one... (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: [FS] - eBay - McDonald's Promo set, box only - 25 cents
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(...) Bit if that's the case, why don't they at least have an option for sniper free auctions? (probably because the increased auction duration wouldn't pay off that well, they want auctions to run the 30% of the time which will get 70% of the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | 4x2ReVu: 6497 Twisted Time Train
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I'll be posting reviews here (instead of for the site I used to write for). Some of these reviews are older but unpublished, and there will be many NEW reviews for newer sets (Star Wars, Insectoids, Rock Raiders, etc.). ---...--- 6497 Twisted Time (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Price info on classic space
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(...) Well, he could definitely get more for them elsewhere. But that's not all that goes into setting the price. For example, if I were selling some computer stuff to a friend, I'd make the price a lot lower than what I could get on eBay. (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Rock Raiders IS a Space theme
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(...) Yeah, but conceptually, they're very space-like. I'd also consider putting the Aquazone stuff under space too. (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.space, lugnet.underground)
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| | Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!
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(...) Yeah, I was wondering about that myself. Gimme a little bit, and I'll post some statistics. (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Firmware
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Check the 9V battery in the tower, and check the position of the RCX in relation to the tower--for the firmware download only, it seems to need to be at about the same level and pretty close together. In one of my projects, a "trambot," the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: CW/CCW, vertex sequence, co-planar, convex [DAT]
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It seems to me that there are two major "camps" in the CW/CCW debate. A. Face-by-Face Method This method suggests that CW-ness be ultimately evaluated on a face-by-face basis. Each quad in a primitive or part would hold a value of CW,CCW, or (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Maybe a way to hit inaccurate "hard to find" listers on eBay
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Well, I just did it - emailed one of the McDonalds Drive Thru sellers, quoting that paragraph, and pointing out that their listing (which states "This kit is not available in stores and was produced in extremely limited numbers.") might violate it. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: 8485 uploaded and new xxxx.txt format
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(...) before submitting their post? What's so difficult about a testing a URL -before- pasting it into a message? --Todd (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.db.scans, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | firmdl3 @ 41.13s
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Hi, on my machine, original firmdl3 took 45.2s to download firm0309.lgo. - I increased packet size to 240 bytes, gaining roughly 2 seconds. - Added packet size prediction and bytewise decoding with a state machine (The decoder spent 50 ms per packet (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: New Meaning to Computer Aided Design
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(...) No offense, but I'd rather view the images full-size at their original location rather than slogging through yellow links and white text against a black and white pattern background somewhere that gets the image links wrong and doesn't even (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Has the world gone mad?!?
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(...) I haven't seen a LEGO commercial in years. I don't watch TV at the right time, I guess. Even so, in any competition involving construction toys, the judges should have some knowledge of what the commercial offerings are. If there was at least (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.us.tn.mem, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.tn, lugnet.loc.us.tn.mem)
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| | Maybe a way to hit inaccurate "hard to find" listers on eBay
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eBay has a "Powersellers" program for sellers who do more than $2000 worth of business a month on there. Powersellers are required to give a "Guarantee of Satisfaction". Here's what the Powersellers FAQ has to say: (...) "Accurately Represented" is (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
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(...) A very small part of me wishes I had noticed this so I could pick up 4 or 5 of them, mainly for my own use. Then again, I've never quite gotten into the whole freight train thing, so I don't know what good these would do me with nothing but (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Another ebay scammer
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(...) "Credit card orders add $2 convienece charge". Good for them rip off the poor and unsuspecting. Thats the way we like it :( . When does it all end... Eric K. Remove ".nospam" when replying by E-mail. The New England LEGO Users Group (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Somebody help.
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(...) Yeah, that's a pretty harsh movie. I found parts of it hillariously funny, but I doubt any set of parents would approve of their daughter being taken to see it. (...) I guess it just depends on the situation, the people, etc. By the time I was (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | Firmware
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My firmware will not download to the brick under any windows program I have including The origonal lego one. I have tried about 7 different ways, but it only counts up to about 200 until it starts to retransmit. I put it in a perfectly dark room and (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Comprehensive meta-command list
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(...) True. '0 INVERT END' may be allowed as a syntactic convenience to authors. Or 0 INVERT could be rewritten as 0 INVERT [ON|OFF|TOGGLE] where TOGGLE would be the default action. (...) [example snipped] 0 INVERT is different from 0 FACE [CW|CCW] (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Another ebay scammer
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Here's another eBay sale of a cheap S@H item for a ridiculous price: (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: [FS] - eBay - McDonald's Promo set, box only - 25 cents
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(...) I'd write 'em off. Either do it their way if you want to maximize profits or sell at SC or Bricks. Buy there if you want, of course. I'm convinced more and more that what eBay wants is for the seller to have every advantage over the buyer, (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Comprehensive meta-command list
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(...) Hooray! :) (...) Hooray! :) Steve (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Got my own "How Dare You" message from eBay ripoff artist
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(...) I agree. (...) I'd like to see it. Remove names, I don't mind. :) (...) Ah, one of the finer things in life! (...) I feel your pain. :) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: I've just overhauled my Lego Website.
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(...) because Ian's page: (URL) describes itself as "Scotlands Premier Website"? I was just wondering if this was coincidence or a hint of friendly competition :) I'm tempted to start my own Scottish Lego website now, although it would have to be (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: CW/CCW, vertex sequence, co-planar, convex, (115kB)
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Jacob: (...) Steve: (...) Jacob: (...) It happens every once in awhile. Actually, which approach *would* be better? Examining the transformation matrix to determine the state of inversion, and adjusting the CW/CCW setting to correct for it, would (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New meaning to Computer Aided Design...
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(...) If you go here and look at the 4th entry, (URL) a bunch of links. Click the one labeled "various structures" and it brings you to... (URL) from there, there's a bunch ton of photos and renderings. --Todd (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Rcx Command Center version 3.0 available
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(...) (you forgot to include the URL :-) (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Rock Raiders IS a Space theme
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(...) Hmm, skeptical. What exactly does it say? Even if Rock Raiders takes place on some other planet out in "space," it's not part of LEGO SYSTEM SPACE™. Rock Raiders is a theme within LEGO SYSTEM UNDERGROUND™. --Todd (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.space, lugnet.underground)
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| | Re: FS : Mars promo sets
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(...) *INCHING* toward acceptance of the metric system..." [emphasis mine] I saw it noted somewhere that the 2-liter soda bottle is a 2-liter bottle and not a 2.11-quart bottle *only* because the imperial measurement is not given as an alternative. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Pink spaceship
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<SNIP> (...) It´s Scala. And they have sparkle moulded into them, so I think that it would somewhat block the sight for the pilot. But maybe it is some new kind of protective windshield ;-) --Tobias (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Pink spaceship
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Well, in Ldraw once I took a ship I had there, and made a "girl" space theme. White and pink as main, and chrome for the details, then transparent pink windshields. --Tobias Paul Baulch skrev i meddelandet ... (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Recognizing multiple forms of the command shouldn't add much to rendering. Each file can be parsed once, and then the post-parsing results cached, for later re-reference. The FACE meta-command would be stored as an opcode and a single (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: I'm famous (or infamous)
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(...) Joe, I didn't walk! I swear! :-, (...) I think that there's a large culture gap between the "Real World" and radio DJ's. (Tom? Are you there? :-) (...) I've always worried about this possibility...my "alter-ego" being discovered and broadcast (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
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Hello there I know that Busy Bee only order 300, I am a BB regular, they also be getting some 2150, 3225 in soon, i think they may be able to get more 4536, but that will have to wait. And i know that one person have order 200 of these hopper cars, (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Hidden surface removal, and vertex order in part/primitive DAT files [DAT]
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(...) Forgot the footnote: 1- There's an interesting distinction between 'valid' and 'well-formed' contructions. LDraw will allow line-breaks as whitespace in commands, so: 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3001.dat is valid, but it's not well-formed. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I Have a the following to get rid of. 8839 With Box and manual 8856 With Manual Also i have a 8860 set with manual and box, but the box is in a bad shape (Drawing on the inside) So please send me your offers, or see my wants list on my web page (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!
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(...) Happy Anniversary! LUGNET is a wonderful community. I had reservations at first, because LUGNET news (so to speak) would be a drain on RTL. That is what has happened, and I miss the RTL'ers who haven't come over to LUGNET. OTOH, some neat and (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Comprehensive meta-command list
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Steve: (...) Yes. (...) Yes. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Blue Hopper Car Mania...
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So I know Busy Bee got in a lot (apparently several hundred) Blue Hopper Cars last week (or so)... and they're all gone now. I'm just curious about this phenomenon. Anyone know who found out first, and how? Who's our "patient zero" that started this (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!
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(...) Happy birthday, LUGNET! You are far more coherent than I was at one year old! :-, (...) It has far exceeded my expectations. Accessing RTL was hard for me -- our news server at work wouldn't send messages I posted to any other news server. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Track names (was Re: To Tore Eriksson)
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(...) I'm curious Chris, in what sets was that the case ? And do these gray ones have those "negative" tapered ends, just like the old blue track had ? In lugnet.cad.dev, Larry Pieniazek writes: (...) Gimme a set number for "the wildwest miningish" (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: FS : Mars promo sets
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Due to ingorance of the metric system, these candies will melt in your hands and not in your mouth... (URL) to .off-topic.fun Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrn7vhi1s.s9g.....bu.edu... (...) You're not alone. (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Standardized Inventory File Format?
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(...) Hmm, interesting. Are there any XML writers, to convert flat-ASCII to flat-XML? Steve (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: Comprehensive meta-command list
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(...) Yes, they do. In the example above, the first meta-command, 0 TRANSLATE 20 0 0, would persist until the end of the file. (...) I think I know the answer to this question, but just to be sure: is the 0 INVERT meta-command transparent to (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: CW/CCW, vertex sequence, co-planar, convex, (115kB)
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(...) I've been thinking the exact opposite -- mirroring should be a valid method for turning subfiles inside-out, and the software doesn't need to do anything special to deal with it (except to notice the inversion, and pass that info on to the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Interpreting the proposed FACE meta-command
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(...) Why not recognize it all ways: 0 FACE ACW 0 FACE ANTICLOCKWISE 0 FACE CCW 0 FACE CLOCKWISE 0 FACE COUNTERCLOCKWISE 0 FACE CW 0 FACE DOUBLESIDED 0 FACE DS 0 FACE UNKNOWN This adds a bit to the parser, but not so much. The recommended standard (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Hidden surface removal, and vertex order in part/primitive DAT files
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(...) No (like Gary said). Two reasons: 1. The 0 FACE directive would be an operative switch, not a global setting. This is convenient, but it is also necessary in some cases. Most importantly, it would allow the 0 FACE meta-statement to appear (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Hidden surface removal, and vertex order in part/primitive DAT files
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(...) That's what we're doing now--figuring out what the standard should be. Both the function and the syntax. But "standard" is an odd term in this case. In my mind the LDraw standard is defined as "code which is recognized and interpreted by (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Hidden surface removal, and vertex order in part/primitive DAT files
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(...) Neither do I, but I also know how hard it is to visually check a part for errors. (...) How does that work? Is it based on what the majority of the rays deterimine? I probably need to re-read some of the messages in this thread, to get a (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 8485 uploaded and new xxxx.txt format
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hmmm, this must not be my day. Third try: Todd: could we get a preview option like slashdot? (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.db.scans)
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| | Re: 8485 uploaded and new xxxx.txt format
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dang it! I always seem to type urls the new xxxx.txt format example is: (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.db.scans)
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| | Price info on classic space
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Hello, my friend in school has got a lot of lego from his big brother. Now, in that lego, there are several classic space figs and models. I have always wished that he someday could sort together some sets and sell them to me. Now, he has. Today, he (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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