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| (...) S@H specials would also not belong in .shopping if it is for places with a retail outlet. What is the difference between The Vault and S@H? (...) There may need to be a place to discuss issues with BrickLink and general discussion of brick (...) (23 years ago, 21-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.terms)
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| (...) .b-s-t (...) operation, (...) I had always assumed that .shopping was for reports for / from stores with actual physical retail operations (storefronts), and that everything else went into .bst. Todds comments about The Vault seem to refute (...) (23 years ago, 20-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.terms)
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| (...) of taking ~2 minutes to start up, the NNTP is working properly again. It may be related to me opening the auth port on my home firewall, and enableling the auth service inside.... I'm wondering if anyone else (who was having the problems (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| Hello, My membership to lugnet is fairly recent. So far, I've enjoyed a great many things from this community. I've been here long enough to watch the fall of "Cool Lego Site of The Week". Also, I've read the transcript from BrickWest (several (...) (23 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: Ideas ready to be shot down
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| (...) It is a bit confusing to determine what you're doing and when, there. But I think Kevin chose on the basis of price (as in, he gets more of the fee than if he went with a comparable service) rather than ease of use. I managed to figure it out (...) (23 years ago, 5-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| I checked with a former associate doing business law and she agreed that US regulations on non-profit organizations linked with or being users' groups of a commercial product or service is very tricky. Tax advisors would actually tell you to be (...) (23 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| (...) Banner ads are fine with me. I've been meaning to buy some over on Brickshelf for my store, but haven't gotten around to making an actual banner yet! If you go this route, I'd suggest doing it yourself or getting someone a little less (...) (23 years ago, 5-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| (...) Banners I could live with, but pop-ups are very bad. BANG. (...) BANG. Bad idea IMO. While clearing out a lot of the noise (good thing), this will in effect make 99% post less, so LUGNET will seem dead most times. Again, IMO. BANG. (for good (...) (23 years ago, 5-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| (...) Yes, but do they care enough to do what needs to be done? And if they care, is that thing a doable thing just because they care? I don't think so. Any call for a penalty for anyone is just whistling in the wind because it's not the community (...) (23 years ago, 27-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) No, advertising has proven to be a very poor way of earning money. Just look at all the web sites with an advertising business model that died in the last year. Sure, you can get some money by delivering eyeballs to advertisers, but not as (...) (23 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| Here's a few comments and ideas. It's great news that LUGNET might go commercial. With dedicated staff and paid part-timers maintaining the project it will certainly improve and grow. Some of my suggestions may go against the 'charter' for this (...) (23 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| (...) Lessee if I can remember... I _had_ been staying logged in, and when I posted, I had to fill out name and e-mail, check the "I will give LUGNet my firstborn" box (or whatever it says). Plain or FTX worked fine. (I'm guessing that I hadn't (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| I moved to a new computer at work, and re-ran the posting setup. Now when I post it won't accept FTX, but when I post in plain text, it's ok. I haven't received the e-mail back from the server - will this unsightly condition clear up then? Thanks, (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| OK, thanks for unsubscribing me Dan, and sorry for all the bounced messages guys. I got made redundant from UBIStudios about three weeks and didn't have time to unsubscribe from the mailing list (I've only just got internet access again) I'm really (...) (23 years ago, 15-Nov-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Art Museum
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| (...) If you'd like an article that you authored cancelled and you are unable to do it yourself because it was web or mail posted, or for whatever other reason, send a note requesting the cancel to the LUGNET admins, or to Frank Filz, or to myself (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-03, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| Perhaps this isn't anything new, but I was a bit surprisd to see a LUGNET member's page pop up on a Google internet search. I've never seen that happen before, and somehow thought LUGNET was immune... Was I confused? Thanks, -Jon (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| I'm going to answer to some of the things that were raised by others over the weekend... On Todd's banning me from Lugnet: Todd has not contacted me privately, indeed he is unable to do so because I'm not going to publish new contact information (...) (21 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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