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From various feedbacks I receive, I understand that the PayPal link does not appear to work for everybody (potentially depending on the country you're living in?) Anyway, I'd want to keep this as simple as possible, so technically you can always use (...) (1 month ago, 13-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hi David, thanks for the feedback - I was not aware that the fundraiser page was having loading issues as it comes up just fine when I test from here. I hope it won't be a limitation because the account is set up as a personal account from (...) (2 months ago, 11-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) This is great news! :D Also, thanks for including the email address for the PayPal fundraiser, as the page that opens on PayPal from the link doesn't load. David Gregory member #590 (2 months ago, 11-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Funny, I had just finished reading the first big round of discussion on this (Jan '99). At the time the major issue was cross-posting; RTL wasn't yet overtaken by spam, but mostly just auction postings and clueless newbies (the regulars all (...) (2 months ago, 10-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Another missing message (was Re: Posts expiring?)
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(...) Wow, that's odd. Thanks for noticing and reporting. (...) Thanks again! I don't know if it's a clue that will be ultimately useful, but it's definitely intriguing. The post absolutely should not be missing, and its absence is indicative of a (...) (2 months ago, 10-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Oops, I just found another missing message: lugnet.announce:37 So that may be a worthwhile idea, as there are almost certainly more. By the way, the subject of that message was "Disclosure of your real name"--I was just trying to figure out (...) (2 months ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) One thing worth a quick check inside is the directory news/art/control If the articles were cancelled maliciously from the outside by forgery (somehow) of cancel-request messages from <news@lugnet.com>, this directory would contain a log of (...) (2 months ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Aw, man, I hear that. If only we'd kept a fork of RTL on here as an archive -- then it would still all be accessible. I think that was actually suggested or considered at one point, but the problem was huge volumes of spam, which was one of (...) (2 months ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Thanks for the quick restoral, Jerry! I wonder if it's possible to do a 'diff' on the tree of articles (old/new, where "old" points at the backup) to see if any others accidentally went missing (ignoring files that match the name "1" or "2")? (...) (2 months ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It's a pretty funny coincidence, actually. I'd been going over old archives of RTL(1) and then more recently LUGNET(2) as it came into being in 1998. At the same time, I happened to be chatting with Todd about something completely unrelated, (...) (2 months ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hi Suz, yeah, the ads became more and more annoying as well as disconnected to the other LUGNET content - if they can't provide delivery of relevant ads, we're better off not placing ads at all. Ads actually used to be sort of relevant and (...) (2 months ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Interesting that there should be _missing_ posts after all these years. I had encountered a major hang in the internals of the news system the other day and resolved the same - for reasons entirely mystic to me that must have triggered (...) (2 months ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Thanks! Just happy to know it's unintentional and not a sign of anything going away. Having this information still accessible is a wonderful thing; takes me back to better days of the Internet. :-) (2 months ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Wow! Thanks for noticing and pointing out that these have gone missing. (...) There's actually no expiry mechanism for LUGNET news articles. However, it's possible to cancel an article on a case-by-case basis using a script internally. The (...) (2 months ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I'm sorry that the ads didn't work out. (though selfishly happy to see the site without them). :-) Thank you for all your work, Jerry. I'll be happy to send a donation. -Suz (...) (2 months ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Thank you for noticing and bringing this to our attention. -Suz (...) (2 months ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi, I just noticed that articles n=1 and n=2 seem to have expired from each newsgroup. Those are the Welcome/charter and Terms of Use posts, respectively. Is this due to some intentional administrative action, or is there any concern that additional (...) (2 months ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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| | Re: LUGNET is moving servers once more
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(...) (4 years ago, 3-Jun-22, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Dear Jerry I am exploring the possibilities offered by the Lego Dacta/RoboLab kit I have just bought on Ebay. I used Lego Dacta in the first school I worked in back in the late 90s. I am hoping that I can adapt it to enthuse the A Level & BTEC (...) (5 years ago, 30-Jun-21, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Dear Jerry I am exploring the possibilities offered by the Lego Dacta/RoboLab kit I have just bought on Ebay. I used Lego Dacta in the first school I worked in back in the late 90s. I am hoping that I can adapt it to enthuse the A Level & BTEC (...) (5 years ago, 30-Jun-21, to lugnet.admin.general)
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