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| <snip> (...) Like you said it isn't perfect. I definitly like the off-topic stuff hidden and I guess the admin stuff too even though I do like to read those sometimes it will just require an extra click on my part. I think I have mixed feelings on (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Um, ditto. :-, (...) But I'm not so sure if these will work, at least not on a scale that affects everyone. In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: (...) If the .off-topic.* and .admin.* messages are unpalatable for "commoners", then (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) "They" == the messages, not the "commoners". The more people, the merrier. "Commoners" is such a yucky term also. How about "newbies". Or am I just being elitist? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I wish that were easier to do. To do that would mean ripping the guts out of the insides instead of just the top. Easy to code, actually, but much harder to code for both viewing possibilities (shown and not-shown). It wasn't a design criteria (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: <snip> (...) Much better by the way. I think that is what was bothering me before. It's not nearly as bothersome now. Before the screen was screaming at me that it was hideing messages. Thanks for fixing (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Everyone is welcome. And BTW, it was a long-time regular who said he'd had it. (...) I think it's great too, and I would hate to see people feel less comfortable having discussions like that. But since this place is primarily for LEGO stuff, (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Ah. I see. Hmm. Well, the .debate group doesn't really exist to "invite" debates but rather to have a place to deflect them to, because they always seem to come up in any sufficiently large online newsgroup or mailing list situation. OTOH, (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Sorry 'bout that. That was a total accident -- never was supposed to be that big. I forgot the SIZE="-2" attribute in the <FONT> tag and didn't test properly. (...) Wouldda loved to've been able to do that quickly, but that'd require some (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Are we on the same page? Yes, you suggested something involving bowdlerisation, but what you suggested was that auctions be allowed in theme discussion groups and subsequently that everyone reading those discussion groups be required to (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Wait. I'm on crack. It sometimes seems like a year, but the homepage with coalesced groups has only been up since early last May, IIRC. Anyway, it had been suggested in the past, but didn't reach critical mass right away. --Todd (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Yah -- here's to looking for that better solution! (...) That would be awesome. Hopefully, such a system might be expanded upon in the future to arbitrarily block of ther groups; I'm not so hot on seeing messages from .belleville for example. (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) That's fair. I've been on muscle relaxants for the past two days; I'm not sure if my posts have been entirely coherent (not that they would be anyway :-). (...) The decision for the change completely blindsided me. The recent (yesterday's) (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Ya, it was pretty quick. Kind of like a thunderclap. :) It was 10% kneejerk and 90% "Oh my god, look what has happened, as warned. X and Y and Z (people) were right all along!" (I think JoshuaD was the first person to point out the potential (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Yes! That's what's really annoying. Even with the smaller font, not having four messages on the front page is bad bad bad. Actually I'd like to see 10 messages on the home page, but four is fine as long as the number is FIXED, not variable. (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Scott, Give it up! I've been watching this thread for some time and frankly I'm glad Todd added the Auction and Admin filter to the main page. Your incessant whining and pestering is getting very hard to tolerate and I'm glad to have to (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I'm gonna haveta "me too" on this. I am a potential buyer in some of these auctions. I am not so dense or clueless that I would give up looking for an auction if the notices aren't thrown in my face. As such, I expect the sellers in these (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I'll see if I can fix that. It interprets ?n=X,-Y as "display messages xxx through X-Y+1 inclusive" rather than as "display Y messages, counting downards, starting at X." They were always the same before, but not now. --Todd (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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