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(...) Does anyone care to answer Kelly's original post? I'm curious. (URL) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well, if you have a business or premium PayPal account, then you can configure it to do an HTTP POST to a URL of your choosing, with the details of the payment. You can then write a CGI that listens to that URL and activates the account (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.org, Kelly McKiernan wrote: [snip the rest of what Kelly said] (...) As Jake explained LEGOfan (the concept, the reasons for it) to me, I think its a great idea. It coincides with much of what the WorldLUG concept posted, so I'm encouraged (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general) !
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Needless to say I love lugnet. I do desperately need my password reset. perhaps to my email address (or you can email me a different one as well). thank you and happy lego David Bail #154 (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well, if it comes down to it, there's a reason the Lugnet groups are all in a lugnet hierarchy. But as you may have gathered from my other posts, I'm strongly in favor of not duplicating discussion forums. (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Which part of the community, specifically? General LEGO fans? Webmasters of other LEGO-related fan web sites? (...) Why? Although I have been vocal in my opinion that Lugnet is not the perfect LEGO hub site, since it deals with a subset of (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general) !
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(...) Caling people profane names, and posting curse words and baiting others is not something that is looked kindly upon here on Lugnet - you may want to keep this in mind in the future. It is also not in the spirit of what we are here for. Posted (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It is. (...) As little as possible. We want to make the content accessible in as many different ways as possible, but preferably using existing protocols like NNTP, SMTP and NNTP. (...) You sound like a Jacob clone. :-) But it could be fun to (...) (21 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think any standards compliant browser should work for the website, oh, and IE. We do want to implement an NNTP interface as well as an SMTP, for as much content as possible. My personal philosophy is that javascript can be used only to (...) (21 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general) !
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(...) That sounds like mostly server-side stuff. Have you figured out yet what you are going to require from clients (users)? The reason I ask is that I'm an old-fashioned soul, and am unlikely to use discussion groups that are not NNTP-reachable, (...) (21 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Dan will start throwing heavy stuff across the Atlantic, if I claim it is vapor-ware at the moment, but it is at least not in a usable state yet. Basically (and possibly not quite correctly) it is a content management system with access (...) (21 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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[ adding .general, .admin.general, follow-up to .admin.general ] (...) Actually: I've been worried about this for a very long time, ever since back when I was worried that this fancy new Lugnet thing would kill RTL. [*] So, I've asked Todd for (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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(...) [Okay, but leaving .general and putting in .admin.general] (...) Which I'm a big fan of. What software, and how far along is it? (...) Also good! [snip] (...) So, sounds like you intend to duplicate a lot of the functionality of Lugnet. Have (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Have you considered switching to something like kagi.com? I haven't used them as a supplier, but I have as a customer, and I've gotten automated stuff from there before. And they seem to suck less than Paypal. (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Zing! "Well played" as Sandlin would say. (...) D'Oh! Tom, are you still left hanging? As far as I'm aware, all the pending applications are processed up through I think Tuesday (two days ago). Of course, I may be unaware (ignorant!) of (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) In what ways do we not have that forum with Lugnet? Although I use the NNTP interface, I find the web interface to be one of the best of any www-discussion forum out there. *Especially* when it comes to threads. [followup-to .general and (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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"Fredrik Glöckner" <fredrigl@math.uio.no> wrote in message news:m3r7x26052.fsf@...ydomain... (...) In Outlook it looks like an attachment, and it shows it in the end of the message as a little smiley picture. (esmile.gif) /Joakim (21 years ago, 11-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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As far as I can see, the article you're refering do does not have an attachement in the MIME sense of the word. Rather, it just has some binary uuencoded "garbage" added to the end of the message. Your client may be trying to help you by (...) (21 years ago, 10-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Jocke" <terje029SPAMBLOCK@xpress.se> wrote in message news:HspKnI.1xqv@lugnet.com... (...) Is this group dead? =) /J (21 years ago, 10-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I don't think racers really belong in Duplo ;) seriously tho (and don't quote me here) but the policy tends to be product lines get a discussion group as a matter of course Quatro isn't Duplo, it isn't Primo it is an entirely new system. The policy (...) (21 years ago, 9-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think you're using the words "ridiculous" and "seriously wrong" a little lightly.... (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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So Quatro got its newsgroup, but RACERS still doesn't? This is ridiculous. Why not put it under Duplo? Something is seriously wrong here. When I asked for a Racers newsgroup, many people agreed. Racers is a much more popular theme among adults than (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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Odd.. I have never seen attachments in messages before? (URL) use Outlook to read Lugnet) Is something broken on the server or is it possible to post attachments nowadays? /Joakim (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Sorry to have to ask, but I lost all my cookies - can I have a new passowrd e-mailed to me please. I need to update my set lists as people want to buy things that I don't have for sale anymore! (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hey, this same thing just happened to the Washington Post, so I guess Todd's in good company here. See (URL) (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well, I do not say this much, but thank you for the heads-up, though I suspected that something was indeed wrong in here. I am glad that it was not me being stopped, though. I have never said anything wrong in here...at least, when I was (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jan-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Just to clerify a few things. I posted the answer quite late (some days later), I recall thinking, that it was too late for this thread, but what... I have sometimes seen, that the confirmation mail cames app 24 hours later, so I did not think (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jan-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm slightly an expert, and generally, things like this don't go off right on their expiration date -- it's to the registrar's benefit to hold on to it a little while because it's better for you to renew with them than for the domain to go (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jan-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Never said it was outside the realm of possibility. But the nameserver caches were all working fine, till yesterday, that's how things work, the flush order doesn't go out till a week after the expiry. Also, there are a lot of people that use (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jan-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yes. I also happen to remember that Todd reported the DNS registry as expiring on the 18th. _One_day_ before the original post in this thread. I'm not an expert, but I wouldn't put it outside the realm of possibility that the DNS registration (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jan-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Todd, I checked internic's whois database when Lugnet was down, and it had an expiry date of 17 jan 2005. It has since been updated, but I'd definitely query Network Solutions about this. (URL) (22 years ago, 27-Jan-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) reading all of admin.general, so you needn't (mis)quote it back to me, and further, I read what Todd says (in his posts here, and in his emails to me when we occasionally correspond about things) pretty carefully...(1) The outage happened (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jan-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) "You may have been able to see and access the website but unable to post; this is because the server, internally, needs to be able to look up its own IP address for various functions, and this was failing." That was part of Todd's post (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jan-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) While LUGNET WAS down, but is back up now, I didn't think the outage would have impacted confirmation mails. It's a Todd question, I think. XFUT admin.general so he sees it. You might follow up with an email directly to him as well if there's (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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My apologies to everyone who was unable to reach the server for the better part of the past day. I had thought the lugnet.com domain had been renewed through 2005, but it actually was up for renewal this year, with expiry on January 18. (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce) !!
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(...) Oh, I dunno. It seems related to robotics to me! More seriously, this sort of calls the "no cancel without explicit permission" policy into question a bit. We theoretically need to get Ahmed's permission... :-) and with that 35 mill he's got (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jan-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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23 Jan 04 My ISP is dropping the 'startrek.net' server, so my e-mail address will be changing. I've changed it to tw0nst3r@earthlink.net on my Lugnet profile, but it still comes up in message replies '@startrek.net'. Could I ask to please have my (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jan-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) You might wanna cancel this post. I guess it's a drawback of having mailing list portals. ROSCO (22 years ago, 24-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Todd, Any chance that you could get around to resetting mine, too? Jonathan originally tagged onto my request back on November 26th but it seems mine got missed (of course Jonathan has been much more persistant then me). My # is 2013. -Matt- (22 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Just testing... (22 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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