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| (...) Oh. I see. Jamie: All of the loc groups are parallelized and orthogonalized by country. The two-letter designators (that is, the xx's in lugnet.loc.xx) are the countries' respective Internet first-level domains, so as long as New Zealand has (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: .loc.bn (Brunei)
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| (...) That's nice, but won't the groups be highly inflated? (...) Fans in Malaysia? Quite a few. Fans with internet connections, not really :) West Malaysia was formerly called Malaya and has 11 states and Malaysia's Federal Territory (KL). It is (...) (25 years ago, 27-May-99, to lugnet.loc.bn, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Howto message search with nntp client
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| (...) NNTP (and SMTP and many other Internet protocols) are designed in such a way that extensions are welcomed -- as long as (typically) they're identified as such. For example, another NNTP extension which is popular is the 'XOVER' command -- it (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Howto message search with nntp client
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| (...) Oops, the search text was indeed transmitted. BTW, RFC 0997 mentions no command "XPAT", so I don't know where Netscape Communicator got *that* from. Perhaps Microsoft isn't the only company trying to redefine the Internet. :-P Cheers, - (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Cracking down on unauthorized image links
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| (...) I agree with all of the above (in principle); those were some of my first thoughts as well. But like I said before, "All of these [gripes of his] are tangible concerns which are likely to resurface again and again among the general Internet (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: problem with dat groups.
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| (...) What kind of Internet connection are you on (what speed) and where are you located? Do you have a dynamic or static IP address? I could do a traceroute to your IP address and see what kinds of latency there is. I don't think I've seen it (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Problems reading messages & with cookie
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| I'm having 2 problems with the web interface to the LUGNET newsgroups using Internet Explorer 3.03 and Windows 3.1: 1) When I try and follow a link to a specific message I get an error message: "This program does not support the protocol for (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: lugnet.com upgrade/downtime/heads-up
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| (...) Huh? Performance issues? That's new to me. Tell me more. No, as far as I'm aware, the upgrade won't address any speed issues that would make any noticeable difference... What type(s) of problems have you noticed? The server has only barely (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: lugnet.com upgrade/downtime/heads-up
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| (...) It's probably the same scenario that Mike Stanley is seeing, but I'm not so sure sometimes. I'm accessing LUGNET around the hours of 9 AM to 6 PM MDT, in Utah. I'm on a 100Mb LAN connected through Novell's Internet link, which is typically (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: memberships
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| (...) That works too. :) (...) It's fairly high, but getting the basic memberships ready is now at the very top (and that's got two or three sub-parts to go in simultaneously) now that the new layout is in place. (...) There have been ideas kicking (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Lost cookies
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| In an attempt to free up some disk space I had a clearout of my Temporary Internet Files folder in Windows 98. I was shocked by the number of unwanted cookies that various internet sites had dumped on my machine (yeah, I know, I should have had (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Faces of LUGNET
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| (...) Personally, I would find such a page funny. I recently checked out a page with pictures from a LEGOfest and was amused to see what people looked like. But I would hardly say that such a page is needed. If anybody bothers to maintain such a (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: appeals mainly to adults
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| (...) Well said Eric! I agree, Todd deserves a lot of credit. I also liked your point about how society looks upon a 30 year old playing with toys. Boy did that bring back memories. I left my dark ages in 1979 (at age 26) and was thrown into the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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| | What happened to my posting setup?
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| Last night I found out that lugnet wouldn't let me post with out filling out the posting setup again. I filled it out again and every thing seems fine but, I still keep wondering what happened. Lately, I had been having some computer trouble and (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Please help keep LUGNET clean
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| (...) Well, you're right, of course. I was mostly kidding with the tribal cheiftan bit, obviously, but IMHO it's worked so far. Of course, as someone noted elsewhere, the maturity level around here is pretty high, so it hasn't been a huge job from (...) (25 years ago, 5-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Posting Twice!!!
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| (...) Whoops, you're absolutely right. I get MSOE and MSIE mixed up all the time. Fraser was using MS Internet Exploiter, not MS Look Out!. It's IE5 that's doing the evil. --Todd (25 years ago, 11-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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