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(...) Yup. I would also add that creating a .technic.racers subgroup is a BAD idea - Racers is in no way a subtheme of Technic, as many sets have nothing to do with Technic. (22 years ago, 6-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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FUT: lugnet.technic "Ray Sanders" <rsanders@svic.net> wrote in message news:HpGEq9.237B@lugnet.com... (...) Actually, it raises the question. Begging the question would be like saying "When is Lego going to stop retiring themes?!?" or "When did you (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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FUT: lugnet.admin.suggestions I have to agree. I just discussed something similar with the folks over at brickset.com - eventually they agreed. Even though it started as a subset of technic, it has expanded and is truly it's own Lego theme. Now all (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) into a 'theme' of it's own based on the scale of the figs. I personally don't have a preference for or against a 'Racers' newsgroup, but this thread led me to this interesting minifig mulling. Jeff (22 years ago, 6-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Hey, wow, you know you are right! Our bad. ;) e (22 years ago, 6-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Even though Bionicle had the 'Technic' label once, it still has its own newsgroup here. Plus most of the Racers sets are in no way Technic as pointed out in another post in this thread. So IMHO 'Racers' MORE than deserves its own newsgroup. (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) I would say the answer is "no"... (URL) seems like they're just being more selective with using that title. -Paul D. (22 years ago, 6-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) The Technic name still exists on the boxes of 2003 sets such as 8454, 8455, 8453, 8438 etc. Now, if ALL Racers sets were Technic flavored, there would be no point in having a separate newsgroup (just as there is no point to have a World City (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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(...) Maybe. I think 'Racers' is a branding thing that LEGO has choosen to do. To explain, sometime around the beginning of the 2002 set year, LEGO deleted the Technic moniker from most (possibly all) set boxes. Various Bionicle sets, which had (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Is there any way I could get a reset before 2004? Please? (22 years ago, 6-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Granted, many sets of theme are Technic flavored (those with mostly technic parts), and many are slighly Town flavored (those with a minifig, pull back motor and mostly bricks/plates). But the theme still hasn't got its own LUGNET newsgroup, and (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions) !
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(...) Thomas Garrison and I are data base administrators. Not sure who the others are. I believe there are other areas of administration that people other than Todd have. Frank (22 years ago, 5-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) From the top of my head and not meant to be an exhaustive list (I agree that a consolidated list of people/things would be good) There are no moderators per se, because LUGNET is not a moderated system, posts only get cancelled (barring (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Is there a page, list or anything that will tell us who is in charge of the different aspects of Lugnet, and what they can do? I know Todd has been looking to delegate some duties here, and I have no idea if he has or has not, and if he has then to (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hey Kevin, Thanks for the note--and no, I hadn't tried that, because of precisely what you mentioned. I had expected that there would be another way to do it but apparently there isn't! I must think over this. best LFB (22 years ago, 5-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think it would be instructive for you and everyone else that is concerned about this matter (all 3 of you :-) ) to review Todd's original (URL) post> especially the last sentence: "However, in the process I expect you in turn to respect the (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) wisdom? (...) You know, I've been wondering the same thing for about 2 weeks now. He must be on Ridilin or something... I have never seen such straight, to the point, and tactful posts from him before! I had always assumed he was one of the (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hear Hear! Dave K -'Tis amazing, inn't it that Scott has become the voice of rationale and wisdom? :) (22 years ago, 4-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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I'm disappointed that MC's constructive post has been used as and excuse for axe grinding by the usual suspects. Scott A (22 years ago, 4-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) Why must the painfully obvious constantly be pointed out to you? A. Because this is the only newsgroup I can currently reply to. B. Because it *IS* an administrative matter. But while we are here... Why the devil does it matter to you or Lar? (...) (22 years ago, 4-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Richard Marchetti wrote: (snip) (...) "Letter of the TOS"? Really. Tell me how exactly your post is anywhere near on topic for .admin. Grow up. JOHN (22 years ago, 4-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I completely agree he was rabble rousing and fully aware of it. Also arguably as egregious with its "in your face" attitude was his flaunting the fact that he was posting with a dead email address and not providing a good one. But I saw no (...) (22 years ago, 4-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) That's pretty funny coming from you, Lar. You are absolutely the biggest baby in this sandbox and I think everyone knows that fact -- you have stated as much to me via private emails in the past. Sadly, neither this site nor real life is a (...) (22 years ago, 4-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) I would vigorously dispute that. In fact I already have, and the person I disputed them with was satisfied that what I was getting at was that Richard acknowledge that he erred, acknowledge that he doesn't get a pass because he's an Angry (...) (22 years ago, 4-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) Hop Frog cannot answer you because he has been banned. BTW, about the ban... what I would have suggested is a blanket ban with a definite time frame. He obviously posted knowing full well he was in violation of the TOS so a ban is in order. (...) (22 years ago, 4-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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Mr L F Braun wrote in message ... (...) Lindsay, you may already have done this, but I think you need to change it on this page: (URL) done, LUGNET should send you confirmation message that it has made the change, but when I did this a few weeks ago (...) (22 years ago, 3-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi Todd (and others!) I'm having a bit of trouble making a change to the email address that shows up in postings--the email appearing now is totally spammed to heck and also may be wiped out at any time by Michigan State. I changed it in my (...) (22 years ago, 3-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I got this too.... and a reminder 24 hours later.... I just assumed it was e-mail harvesting. ;) (...) Good idea. Scott A Have you had a look at Arthurs Seat Yet? (2 URLs) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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In lugnet.market.auction, Alan Findlay wrote: ... (...) ... There's several services now in effect that block e-mail that is computer generated (aka spam) as opposed to human generated. The way these services work is they reply to all incoming (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi, I'd like to request a new group under trains.org for a new LEGO train club, M>ltc. I don't know if it's possible to use special characters in group names, if not, please just name it Mltc (note only the M is capitalised). This is for the (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.trains.org)
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Member ID is #186, please reset my password and send email to me at ulringmc@columbus.rr.com thanks, mcu (22 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I've tried six times now, but anytime I try to post in lugnet.space the "Message Awaiting Authentication" message never reaches my inbox. If I post to any other newsgroup it works! I can't figure it out. I haven't been using LUGNET for a while, did (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Me too! Member #1130 (22 years ago, 27-Nov-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) If you'd like an article that you authored cancelled and you are unable to do it yourself because it was web or mail posted, or for whatever other reason, send a note requesting the cancel to the LUGNET admins, or to Frank Filz, or to myself (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-03, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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Well, it seems I must also join the throng of users who need passwords set. I enrolled and got a member ID, 2013, but was never given the chance to establish a password during enrollment. Further, I never recieved any info in the two communications (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) By my calculation, it's been a wasteland since November 12, 1999. Not coincidentally, LUGNET really started shaping up around November 5, 1999. I wonder if there's a connection... Dave! FUT OT.fun because I'm kind of just goofing off (22 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but I suspect RTL is more of a "wasteland" now than it ever was, at least in my view, based on my (and I suspect a lot of other people's views as well). (I say suspect because I haven't carried out an (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.admin.general)
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I'm going to answer to some of the things that were raised by others over the weekend... On Todd's banning me from Lugnet: Todd has not contacted me privately, indeed he is unable to do so because I'm not going to publish new contact information (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) It's a cookie thing, I think. If you are required to check the TOS every time posting as a member, or required to enter your posting info every time, try resumbitting your posting set up while logged in as a member. James (22 years ago, 23-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Chris Phillips wrote: signed in as a member, you explictly check once in a blue moon) (...) I don't *think* I do, but maybe there are some differences, I'll have to ask Todd. (...) That's really strange because I'm not (...) (22 years ago, 23-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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