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(...) Silly me, I should have checked. Would it be worthwhile to post in admin.suggestions? Apparently this came up 4 years ago and you hinted that it might be an easy fix? (URL) (21 years ago, 7-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) Heh, nope, you always knew :) (URL) (21 years ago, 7-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Nothing has changed here, no. The following are not indexed... Anything in lugnet.off-topic.test and subgroups Any automatic posting by the server in lugnet.admin.statistics Any automatic posting when a new group is created. ...everything else (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) wow--that is goofy. I just tested this out and Don is right. I got search results from off-topic groups. I always thought off-topic groups did not show up in search results?? Is this broken now?? ____ (21 years ago, 7-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Why don't my skip filter settings apply to searches? I did a search for "animals" hoping to find some building hints, but most of the hits came from .debate, and you can guess what *they* were talking about. Now I don't mind seeing the .debate hits (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Thanks for that Todd. Now I can check the groups via NNTP without having my inbox overloaded. Cheers, Daniel Okely (21 years ago, 7-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Daniel, I ran a script on the server which (half-)manually unsubscribed you. --Todd (21 years ago, 6-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I tried again, copying *exactly* from the email and it still didn't work. So ... Todd, if you could sort this out for me I would be most grateful. Cheers, Daniel Okely (21 years ago, 2-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Chris Giddens wrote: (SNIPPED) (...) Let me repeat. off-topic.geek is NOT an appropriate place to have this discussion. What Chris posted really starts to veer into an .admin topic, actually, as it touches on community (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Thank you Lenny, I appreciate the response and the help. (21 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Understandable but for lay-users it would be nice if the "mighty" admins would simply reply to the request and say "Working on it". :) (21 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) What you are doing SOUNDS right. What I know has thrown this off in the past is if there are any differences in the email addresses being used. You may want to check to see if the email address that the subscriptions are being sent to matches (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Brian, no need to bump. Last night the admins had a discussion about how to implement this. It is definately on the to-do list, no worries. -Lenny (21 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Please don't bump on LUGNET. The admins are aware of your request. Bumping makes some of the admins grumpy. (21 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Just bumping this up. (21 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi, I'm currently subscribed to receive several lugnet.cad groups by e-mail. Works a treat and I get lots of mail. However, I now want to unsubscribe (and continue reading by NNTP). When I go to (URL) and enter my email and confirmation code the (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I whined about this format when the standard first appeared. My concern was that I'd seen lots of emails/postings/etc. that enclosed a URL in angle brackets, and this format doesn't follow that convention. Instead, the presentation software (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I uploaded a screenshot of the message to Brickshelf: (URL) you can see, everything between the < > is being read as the url. The link shows up as "(URL) in my browser. -- Thomas Main thomasmain@myrealbox.com (21 years ago, 28-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I have problems everyday with clickable items in my newsreader for NNTP (Outlook Express 6). If the people who post their MOC's link would put a space between the link and the thumbnail, it would solve 1 problem. On a seperate note, Lar, the "raw" (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That one works fine for me in IE6. I don't recall anyone posting screenshots as Todd suggested in the thread you referenced, so perhaps it fell off Todd's radar? The underlying HTML (that I see via View Source from web view) is as follows: (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Is the problem of FTX formatted links not working properly in news readers still being worked on? I found this post about it from last year: (URL) am still having to edit urls in my web browser after clicking on them from my news reader and have (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yup, I just noticed it. Thanks for the heads up, though. Thing is, the confirmation e-mail took a while to reach me, and I then took a while to answer. I'm afraid I didn't check new posts in the meanwhile, sorry. I've noticed some of my (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Thanks Tim! I just got the conformation e-mail saying my info has ben updated. Once again thank you for your help, now I've got to go finish a MOC I've been working on! (21 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I opened the hood and found that Perl was segfaulting when generating a couple of the webpages reported. I switched the shebang line to another version of Perl and that seems to have cleared it up. Segfaults in Perl are spooky. --Todd (21 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I can view them all in my newsreader, and don't seem to be having any trouble posting, so I'm guessing it's only affecting the web viewer. But I could be wrong. ROSCO (21 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Weird - I can view this message, and Kyle's (URL) and a couple of others on peerons ticker. Doesn't seem to be related to whether or not I've previously viewed them or anything else I can figure. ROSCO (21 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Various users are noticing various intermittent problems trying to view posts. I dunno if this one will even make it out there or not. People may not want to post long things that took a lot of work to compose, unless they have them saved away, till (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yep, I was writing mine as his reply was being posted, it seems. Thanks fellows, I can already tell that the new changes (ie: more people with power) are really helping. ~Kevin Blocksidge (21 years ago, 22-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) See Tim's reply. His instructions are correct whether you're a member or not. (21 years ago, 22-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) I'm going to second this one. I am a member, and recently got a new e-mail. ~Kevin Blocksidge (21 years ago, 22-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) Matt - Linked off of news.lugnet.com is this page: (URL) there, fill out the form with your new address, and submit. You should be good to go within 24hrs after that (someone will approve your new address to post). After that, the confirmation (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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First off, I'm not sure if this is in the right newsgroup, if it is not, I'm sorry. I'm not a LugNet member, but I do have posting priviledges, and do post occasionaly. I recently got a new e-mail address, and would like to know how to change the (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I completely and thoroughly reject the notion that I was being mean. (...) I agree, we should make an effort to foster a generally positive environment here. I also value intelligent posts with reasonable effort given to composition and (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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Original message cancelled, reposting with XFUT --> admin.general. (...) Regardless of those other forums being lax, here on LUGNET, people judge you based on how you conduct yourself. Since this is the internet, one of the few ways to evaluate that (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) This is, in my considered opinion, *off topic* for the off-topic.debate newsgroup as it has to do with the norms and standards of LUGNET itself. If you have an issue with the approach Tim, or anyone else, uses to try to improve things on (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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Tim Courtney told me to send an e-mail to lugnet.admin.general to have CedarLUG added as a mailing list. I would appreciate: lugnet.org.us.cedarlug Here is some information about the LUG. Club Name - CedarLUG Interum President - Brian Pilati (Cedar (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hmm.. That explanation appears correct--I must have mis-interpreted what I was seeing previously. I'll try the "compact view." Thanks to you both for your input! Dave! (21 years ago, 16-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> wrote in message news:20040615213343....ron.com... (...) LEGO) (...) displayed. (...) 10 (...) used to be (...) browsing of (...) Yup that seems right, except I seem to get 20 per page. You can use the compact form to (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I thought the qn was how many results to skip - so by entering 100, you're skipping to page 10? Not sure though. (21 years ago, 15-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I just noticed that a search on LUGNET for an generic term (such as LEGO) returns some 121000 hits, and the first ten relevant posts are displayed. (URL) one selects "next page" at the bottom, it brings up the next handful: (URL) if one changes the (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jun-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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