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(...) I agree with Diedre here. Eric - while the duplo joke is funny to you and your friends, and while it can be used as a cute joke once in a while among the same, please reconsider FUT'ing Duplo and using this joke when expressing sincere (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-04, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: 419 scammer in .robotics
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(...) What are 419s? "Nigerian Lockbox" is how I've always known that scam and its variants. This is not the first time this has happened. (you need to get out more, I guess...) It's due to the gateway with an external mailing list, which does not (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: From the mouth of babes and just what is going on!?
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Please don't redirect irrelevant threads to .duplo. I don't think this is an appropriate way to handle behaviour that you presumably consider childish. I've cross-posted this to admin.general as this has happened before eg (URL) Would you please (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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Todd- Someone's been posting 419s via email in the .robotics newsgroup. I don't know why, or how, except that I know its subscription works differently than the rest of LUGNET. But I thought I'd flag it for you. Anyways, that's a first for me, 419 (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.lego, Marc Nelson, Jr. wrote: [Much snippage] (...) Discuss colors, great. It's the force and vitriol with which it's being done, in my view. I keep up with many AFOLs across the whole community on a daily basis, and I think 95% told me (...) (21 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | lugnet.parts hierarchy (was Re: New Group Suggestions
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(...) Posting a FUT to this older suggestion partly because it's still a good idea and partly to see if so doing will get Rob to stop threadjacking every new group suggestion or announcement to point out what a good idea it is... :-) For starters (...) (21 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Update on the Update?
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(...) We might have an update to post later this week -- depends how it goes this week. There may be some upcoming expansion of curator roles, also depending on how things go this week. --Todd (21 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Update on the Update?
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I'd just like to know if there is an update on the re-structuring of Lugnet? And also to give a vow of thanks to Todd and everyone else out there working hard for the betterment of us all. -Lenny (21 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Membership application apology
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Thanks Todd. Better late than never. Arjan. (21 years ago, 9-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Membership application apology
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I've been remiss in my duties lately in processing membership applications, and for that I humbly apologize to all who have been stuck waiting, especially those who wrote to complain and received no personal reply. I believe everyone who has paid (...) (21 years ago, 9-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: paid fee 3 months ago, still waiting to become member!!
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(...) No account for me either, should either disable applications and refund the money or process the membership applications. I'm not happy about no info on whats going on either. (21 years ago, 8-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Announcing new Legend!
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(...) Jake has told me, and I believe he's told the group here on LUGNET, that Consumer Affairs *does* track this information and *does* relay it to the appropriate department. But, I suppose that might not be good enough for people who "can never (...) (21 years ago, 8-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: paid fee 3 months ago, still waiting to become member!!
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Me too.. but not an explanation or apology for the long wait. I dont care about the lousy 10 dollars, this is just no way to treat people. I dont understand why becoming a member has to take this long. If Todd or whoever deals with these things is (...) (21 years ago, 7-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: paid fee 3 months ago, still waiting to become member!!
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(...) I just have received my confirmation # THANKS !!! (21 years ago, 7-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: paid fee 3 months ago, still waiting to become member!!
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(...) Same problem ! Sent my payment middle of march ... I'm thinking to ask a refund request a Paypal ! (21 years ago, 7-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | paid fee 3 months ago, still waiting to become member!!
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This is getting a little ridiculous. Paid the membership fee on February 11th and still havent heard a thing from Lugnet. Sent 3 e-mails to different addresses, no reply at all. What the #%$! is going on here? Arjan. (21 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: disk failure [padding,padding,padding,padding,padding,padding]
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(...) Hello?? <Waves hands, jumps up and down.> This (automatically generated) post (URL) nuts. Note that 10020 is not a recently-added set, and 1092 was recently added but is not noted. Also, News-by-Mail Subscriptions have not been posted since (...) (21 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Color Change - Final Update
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(...) True, but the only two things we've heard so far were that people were complaining that those three colors didn't "match" the rest of the color pallete, and that focus groups agreed. Not only is the idea that the old grey/brown colors match (...) (21 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Suggestion for thread tree viewing
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At the moment, threads of more than 100 postings suppress the tree of blue/maroon squares, which is very helpful for navigating. Is the format fixed, or could very large threads split themselves, to cut off large branches (of more than 5 or 10 (...) (21 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Just because you and some others don't accept that Marketing thought it was a good idea to change the colors doesn't make it not the "real reason". (...) I'm sure that some people within the company thought it was a bad idea. But those people (...) (21 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: disk failure
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(...) What it SHOULD be saying is the standard "server is busy due to heavy load, try again later" message and Todd has indicated he's fixed/changed it... presumably he'll post about it here soon. (21 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: disk failure
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In lugnet.admin.general, Dave Schuler wrote: (snip) It's not just you, Dave! I got this when trying to post, then a bit later, when trying to view a random post in the thread. It's pretty weird. I sent a note to Todd about it, so hopefully he'll (...) (21 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: disk failure
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(...) I don't know if this is of any significance, but while posting a stunningly witty message in the "Color Change/Final Answer" thread, I hit the PREVIEW button and wound up on a screen with this information: 6:30pm EST Wed 28 Apr 2004 Data (...) (21 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Medieval Sea Battles
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(...) I have been thinking about adding ship / sea warfare to my game Brik Battles: Medieval Warfare. I would be interested in any imput / colaboration Please check out the site. www.brikbattles.com Thanks, -- Ramus (21 years ago, 4-May-04, to lugnet.games, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: disk failure
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(...) This post (URL) that there were no LUGNET Guide updates on Wednesday. That is wrong. For example, (URL) added to the Guide. Additionally, set 7918 is named "{Green Basketball Player}" but a search of the LUGNET Guide for "basketball" does not (...) (21 years ago, 29-Apr-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: disk failure
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(...) That must've been the disk in the process of dying... Enough stuff cached in RAM to run and provide basic functionality, but not enough to handle the non-constantly-accessed functions. Thanks for the data points. --Todd (21 years ago, 28-Apr-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: disk failure
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(...) I noticed Lugnet was down for a while at about 5:00ish GMT. When it came back up there was no traffic on the traffic page, i.e. no reported posting, even for the last 7 days, everthing else seemed to work as far as I tested it. I didn't (...) (21 years ago, 28-Apr-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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The LUGNET production server (still the older server, hosted at Pair Networks) suffered a disk failure today at what appears to be, according to the logs, 11:30am EST. The disk has been replaced, data restored, and we seem to be set back about 8 (...) (21 years ago, 28-Apr-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Re: password for lugnet
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(...) FUT to admin.general ROSCO (21 years ago, 27-Apr-04, to lugnet.people.newbie, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Trains logo - need scan
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(...) I haven't found the first one bearing the steam engine silhouette, but the second logo, although with noticeably larger lettering, is available near the top left corner of Lugnet's Train news page: (URL) to me this logo seems to be a (...) (21 years ago, 26-Apr-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains)
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| | Trains logo - need scan
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Does anyone have a nice high quality scan of the Lego Trains logo? In particular - I'm looking for the logo that appears in the upper left of this page: (URL) the more common: (URL) help with this is appreciated. I'm doing some re-organizing for my (...) (21 years ago, 26-Apr-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New Group Suggestions
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(...) Phew! I wouldn't know where to post! lugnet.parts.floccin...lification for making other parts feel useless? How about lugnet.parts.mod for modified parts lugnet.parts.mold for molded ones lugnet.parts.quality for TLC parts quality whinges (...) (21 years ago, 24-Apr-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Changing profile info?
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Hello, I am in the process of changing some profile stuff about myself that there is currently no way to change through the Lugnet "edit profile" window. I am wondering if I could have this done for me if I explain it privately to an admin, or if I (...) (21 years ago, 22-Apr-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: New Group Suggestions
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(...) expand mod (...) Hey, lugnet.parts.wanted is a good one! I don't know about .modified though. People may confuse that with (example: 1x1 brick modified with handle) official elements. How about: .modify .modding .modifying .customize (...) (21 years ago, 22-Apr-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: New Group Suggestions
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(...) I would put new elements in lugnet.parts.wanted I guess, and possibly expand mod to modified, but other than that I like your categorization! With at least Little Armory and BBB active in custom molding, and with lots of people selling modded (...) (21 years ago, 22-Apr-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: New Group Suggestions
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(...) never be (...) I'm (...) I've been in contact with a few people trying to come up with a similar group. I wouldn't go with simply lugnet.parts. What about: lugnet.parts for talking about existing elements or new elelments produced by Lego (...) (21 years ago, 22-Apr-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Requesting to cancel posts
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"James Stacey" <james@minifig.co.uk> wrote in message news:HwIw7t.EL6@lugnet.com... (...) We can't move posts, however, we can administratively cancel posts if you make a clear request to do so. A URL link to the post with a clear request like: (...) (21 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: oops sorry
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not my day is it, just posted this (URL) to .announce not announce.moc .... grrr (21 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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just posted this to .announce not .announce.moc sorry dunno if you can move the group. That'd be groovy ta (21 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Pictures in posts
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(...) Read about it below. Remember, you need to select "Formatted text (FTX)" when you post for it to work. (URL) is a little secret when including Brickshelf images in posts. You can post thumbnails that have automatically been generated by (...) (21 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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