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"Matt Hein" <Pyrokid17@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Gs9tC4.Hys@lugnet.com... (...) The illustration above is not at all what I picture Larry's actions to be. Nor is it what I picture anyone else's actions who has advocated community policing (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hey! Same here! Sure, it's fine if somebody corrects an error, but It really gets bad when they self appoint themselves as LUGNET police. It takes all the fun out of the original discussion,and turns it into a flame war, something I don't like (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) There's actually two problems which cause funny dated/timed messages. The one Lugnet has had from day 1 is that the poster's clock is incorrectly set. This usually results in messages having time stamps which are off by several hours, but if (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Two questions: (1) I'd like to update my membership info, but it's been so long I've forgotten how. How do I do that? (2) I forgot my password, what do I do? I didn't see any links to help pages, but maybe I'm just blind or something. thanks, (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) There is a time, in everyone's life, where your rules for governing your own life come back and bite you in the heinie. My thick skin aside... Bram didn't start this ruckus. Quoteth Larry " (...) " Constructive suggestion #1, from the above (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It would help if the server could "nag" people if their auth response was never received. An e-mail reminder could help in case the original auth request was deleted or never delivered. I've always wondered ever since the auth system was put (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) ?? Wouldn't it show up in their mail on the day it actually got posted rather than the day it was sent, queued up and was intended to be posted? A mail interface person who didn't closely check the date on the mail, or a newsreader person (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I view the dates differently. In the authentication scenario, the authorize date is the date when the poster made a conscious decision to share their message with the community, the message's birthday. The date they wrote and submitted the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That point is the first purely market oriented post. Even if it's a direct reply or followup to a post... Bram's followup to his original post was market related, pure and simple, and nothing else. (...) I'm not. I saw a lot of whinging by you (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Maybe that's the penalty you mention below? Someone who doesn't authorize a message right away runs the risk of having their message being not read as it gets inserted in it's proper place in line-perhaps after a week or so? Is that even (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) nod, interesting... or send a reminder, saying "if you don't authorize this post in the next 2 days, it will be deleted"... (...) it can, but should it? I think the date the message was written is the date that should appear on it. the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I like this suggestion. If the message isn't dispositioned within 5 days (I like 3 better) send the entire text of the message back to the sender via e-mail and remove it from the server. The message could easily be reposted via newsreader if (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) so you think if it inserted itself with all the read messages, it'd be less confusing? I know I'd never see it, now will anyone who reads through the web interface... (...) naw - it's not the server's fault that whoever it is sat on the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Oops...ought to clarify for readers that this is a web interface problem. Obviously those having the messages delivered via newsgroup or e-mail would not see this as a new message...it would just show up by date where it belongs in their (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That would only be true if the message somehow just showed up where it belonged in line. If it posts as a new message 28 days later, it is highly confusing. This instance has proven that. Besides, it is a disservice to the users to have their (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I don't see it as broken. The date of a message is the date it was composed. The date it was posted is unimportant, imo. :) Dan (24 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Nope, that's not what anyone is saying. There would have been a point reached where, had the replies continued, it should have been moved to wherever else if it had nothing to do with trains. It's like, hypothetically, RCX newsgroup, "Hey I'm (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I quite agree with Lar on the points he relates here (snippage aside). I myself have a vested interest in Lego marketing directly from TLC, but it would be absolutely inappropriate for me to make more than just the casual reference that I make at (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Indeed! My most abject apologies Scott. Had I caught that error in the posting scheme, I would never have responded as I did! Again, my apologies! Thank you Rob, for catching that mistake. Admins: What is the deal with this? Is it a function (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Which is why the original post, which had on topic aspects, got merely a ribbing. I whould have hoped that Bram was enough of a thought leader to connect the dots (where his purely market relatd followup should go) without an explicit warning. (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It looks like you both did. Scott's message is dated 1-Feb, a couple of days following the previous message, although it showed up some 8 hours ago. If I look at the dates, you're the one holding the shovel. I thought this NNTP date (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Shouldn't that be "rucki"? XFUT: off-topic.pun, because this doesn't belong in admin.general. And if you disagree, I'm gonna go get mom! -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com (24 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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Come on Lar, I think we can all see the difference between posting a message saying XX parts now in my brinklink store, and a link to an image that shows a valuable building technique which also states in the image (and not in the original posting) (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yes, there should be little room for ruckusii (that's latin for more than one ruckus). (...) But this is the point: this incident aside, I support, encourage and wholeheartedly embrace policing (see rant before about community policing). My (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Be careful, as TC would say: "If I'm doing my duty and respectfully guide someone on something they post, and THEY or THEIR COHORTS cause a ruckus, oh well. That's THEIR problem (and that problem will be corrected too). There should be little (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) well, from what I can see, the www server and the news server are meant to be two seperate machines... So naturally your page is on the www server (though one day it might be on a members.lugnet.com), and not on the news server. Perhaps the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) True. (...) Oooh! That's got to hurt! (...) Portholes are awesome! (...) hmm.... (...) I would have done the same (...) Gee, I wonder how that happened?! (...) Right on! I agree with you on that one! Bram's posts weren't illegitimate, but I do (...) (24 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Thanks, Dave. --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu www.bldesign.org (24 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) And yet this thread generated responses by those who took the idea and made their own portholes for their own trains, so it appears to be a pretty legitimate train topic to me. If Bram said 'You must buy my stuff to see how I do it!' then it's (...) (24 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.announce.lsahs, Tom Stangl writes: Isn't it time to kill this page: (...) (URL) (24 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I see no yelling. Merely gentle guidance. (...) (off topic) (...) (because I got away with the first one?) (...) Four. FUT admin.general since you seem to have an issue with gentle guidance on this. Your original message was off topic for (...) (24 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi Dan! Mah Nishma? As usual it's me and my obnoxious requests. ;-) When I'm somewhere reading the news, I'm at this address: (URL) say I want to get to one of my membership pages, I always type "~88/" at the end of the address, so it becomes: (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yeah, *gosh* Erin, you're just waaaayy too old! I mean, you can't enter this site if you're over fifteen. So out, out with you! -Shiri P.S. Good to see you again! Where you been? How's life? XFUT .people (24 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.people)
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Whoops! Looks like a problem at my end, dangit, looks like I'm over the hill... (...) (24 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Wow, just logged in and noticed that all the writing in Lugnet is large. Could someone explain to me whether this is temporary or not? Am I just expieriencing browser problems? Or is the Lugnet AFOL constituency becoming over the hill and in need of (...) (24 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I suggest making use of a signature file. I have not yet met a newsreader that does not have this function -- even Outlook Express has a signature file function (under Tools, Options, Signatures) as does Netscape and all of the better (...) (24 years ago, 24-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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Would it be possible to add an 'edit my message' button to the posting form - sometimes I've made a simple mistake - like not remembering to say 'remove spamblock to reply' - and a button that allows someone to edit their post before they let it get (...) (24 years ago, 24-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'd hold off on advocating that change, because I think the broken links may be temporary. Kevin announced that BrickShelf LLC is seeking permission from LEGO to make the images available. Why not wait to see if he succeeds? (25 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In light of recent chages to Brickshelf.com, specifically the removal of the instruction scans, is the set guide going to be changed to remove the hyperlinks to the instructions that no longer exist on Brickshelf.com. The main reason I ask is all of (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Annual CD? That sounds nifty! I'm assuming that is not a product, but a tool for Lego and their distro's use. -Kyle (25 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.admin.database, Thomas Garrison writes: [snip post (URL) thanks for your comments! My propper reply will take longer than I have right now, but I just want to leave a few facts w/you, regarding the db.. - There are admin notes in the set (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.admin.general)
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I'm a bit of a conservative on this. I see nothing wrong with *the* homepage: (URL) Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message news:GruotL.5r3@lugnet.com... (...) and (...) lugnet.events (...) "calendar (...) the (...) pet (...) Me too. Its a (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think this link should not go, but be changed into an events calendar, links to large events sites (BrickFest in DC, BricksWest in CA, the big rtlToronto events, LEGOWORLD in the Netherlands, etc), and links to event pictures. Possible (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Dan & All, (...) I tried to do (URL) and then www.michlug.org and then michlug.org but (URL) works. Heh. Thanks Dan! They are working within specified parameters now. : ) Scott S. -- (25 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) As most of us know, this has happened before. Although I do not expect this link will be a long-term problem, I wonder if it is possible for admins to provide a warning page between future problem links and the pages concerned – assuming that (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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For the Record: (...) [snip] (...) I agree. and that goes for -any- group, not just general. -Suz (25 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) did you put in your sites as "michlug.org" or "(URL) Try it, I think it'll solve this problem. :) Dan (25 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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To Whom IT May Concern, I am trying to clean up my profile on the people side of LUGNET, and I am trying to update my website information. It seems to point to www.lugnet.com/people and then the website I inputed. Is this a glitch or something, or (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Richard, Don't get uptight. Just learn from your error and move on. Scott A (25 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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...and you, and others, include the link in your replies in .general. Scott A (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) <snip> (...) I did what I could to make a bad situation better. I didn't know what else to do but knew that resolution was needed. I just wanted to find help, and didn't know how else to do it. Seemed like the best "common sense" at that (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yes, why indeed... I would posit that you would have served the entire community a lot better by dropping a note to Kevin about this pic instead of posting a link to it to ***.GENERAL***, for goodness sake, with nary a word of warning that (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Good idea. I suggest "lugnet.whine" for that. --Bill. XFUT: lugnet.admin.nntp (25 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) <snip> (...) Todd, Thanks for the explanation and quick fix. -Duane (25 years ago, 18-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Scott, Duane -- Thanks for the links and history... Yes, this is fairly easy to rectify. Some wires got crossed in the userinfo database (due to human error, my fault, sometime last August and not noticed until recently). Once in a blue moon, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) If it does not have an link to some site selling things or an offer it can't be traditional spam so I'd e-mail him back and ask. Sounds like a big misunderstanding, probably due to lack of language skills. /Tobbe (URL) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-02, to lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd and I are talking about it now. More later.. -Suz (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Can there be a group devoted to the doomsday scenario discussions? Every time a new set comes out (or is spotted in a fuzzy photograph) there is a hue and cry that follows the form: "There is an insufficient number of (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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<snipped> (...) I've gotten wacky emails that are out of touch with reality before. My response is simply to ignore them. Delete, move on. Don't answer, because if they're spoofed headers, they may be checking to see if you're "live." An archival (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In the past 24 hours I have received three e-mails from a Michael Chiaravalloti (theoliver50@hotmail.com) requesting that I send him, free of charge, several pieces from sets I have inventoried and posted to lugnet.db.inv. I am not entirely sure how (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-02, to lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.admin.general)
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Was there ever any decision on this issue? We now have a number of threads about a tool to create inventories in lugnet.db.inv. This may technically violate the charter for that group, but there doesn't seem to be any more appropriate place to post (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Darth Joules' alias (was: Re: Won't you give me one more try?)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Allan Bedford writes: [...] (...) I don't see an urgency to discuss the policy. (...) I didn't catch it. That's the only reason it went on. I certainly would have minded, the same as I do right now. Please don't equate (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Darth Joules' alias (was: Re: Won't you give me one more try?)
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Hi Richard! (...) To be frank (err, to be Shiri)... Aww, c'mon, gimme a break. Honestly, Richard; the one thing that makes lugnet so special and friendly and personal is the use of our real life names; the knowledge that people are here with honest (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) now there is little doubt. ;) Now that we know that he is breaking the ToS, we have to consider if it is worth bothering about (I can’t say I care). Given that he has two accounts here (one with his apparent real name and the other with his (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Dosent this mean that is real name is clearly understood. He has given it out freely on Lugnet, and therefore under the TOS is allowed to post using an alias Excerpt of the relevant section: unless your real name and identity is clearly understood, (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I noticed this as well. In the thread based on his original (first time to LUGNET) posting, it was pointed out to him the problem about a screen name vs. a real name. He dealt with it quickly and graciously. His real name, for all intents and (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) From this post, I think it is evident that it is indeed a pseudomyn (URL) more, he was told to post using his real name, changed and has reverted to the pseudonym. Definitely worth noting. -Duane (25 years ago, 15-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hmm, good point. Once while scanning the birth announcements in the local newspaper I came across a kid whom the parents had named Geordi La Forge. Maggie C. (25 years ago, 15-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Do we know it is not his real name? Scott A (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) This guy has been posting under that handle since August of 2001: (URL) the sudden urgency to point out this screen name issue? In fact, it was mentioned by at least two people in follow-ups to his original posting. No body seemed to mind back (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I would feel much less comfortable around Lugnet without knowing people's names - I guess I am a very visual person and a name gives me a peg to hang a mental image on of the people whose posts I am reading and to which I am replying. I am not (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yeah, I have to say I'm with Tanya on this. No offense to "Darth", but I'm less inclined to take seriously a post from a person going by a nickname anyway-- it's like people who name their pets after obscure literary characters and think (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Massive confusion: what difference does it make whether or not spammers have your full name? They'll cheerfully send you mail even if they don't know your name. (I should know---I'm currently getting spam at all my addresses (including the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Darth Joules' alias (was: Re: Won't you give me one more try?)
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Tanya: I am not disagreeing with your understanding of the TOS, but let me just throw in that I wish I had never used my real name to use lugnet. It's no real panic, but I am almost positive my full name and email address was collected from lugnet (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Darth Joules - I hate to be the voice of "the rules", but you are supposed to be using your real name, not an alias, unless that alias is understood to be a nickname or such and we all know what your real name is. I know this was discussed with you (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Good point. We'll make some adjustments. thanks. -Suz (25 years ago, 13-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I would like to request that the subgroups under the LEGO Media group be collapsed. There are only 170 messages in all the subgroups by my count and those could be moved to the main LEGO Media group. Also, many of the newer LEGO Media/LEGO Software (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I had email conversations with Jamie in early January 2002. He emailed me out of the blue after reading a post by me on RTL; we had a pending deal over a year ago that never got very far but he had some memory of it (I have since let the deal (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"James J. Trobaugh" <james@ngltc.org> wrote in message news:GrDHrI.KA9@lugnet.com... (...) page (...) Questions.... Any concrete answers, or even interesting theories, would be GREATLY appreciated. 1. Were his posting priveleges actually revoked, (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Did you successfully conclude the transaction? Jude FUT .loc.au (25 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Well...I had an order from him on brickbay not long before he ceased posting, but after not hearing from him for a while I sent a query asking if he was okay, and someone else responded on his email account. I won't fill in the gory details, (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I don't want to start up anything here, but were his posting priviledges revoked? From what he's written on RTL, it sounds like that is the case. (URL) don't remember any issues with his name attached... -Duane (25 years ago, 11-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I sent him a big box of Lego in December. (25 years ago, 11-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"James J. Trobaugh" <james@ngltc.org> wrote in message news:GrDHrI.KA9@lugnet.com... (...) I've had a few email exchanges with him. He approached me once and wanted to chat on ICQ, I explained that I had since removed the program. Seemed to be (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) We're working on the problem now. Thanks for pointing it out. -Suz (25 years ago, 11-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Funny things is that he writes about it at RTL as if someone else put that information up: (URL) he goes on to babble about some other LUNGET stuff: (URL) don't really get what's going on with this guy, I looked at past LUGNET post and couldn't (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) He obviously needs some help. I hope the Admins do something about this obvious violation of the ToS, not banning him, just the content. If anybody knows him personally, please make sure this cry for help gets answered. Jude (25 years ago, 11-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yikes, I agree. Doing a quick news search of his posts indicates he hasn't posted for months, and when he did, he seemed quite troubled. I wonder if anyone in Australia knows whatever happened to him? Maggie C. x-posted once to a relevant (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.au)
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I saw this from a post over on R.T.L. (URL) don't really understand what this guys problem is, but his membership page needs to be disabled or something. jt (25 years ago, 11-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well, most of the misplaced posts are castle-world, which has it's own group (I'd also prefer to not see the castle-world posts in lugnet.castle, or at least the IOM ones). I'd prefer to go to lugnet.castle.org.cw to see all of the (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That tends to provoke cries of "who are you, the LUGNET police?" and "why can't I, I'm just as right as you" (or "I wanted to post my sale announcement here because I didn't get any traffic from b-s-t"). Then we get the obligatory "Is LUGNET (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle.org, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Check. Much hassle to flip on and off, ne? Would just getting more serious about gently guiding misposts EACH time you see them help? (...) I thought they were tending towards better (although just a slight tend) at least in the last few (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle.org, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I agree that there's certainly room for more .castle.orgs. My suggestion is that the point at which someone wants to start such a suggestion, they just ask for lugnet.castle.org to open for posting again. The other option perhaps is to just (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle.org, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Once it went non postable, where would discussion of a competing (to CW) group and its early formative stage posts themselves go (prior to it getting its own castle.org.subgroup), should such arise? Mostly rhetorical, CW presumably has first (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle.org, lugnet.admin.general)
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I would say I am having this problem also. I don't know the content of the ads as I tend to just delete them on sight. Maybe I am wrong about where the leak in my information is coming from, but what caught my eye is my FULL name in some of the (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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I'm wondering if lugnet.castle.org should be made into a non-postable group. It seems to sport occasional Castle World postings which really don't belong since lugnet.castle.org.cw exists, and not much else. Frank "compartmentalized dork" Filz (25 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle.org, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Okay, now I really have to propose this idea that's been banging around in my head for the past few weeks. The motivations come, in part, from my work organizing and grading my EQMM collection[1] and from reading the LUGNET Plan[2]. I think (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That's certainly one way to do it (that'll work right now!), but I was thinking of having a picture that actually displayed on the member profile page. And as others have said, it'd be cool to have a minifig picture, too! ROSCO (25 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.people.newbie, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) DOH!!! Well, at least I know it's a good idea. ;) Steve (25 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) uhhhh... they are already there? (URL) an example) :) Dan (25 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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