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| I hate to suggest a new location group, but Northern Virginia (not just Arlington) should probably have it's own. In fact you could remove Arlington and replace it with nova and I doubt anyone would complain. KL (26 years ago, 2-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Two NEW nits
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| (...) It's supposed to suggest that you're writing a message "on top of" the other one -- i.e., following up the original with your new one. (...) Egad -- bite your tongue -- those NS4 icons are terrible! (I've had them turned off since installing (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: LUGNet Chat
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| (...) The game aspect is entirely optional, and is not needed or relevant for a Lego chat. I would suggest that a talker would be sufficent (no creatures or objects) as this would also be lighter on system resources. I guess private IRC is more (...) (26 years ago, 8-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Another NIT about the article page.
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| Scenario, Navigate a newsgroup several steps down. (URL) an article. (URL) the thread navigation through to the logical conclusion. (URL) the question. How do you get back to where you started. (URL) often seem to find myself 5 or 6 clicks away (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: A Technic set DB outline
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| First off, let me state that were I designing this from scratch I'd do an object model not a data model but... (...) You need a hierarchy table. Model it like this (not legit SQL) Table Theme ThemeID integer PRIMARY KEY NOT NIL ThemeType Code /* (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Lugnet.robotics and the Robotics List
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| Matthew Miller wrote in message ... (...) This is a possibility that would provide at least one group with a semi-guaranteed semblance of order, but it does not address the problem still existing on the mail list, and thus the proposed (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Carrying rec.toys.lego on lugnet.com
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| (...) Not to suggest anything bad about RTLers specifically, but it has been my experience that when you're talking about getting a large group of people to do something that they don't *have* to do, even if it would be to their benefit, chances are (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Where to put test postings
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| I have come to the idea that there is nowhere obvious to put test postings. I suggest the creation of the group lugnet.test for this purpose. Any comments? Carbon 60 (26 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials
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| (...) I'd say .market.buy-sell-trade -- not the .announce group and probably not the .general group -- because the market.* hierarchy was really intended as the place for that sort of thing (selling and things related to selling). Still, the (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Official and Unofficial theme categories
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| Some initial thoughts in promotional sets in my lunchbreak... Categorising promotional sets will as you suggest be frought with difficulties. That's why I went for the 'keyword' method of categorising them in my database, which can be a type of set (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| (...) It would be possible, yes -- (and actually very easy) -- but doing so may open up a can of worms. I'll give more details below, and maybe you'll have some ideas to suggest. (...) Everyone posting via NNTP actually does put e-mail addresses in, (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Help me out a bit on that -- When you say "doesn't really need to be," do you mean to suggest that those types of discussions are too esoteric for here? Heh heh -- we've got a special newsgroup here now just for weekly announcements of LEGO (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: US S@H Phone Specials 1/11/99 - 1/17/99
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| Todd Lehman wrote in message <369d88ee.21601198@l...et.com>... (...) This is just the opinion of a guy who has ignored this thread until today. I am interested, but decided whatever was agreed upon, was good for me. It is just that "lsahs" is the (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Charter for lugnet.announce.lsahs
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| (...) Allrighty then, I count four people (Gary L, Ben G, Tom McD, and me) who are in favor of the name being lugnet.announce.lsahs and no one yet directly opposed to that specific name. Linc S listed some other possibilities (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Informal CFD: robotics competition newsgroup(s)
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| (...) I grok what you're saying, almost. It's the conclusion that I have trouble making the quantum-leap to. :) OK, so the robotics ng has a different character or flavor or group-behavior than other groups...I grok that. How does it follow that the (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Informal CFD: robotics competition newsgroup(s)
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| (...) It gets back to expectations of behavior (both people and machines). As a mail-list subsriber, I'd expect the list to behave one way. As an ng reader, I'd have different expectations. If Chris Atlas had posted to lugnet.anything-else, I doubt (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Mailing list gateways
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| Todd Lehman wrote in message <36a6c04d.53070399@l...et.com>... (...) do (...) I conclude that a lack of an obvious need for something _is_ a reason not to do that something. If I have 10 bucks and someone says "place a bet with me... if you win I (...) (26 years ago, 21-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I meant, sometimes non-obvious needs exist even when no obvious needs exist. And sometimes when neither obvious nor non-obvious needs can be identified, something can still be worth doing. Most "needs" that people identify with started out as (...) (26 years ago, 21-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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