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We appreciated your patience during the downtime today Thank you for bearing an unusually long downtime today. We certainly weren't expecting a 9-hour outage simply for the replacement of a disk. You may have noticed on the LUGNET homepage during (...) (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.org, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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(...) Thanks Todd and all the LUGNET’s out there. I put my 2 cents forth to the fund (ok a little more). Happy Lego David Bail #154 (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, FTX)
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I have just added a small amount to your "fund drive". I was happy to make a donation, but I expect I'd be happier if LUNGET published accounts. That way we could all see what the future holds... (...) Novice question: could the old box not work as (...) (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, FTX)
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Money has been sent! Best of luck in aquiring the new hardware! I am sure that you will not have any problems, as LUGNET is well worth the money. Atleast it is to me, hopefully everyone else who is able to will step up and help out. I am excited by (...) (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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(...) Yeah!! Way to go, Scott! Thank you. :-) (...) Yes, I think that'll be re-visited now. -Suz (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, FTX)
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Kwyjibo? (: (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, FTX)
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Hey, folks, look at it this way: it's less calories than Girl Scout cookies! And the satisfaction lasts a lot longer! Funds sent, James Wilson #1783 (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, FTX)
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Please accept $250.00 from Big Ben Bricks LLC. Big Ben Bricks LLC would not be where it is today without the support of LUGNET and many of it's members. I encourage others with LEGO related ventures, who use LUGNET to promote their products, to do (...) (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, FTX) !!
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Done! Keep up the good work. Paul (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, FTX)
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(...) I hope my little donation will help you with the new server. Mark "keep up the GoodWork" de Kock (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, FTX)
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(...) Please accept my small donation along with my utmost apprecation... Ken (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, FTX)
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(...) I've sent a small contribution but I see the exchange rate at the moment certainly helps. Running the whole of LUGNET on a Celeron 900 - that's outrageous! Simon Denscombe LUGNET Member 93 (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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(...) I may be able to help with the colo aspect. I just moved Brickshelf to a new ISP, and I still have some rack space left. Its at Equinix in Ashburn, VA which has some of the most abundant and lowest cost bandwidth anywhere. Rack space however (...) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, FTX)
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I just sent U$S10 via paypal, I hope you got it and it helps. Thank you for your work and efforts. Nicolas (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, FTX)
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Hi Todd, Please accept my humble contribution and let me thank you for all your efforts on behalf of thid comunity. Keep up the good work! Best regards, Paulo Renato (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, FTX)
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(...) That's awesome, Kevin! I'm actually pretty set on colo in Boston, though, at least for the next twelve months. If it outgrows that, setting up another production server for redundancy in another city would certainly make sense rather than a (...) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, FTX)
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(...) (I wish I could reply to everyone personally with thanks, but haven't the time to do that and have to get to bed ASAP because I have to be in at work tomorrow at 5:30am. Replying to Ben here in particular because, well, WOW.) Ben, thank you so (...) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, FTX)
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Mr. Gower cables you need cash. Stop. My office instructed to advance you up to twenty-five dollars. Stop. Hee-haw and Merry Christmas. -Sam Wainwright Here's to Todd Lehman, the richest man in town. (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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(...) Don't you worry; I'm plotting to spend it all. (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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(...) Responsibly, I mean. Of course! (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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(...) Ya, I think the future holds public disclosure of this sort of thing, especially if we turn LUGNET into a Non-Profit Organization. (...) In a perfect world, it certainly could, as you say in the short term. The monkey wrench, however, is that (...) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, FTX)
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Hi Todd, I also made a small contribution and hope this all will get the new server up and running. Thanks and with kind regards from the Netherlands, DP #1511 Dirk Peter Bakker Bricks 4 Sale (URL) (21 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, FTX)
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Donation sent...... Thanx Todd and keep the momentum going! Mark & Milissa Millere (21 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, FTX)
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(...) This is intriguing. Not to go too far off-topic, but would turning LUGNET non-profit make our donations (at least for those of us in the United States) in the future tax-deductible? Because if so, that's very, very cool. I'm not sure where the (...) (21 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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(...) I'm no tax expert, let alone a lawyer. But I'm not sure that Lugnet would fit under the 501(c)(3) definition -- a "charitable, educational, religious, literary, or scientific". And given that words in legalese don't mean what they mean in (...) (21 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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You don't think Lugnet is edumacational? ;-) I certainly do. (...) -- Tom Stangl *(URL) Visual FAQ home *(URL) Visual FAQ Home (21 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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(...) Well, that's where the legal-words thing comes in. Maybe that category is actually broad enough to include us -- or could be, simply with the addition of a new mission statement. But maybe it has to be more focused than that. Maybe it fits (...) (21 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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(...) I hope it's a Schnell Schleim Server. ROSCO (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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(...) LUGNET can't become a 501(c)3 organization because it doesn't provide its services to anyone, regardless of age. The closest LUGNET could get would be a 501(c)7 "Social and Recreational" organization. Paul Sinasohn, who has been through this (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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(...) It doesn't? (...) I don't think so, for the opposite reason: the "social and recreational facilities" here *are* available to the general public. (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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Hi Todd, Just so you know I have some LEGO display stuff I'm putting up on auction on my Bricklink store. The display minifig is going to have 10% of the final bid go to lugnet. The other display stuff will be between 25% and 50% :) (I also need to (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, FTX)
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(...) Thanks, Anne! Very kind of you. (...) Actually you should announce auctions in lugnet.market.auctions rather than in lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade. (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, FTX)
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Update: Thanks to donations totalling over $4K from more than 150 people around the world, we not only hit our target in four short days days but exceeded it -- by a margin wide and comfortable enough to afford a superb hardware configuration and (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.org, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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(...) Super-cool! Great news. Everyone's behind you Todd! Have fun spending money on the fun new toys. :o) --Dave (21 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, FTX)
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(...) Great news!!! thanks to Todd and all the LUGNET's out there. David Bail (21 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, FTX)
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(...) I need help. Can someone reset my password to my email address ID. thanks David Bail #154 (21 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, FTX)
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(...) done (21 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) Thank You. (21 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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Yeehah! That's great news, Todd. Since you and Suzanne have logos, and LEGO company folk have a logo, I suggest you make a new logo for all those who donated. Like a gold lolipop - 'cause we're suckers for a good cause! should I have posted to (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, FTX)
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(...) My thanks also!! You folks are awesome! I can't begin to tell you how excited I was when the aid began pouring in. Not so much by the quickly rising donation total (although that was pretty swell- especially once I realized what it would make (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, FTX)
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(...) Warm fuzzies are good. I fully support LUGNET and all you guys do to keep it cool. Besides, I had to repay you folk for all those beautiful pink and white flower elements from a few years back. ;o) We do what we can, however small it may be. (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, FTX)
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