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| (...) LUGNET is a free, mostly self-regulating community of FOL's, primarily of the A- variety, but with a few T- and K- types thrown in as well. Putting stricter systems in place to restrict and censor the tone of conversation in so-called (...) (20 years ago, 24-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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| (...) The ages I've seen posted by LUGNET users generally range in the 18+ range, but a few have posted ages in the 13-18 group, and a few others have posted in the under-13 group (I can think of at least one person from each of the non-adult age (...) (20 years ago, 25-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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| I believe the recent "distributed denial of service attack" was SWEN. I was getting copies of that from all over the world to my lugnews address, and only to my lugnews address, until you moved ports. That shut off the incoming viri like a switch. I (...) (21 years ago, 1-Oct-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: distributed denial of service attack
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| (...) So THAT's what was going on! I got over 2200 .swen virus emails in the 10 days or so preceding the closing of that port, and then, as you mentioned, they stopped like a switch had been flipped. Thanks so much for fixing that, Todd! Adrian (21 years ago, 2-Oct-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: NNTP is working (mostly)
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| (...) Actually, the site wasn't down -- only the dynamic portions of the webserver were shut off (voluntarily and automatically by the system) to help keep the load average down. The NNTP attacks are still coming and the total number of compromised (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) Did you move to port 1119? You didn't say if you had, but if you haven't, you might try that. Did you try repeatedly and check that the web access was working at the time that you got the failure? My experience has been that service is still (...) (21 years ago, 28-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) Thanks Tim for stepping up to the plate. Larry and Todd have done a good job of telling all what's going on, so I'll just add that I'm glad to be of service to the community in this way. Frank (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.org, lugnet.admin.curators)
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| Hi all, I've been itching to tell you all this for some time now... Frank Filz and myself are now able to add and remove curatorships to groups. (we've both tested the interface to do it, and it works fine) Pursuant to this announcement: (URL) start (...) (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.curators)
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| (...) No, I was referring to the number of images on a served page, and the byte count generated by an average BZPower page load, in comparison to pages on Lugnet which on average have far fewer individual graphics. The requirements from Kevin are (...) (21 years ago, 7-Oct-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| Hello! (...) The issue is not the F-word itself in my as always more than humble opinion. It is just one syllable composed of three phonemes (the sounds /f/, /A/ and /k/) when you speak it out loud, using four graphemes (the letters 'f', 'u', 'c' (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) LUGNET has admins? I haven't ever seen evidence of that...I seem to remember a particular thread that had the F word in it over twenty times and it was never edited or deleted. 'The friendliest place on the Internet', eh? (20 years ago, 20-Nov-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| (...) E-mail addresses are by convention lower case. This is because different mail hosts cope with case in different ways. By the standard described in [some RFC], they're supposed to respect it, but given all the weird operatings systems all over (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I have received 3 lugnet.trains mail echo posts since you turned it on for me. Since the instructions were rather vague, I presume it's currently a human (you :-) ) processing the requests... Seems to be working fine. Can you turn off "trains" (...) (26 years ago, 26-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: lugnet.* discussion groups by mail
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| (...) But you can't just go trading people's e-mail addresses without their permission. :-( (...) I've got it solved on my end, but I don't know how traditional mailing list servers are set up. Surely this has come up at least a zillion times before (...) (26 years ago, 26-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: lugnet.* discussion groups by mail
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| (...) What if messages coming in from alternate e-mail gateways (addresses other than lugnet.groupname@lugnet.com -- i.e. mailing lists) had their headers modified slightly before posting, so that the 'From' line was set to the address of the (...) (26 years ago, 27-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Help needed with MS Outlook & Firewall
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| Steve Barile (of PNLTC) sent this via e-mail and in another message said it was OK to post here. I wonder why some people can connect from behind firewalls and some can't... --Todd ___...___ Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:27:32 -0700 From: "Barile, (...) (26 years ago, 29-Sep-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: lugnet.* discussion groups by mail
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| (...) Ok, I think there's only one hitch here with this -- My mail->news converter code bounces messages back to their author when it can't post an article -- except if the message came through a non- lugnet.groupname@lugnet.com gateway (i.e., a (...) (26 years ago, 27-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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