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| I just discovered something else that stems from the setting of the From: field to the posters name, rather than lugnet.com, for the news/mail gateway to the robotics list: I posted something in lugnet.robotics, and the postmaster for some (...) (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: posting failure?
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| (...) What web browser are you submitting this from? I'll hafta mess around and try to recreate the problem. I think BramL was having the same problem a few weeks ago...but I think that was a Juno e-mail problem. In the meantime, try e-mailing the (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Interesting bit of news/mail gateway trivia..
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| (...) Bummer, I was afraid this might happen someday. Not only did the mailserver dishonor the Errors-To header, it looks like it also deleted it when it bounced a copy of the message it back to you! :=( On all outgoing news-by-mail messages, the (...) (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: posting failure?
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| (...) You e-mailed the .DAT file to lugnet.cad.dat@lugnet.com then? Veddy veddy odd...it hasn't shown up in the ng, and it doesn't appear in the dead- articles file (the rejects file) on the server. It's as if it never made it to the server. Do you (...) (26 years ago, 4-Feb-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) writes: (...) gotten a (...) rather (...) only (...) a (...) the (...) 566 (...) could (...) I'm using IE5b2, but it's never given me a lick of trouble before. I've gone ahead and sent the file, we'll see if it makes it. The rejection message (...) (26 years ago, 4-Feb-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Two questions
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| (...) Help me out here with some more details... Here are a couple URLs to jog your memory... Were you going through the news-posting setup--? (URL) were you going through the news-by-mail setup--? (URL) Checking my email account, lugnet indeed had (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Don't steal things from other web sites
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| (...) I wonder too. I think it definitely slows the spread of information. Still, I don't believe that the ends don't justify the means; and getting permission first probably only slows things by a very small percentage overall. (...) Then again, (...) (26 years ago, 7-Feb-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: posting failure?
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| (...) Well, this bug is certainly interesting. (Thank you for discovering this, BTW.) I've got the problem narrowed down to a file size limitation of approximately 16.5 KB in an NNTP connection library. I know that it's not a bug somewhere in the (...) (26 years ago, 8-Feb-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: posting failure?
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| (...) Getting closer...I have a workaround. I'll have to talk to the authors of the Net::Cmd module to be absolutely certain about the nature of the problem, but I think I see it clearly now. The post() method of Net::NNTP goes like this[1]: sub (...) (26 years ago, 8-Feb-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Dear Administrator
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| [followups set to lugnet.admin.general] (...) I think this all boils down a few layers of simple good-natured confusion. Long ago (December, I think), when Kurt Eilers and John Neil (friends) signed up together, there was evidence that they may have (...) (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: THE LAST WORD
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| (...) Absolutely. I originally set follow-up to .debate because of the potential for controversy or flames. I didn't make it an adminstrative issue becuase I try to give the benefit of the doubt, and suggested it might be in error, and offered a (...) (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: "the community"
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| (...) Why not just: usenet.alt.toys.lego usenet.fr.jeux.lego usenet.rec.toys.lego I hope you will make sure that people are made aware that (usenet.)alt.toys.lego is obsolete. Maybe by preventing people from posting to the group? Play well, Jacob (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Soccer ball name
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| (...) I only get the one copy -- the one you e-mail to me (assuming it makes it to me OK, which is highly probable but not guaranteed). I also see a copy of the article you posted when I read via NNTP. If I were reading lugnet.cad.dev via e-mail (...) (26 years ago, 28-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Robotics sub-groups
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| (...) Well, I want the resolution that's most beneficial to the individual projects and most enjoyable for participants. Fine resolution is good as long as it lives up to the promise of providing for more focused discussions but bad if it is so fine (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Digests
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| (...) Nice work! :-) I'd rather see the headers sorted by title instead of time. That would put all the "Droid development kit" messages next to each other. Another nice thing was if you could (optionally) send HTML mail, and instead of a simple (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Digests
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| Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) Is there any chance of digests by volume or count? I'm on a few digests elsewhere that run on a "when the moderator thinks there's enough for a digest" basis. Being able to say "when there are more than 1000 (...) (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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