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What I like best about Suzanne's design over some of the other proposed here, is the absence of a visual logo fest. Hower great looking each (community) logo can be, twenty graphically unrelated logo's on one page make an incoherent design and are (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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Chats with people at BrickFest PDX last weekend got me thinking a lot more about LUGNET and its role in the community. I've bounced some of my thoughts off of various people (including three people from LEGO) and responses varied from positive to (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.lego.direct, FTX) !!
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(...) Very true, but I've found that simply specifying the correct doctype for pages works like magic, at least on modern browsers: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "(URL) Using this works amazingly well - the results (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I know my opinion doesn't count for much but I have to say I really like the layout and feel of this. It’s simple, yet it gets the job done. With some slight updating to fit all of the new great sites out there I believe this would work well. (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) (URL) --Todd (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX) !
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(...) Do you have the link to Suzanne's concept new homepage handy? -Tim (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Well, new homepage, anyway. (...) (1) All the talk last week about WorldLUG and LEGOFan. (2) Abner Finley reminded me at BrickFest PDX. (...) Yes, definitely. Suzanne will alsohave constructive comments to make as things get closer. --Todd (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Ya, or rather it worked too well. It was actually used quite a bit, but it saw almost immediate abuse when people discovered that they could mark posts as zero from people they didn't like, just to be mean. Internally, it was represented by a (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) These are pretty much the improvements I would like to see on the LUGNET homepage. I think adding in some sort of blog feature would allow moderators/curators to easily post content to the homepage (disclaimer: I don't know anything about how (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I agree: Don't Do That. The web isn't a brochure-display mechanism. (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Ow, my brain! In seriousness, one of the problems with this design is difficulty of expansion. If some new vital site comes out, where does it fit in? (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) If I remember right, the initial news rating system *was* 0-10, and it didn't work very well. Too many options, too much work. (...) I'm not sure this is a good thing. It can lead to a sort of "clique" of Famous Posters and interesting things (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) (snip) (...) I agree. (...) Great idea! I could help with the translation to French. (more seriously than I did for "schleim" at PDX with John Neal! ;D) (...) That would be interesting. (...) Pierre (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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No, the first thing a first-time visitor sees should tell something about the available places to go -- not display only icons. Icons are not language, they are little puzzles that you have to figure out. (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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Well, this looks really "busy" and crowded. Erik Bush (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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Hey, WOW! A new LUGNET site! :> This is GREAT. I like the one that is hear but a change can be good! Out of curiosity, what brought upon these interesting thoughts of changing the site? I design websites often, well actually almost everyday I am (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I agree with Gary, except for one big thing. Precise CSS positioning that's cross-browser compatible (IE, Mozilla, Opera, Netscape, Mac) is a pain royalé, sitting right next to impossible. I've done it and it's nuts. Unless you don't care if (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I don't think that's off-topic at all, Gary. Kind of a side-topic, but definitely an important consideration. The more that can be done via CSS instead of dynamic content on the server, too, the better. --Todd (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) It's funny you should mention that. We have the subdomain (URL) my.lugnet.com> with the intention of doing something like this at some point. Suz and I talked about replacing the "Sign In" key in the toolbar with a minifig head that links to (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) It may be off topic, but I think it would be very cool if the site was designed using CSS layout, i.e. no nested tables. A great example site is: (URL) would make site development very straightforward, and allow people to switch look and feels (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Ya, exactly! Some kind of attributes grid or "help me locate" or "what's out there" layout is needed. (...) Excellent, excellent, excellent idea. Yes! The homepage ought to have several languages available. (...) That could be something for (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Ya, that's gotta stay. (...) It may not be broken to you, who are familiar with it and have been using it for years...but it's been pointed out by many that it can be quite confusing for first-time visitors. (...) Well, LUGNET was created to (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Wow, cool, I didn't know that! --Todd (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote: SNIP (...) SNIP (...) well, it's not ALL a complete redesign, as i like the easy spotlight bar on the left-the rest is brand spankin new. This hexagonal brick design was originally going to be my webpage (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Read those two sentences again. Someone already chooses them. Why not just grab two or three at random from that much smaller selection? Good idea though. It'd be good to see a parade of excellent models there on the homepage. (...) Another (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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I've been advised that warning signs of an imminent drive failure on the lugnet system have been noticed. To prevent and/or minimize data loss*, an immediate drive swap is planned. This will require the server to be rebooted both before and (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote: <schnipp> (...) <schnapp> (...) I'd rather like to see some more add-ons to the LUGNET newsgroups and a new frontpage than a complete redesign. The design of the newsgroups is excellent in both ways: (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) ZING! (22 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I'm sorry to reply to my own post, but I forgot to add that CLSotW was a key player in the end of my dark ages (along with cheap promotional sets at Shell gas stations). Seeing all of these great creations by AFOLs made me want to dig my (...) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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A couple of ideas: 1. Classic-castle and FBTB both prominently feature admin-generated announcements on the front pages that are updated every day or so--new set announcments, contests, fests, etc (presumably other sites, too, these are just the (...) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote: (snirp) (...) (snorp) (...) Whatever you do, don't replace the super-awesome Escheristic logo. Further, I'll voice my opinion that the homepage looks just fine and a complete overhaul isn't going to bring (...) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Hi all, I can't offer my html knowledge - it's only poor. But I like to suggest some ideas following up Todd's ideas. An umbrella on a very first level might really be helpful. So users might got the chance to go their way while starting at (...) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) snip (...) Besides, Susan Rich Green has apologized about this subject on many occassions for the Membership packetts no going as originally envisioned. Give them a break, I have a gut feeling that many of us Lugnetters have forgiven them as (...) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) While we're on this topic: To this day I have not become a member because I simply can't get past having to enter my postal address into the enrollment form for LUGNET (presumably to get the mythical membership packet). I do not like to give (...) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) Change is good sometimes - and seeing that LUGNET hasn't had any major aesthetic changes in a while, perhaps it's time to "freshen up." I have a poor imagination when it comes to dreaming up creative new web appearances, but I know my share of (...) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Having a hot topics module would be a great addition. Also, the LUGNET Traffic page (link at the top right corner) shows you which groups are hot, but not which topics are hot. The Top Stories is determined using the (member) Spotlight feature (...) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) We've got something kind of like that over at BZPower too... one of the features that the members really seem to like is "Today's Hot Topics" on the front page. It links to the most posted-in threads of the last 24 hours, updated hourly. There (...) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) What Lugnet should *really* do is keep track of read and unread posts, like a proper newsreader. Even better than a calendar. But that's a major change that's going to take a while to get implemented. Not that there's anything wrong with the (...) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) I don't get it. Does Legofan.net have better membership packets? (22 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) This has been on my list for awhile, I guess I'll speak up... BL has a cool feature for the discussion forum. It has a calender showing posts by date: (URL) I'm out of town for a weekend, it makes it very easy to pick up where I left off. (...) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I've been a 'member' for a while and I couldn't give a rip for a 'packet'. The pros of LUGNET by far outweigh the "at the time was a good idea but now that it's only Todd and time marches on so, eh, whatrya gonna do?" missing membership (...) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Oh please. Todd asked for some constructive input and volunteers to help improve on LUGNET, and you totally sidestep the point of his post and use this as an opportunity to take a pot shot at it. If you want to point out problems, I for one (...) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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So what was all this about? (URL) have two words to explain why some people are getting disatisfied with LUGNET: "membership packet" (22 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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Someone brought this up at BrickFest PDX and others agreed it would be an excellent idea: Rather than mainly linking to internal LUGNET resources, the first thing someone should see when they visit the LUGNET homepage is iconic links to other major (...) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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(...) all. And of course, there's other kinds of spam as well. I don't think the mailing list link should be severed, but it'd be nice if the list had tighter policies. (22 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) The Nigerian scam ring was broken up in Amsterdam last month: (URL) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That's certainly a plan! This is the second such spam in as many days I think. I'd like to suggest that the link between LUGNET and the external mailing list be reconsidered, or that the maintainers of the external list not allow unvalidated (...) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) Does anyone care to answer Kelly's original post? I'm curious. (URL) (22 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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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 (22 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. (22 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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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, (...) (22 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 (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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. (22 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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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 (22 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 (...) (22 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 (22 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 (...) (22 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.... (22 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 (...) (22 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 (22 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! (22 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) (22 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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(...) yes that does help,thanks (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Bumping is replying to a post so that the topic moves back up the list of topics being discussed. It tends to be more prevalent on discussion group systems that have relatively few discussion areas and which show topics in the areas in reverse (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Huh? What? The GM rubs his eyes and yawns as if awoken from stasis. ;-) (URL) Mediator Hendo>> (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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I fell really stupid to ask, but what is bumping? (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) Good suggestions, Allister. Thanks. -Grand Admiral .space Curator (URL) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) Indeed. On the other hand, the discussion that has ensued as a result of your initial post hasn't done many favours to the signal to noise ration either. My feeling is that while JHK knew bumping was frowned upon, I didn't get the impression (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) snip (...) snip (...) snip (...) This is SO condesending it demands to be ignored. (...) How odd. I normally find myself more on the side of the bumper and feel that the admonisher is being harsh. But this time, I'm with Mark all the way. JHK (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Okay, okay, I get it now. Bumbing isn't cool. I was just in a kind of bad mood at the time, I guess. (...) Yeah, what I DONT want most is for any conlict to grow up here in .space. (...) Thanks, GM! -JHK (22 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) Joe: If you want, you can also send notes to Frank or myself, we can change curatorships too. A note from Felix (copying you) at this point would clearly document the desired transition. The way your post reads, it could be leaving the (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, lugnet.admin.curators, lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.space, Zac Soden wrote: (snip) (...) Which is precisely why I used the blunt tone with JHK. He's been around and knows the ropes, so I figured he could handle a terse reply. I think he's generally one of the most "grown up" younger spacers (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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In lugnet.space, Mark Sandlin wrote: snip (...) Okey dokey, well we've straightened out that bumping posts is not real cool. I'm sorry that I didn't explain the maturity thing the right way - I didn't intend for it to be insulting. I simply meant (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) I know mine are... :D --SteveR (22 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.general)
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