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(...) Hey, there's plenty of oil and breading. But seriously, names are important. (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) I think we have bigger fish to fry w/r/t LUGNET than moving it to .org. That's a decision we can make later, once the new infrastructure for maintaining LUGNET is in place. -Tim (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Moving to lugnet.org is a great idea. However, I think that making lugnet.com a beta site could be confusing -- old links would get broken, and people who are just guessing might pick .com. I think lugnet.com links should eventually (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Todd - I think it would be a good idea to set up a wish list for new LUGNET features and the LUGNET homepage, so we can look at them concisely, and prioritize them. Then we won't have to look through big threads to find all of the suggestions. (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Exactly. (...) I'm up in the air about keeping 'Top Stories' on the main page of LUGNET. Perhaps it should stay, and have a bit less prominent position. What I'd *really* like to see is a magazine-style news posting system where articles (not (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Hey Todd, This sounds great! Along with all of the ideas being discussed in the other thread, it sounds like we are in for some real growth here. These will also address many of the issues raised in the legofan.net thread. (...) This is (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, FTX)
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(...) I have used this feature, and I use (URL) MOCPages>. I would like to see LUGNET offer something more substantial such as MOCpages, or perhaps Sean and Todd could morph something.... JOHN (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Okay, I'm an idiot. There's a link right there on the front page to "Build your own web pages". That said, however, this is still a largely unused feature of LUGNET. Bruce (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Agreed. In the legofan.net thread there were several posts that sounded offended that anyone would consider another location (posts positing LUGnet as "THE" home for on-line LEGOdom, which ignored other huge sites, or people arguing that other (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) This is in reply to the new site design and take lugnet to a new level post While the new site is being developed and tested, place it at lugnet.org once it is finalized .org will become the "official" site. This is consistant with developing (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Based on experience, it'd be nice if the words could be made out of actual displayed on top of the brick image (which could be made in multiple parts to accomplish this easier), both to avoid contributing to the Pictures of Text plague and (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Big honkin monster kudos to Todd le Man for starting this transition! Way to go, Todd! -Paul (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, FTX)
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(...) I agree. This is one of the problems with the "busy"-ness that you mentioned in Jeff's suggestion: (URL) thing I really like from Jeff's suggested graphic is the use of 1x6 bricks as link buttons. I know, this is also used elsewhere, e.g.: (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Which could very easily be changed to send the correct Location redirect header, so that it would be completely invisible to the user... --Bram (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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"Andrew Allan" <aallan@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message news:HtDvsD.qBG@lugnet.com... (...) Not in my book... JavaScript seems to cause problems in the browsers I tend to use (somewhat old versions of Netscape and MSIE - perhaps I should upgrade, (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) I think this makes sense for non members only. Usually, the members already know what they're looking for, so according to their preferences, they should get the best page. That means page with the stuff they like and few extraordinary tidbids (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Tobbe Arnesson wrote: <snip> (...) Looks like the need has gone missing: (URL) played Todd! /Tobbe (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Well played:) It takes a good person to realize when they need to open up a project that was theirs to start with. (...) As Communications Officer to SciBrick, I'm ready to help out in whatever way I can toward establishing a closer (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, FTX)
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(...) Thank you so much Todd! In recent discussions about the LEGO Fan .net website, I defended the point that people not happy with the current state of LUGNET should work to improve it instead of replacing it. Now, with this transition, you give (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org)
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(...) Heres my Idea! I know it doesnt look much different but I made it in paint so you cant do much more than what I have already done ;-) -- Jeff (URL) The small "MY LUGNET" lego smiley referrs to this post (URL) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Heres my Idea! I know it doesnt look much different but I made it in paint so you cant do much more than what I have already done ;-) -- Jeff (URL) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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Wow. The first thing that springs to my mind is "Nooo!! If it ain't broke don't fix it! LUGNET is functioning just fine!"...but with a committee like you've chosen I know everything will work out dandy. And I heartily echo Ralph's words (except the (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, FTX)
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(...) Heres my Idea! I know it doesnt look much different but I made it in paint so you cant do much more than what I have already done ;-) (URL) -- Jeff (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) <snip> (...) Ditto! Right down to the 'how can we help' bit. And again, anything that gets Suz back into the limelite I'm in favour of :) Dave K (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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<snip> (...) <snip> Todd, Let me be on of the first people on the bandwagon of congratulations on the work you and Suzanne have done over the past 5 or 6 years. Even if I never did get my membership package :-) I will continue to view Lugnet as the (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Oh, some sort of "Display random past pick" would be cool! Of course this suggests some work to keep the database of sites up to date or disabling dead sites. /T (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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Hi! Some quick thoughts; - Something on the mainpage must keep changing, todays system with hot posts is good. A poll might do. - Better info on how to start posting vs. becomming a member. I know Todd had some thoughts on this earlier that sounded (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) You are right. The current LUGNET site is very LSI friendly. I enjoy coming to this website not just because of its content but also because I don't have to wait five minutes for a page to load unlike the LEGO site. (...) Again you are right. (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Sorry, don't want to troll/flame, but I wouldn't call 1000steine 'European'. German, yes. European, no. Althought I'm living in the neighborhood, I can't grok a word from that site. That's why I support WorldLUG/LEGOFan stuff, they aim (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.de)
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(...) Echoing the above, to me the current design of Lugnet is very LSI friendly and logically laid out. In my opinion this makes Lugnet one of the great sites (similar to Yahoo and Google) and I'm by no means unique in my opinion. Lugnet's greatest (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) How about an universal umbrella page which can be shared by all sites involved? A common logo (A Fabuland umbrella, perhaps?), available for all, linking either to a central page or a current copy on the local sites' server, which in turn (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.de)
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(...) I agree. I don't know exactly how easy the procedures are in the meantime, but to register a few years ago was somehow odd for me :-) Translations are needed, at least for a "How-To-Post"-Site. As for German, I know that there were offers to (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.de, FTX)
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(...) Looks sharp! I would be quite pleased with this design, especially if "Top Stories" were listed at the bottom of the page. That's the feature I use most. A minor tweak I would make would be to list the links at the beginning of each bullet (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 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. (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) (URL) --Todd (21 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 (21 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 (21 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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 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. (21 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? (21 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 (...) (21 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 (21 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. (21 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 (21 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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 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 (21 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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 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: (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) ZING! (21 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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 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? (21 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. (...) (21 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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 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" (21 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 (...) (21 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. (21 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) (21 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 (...) (21 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) (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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| | 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 (...) (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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| | Re: Quatro newsgroup, but no Racers newsgroup?
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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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