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(...) No. Your search does not demonstrate that it is necessarily OK or not OK, it merely unearthed incidents of use. The only conclusion to draw there is that the admins chose not to take action for whatever reason, not that using it is necessarily (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Profanity Question (was Re: American Idolatry)
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(...) Can I use such work arounds? Adr. (21 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Addendum was Re: New Users Guide: Call for Volunteers
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(...) Best to contact me not using that email--as it is a junkmail pit. Use braun at NOSPAM history dot rutgers SPAMKILL dot edu. LFB (21 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: New Users Guide: Call for Volunteers
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(...) Lenny- I'm interested in shouldering some of the editing/proofing load. Given that I edit for a living, it might be of some use...:) Oh, and I've been around for a looo...ooo ooo...ooo ooo...ooong time. best LFB (21 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: New Users Guide: Call for Volunteers
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I can do some editing/proofing, and some writing. Part of my job is technical writing, and I do a bit of Web design (no nitty-gritty HTML coding, though). Just let me know. James Wilson, Dallas, TX Lugnet member #1783 (21 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: New Users Guide: Call for Volunteers
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(...) As payment, you'll have to give me a little Lugnet logo next to my name, just like Lenny. Not. What did you guys have in mind? -JHK (21 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: New Users Guide: Call for Volunteers
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(...) Sure I live on free. -JHK (21 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: New Users Guide: Call for Volunteers
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(...) If you work for free, heck, I'll load you up! ;-) -Tim (21 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: New Users Guide: Call for Volunteers
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I can't do any coding but I'd be happy to do some editing/proofreading/general writing. I'm here just about every night for a few minutes though I don't post much. (21 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: New Users Guide: Call for Volunteers
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I'll do any boring code and html stuff. Give me something! I'm bored! -JHK (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | New Users Guide: Call for Volunteers
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Dear LUGNET Users, One of the main goals of the LUGNET Tranisition Team is to make LUGNET more open and friendly to new members of the community. In that spirit, and full-filling my role as Content Coordinator, I am putting together a team of (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.faq, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Fed UP!!!!!!!!
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(...) Bricklink has such a mode, actually. (21 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Fed UP!!!!!!!!
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(...) Perhaps each thread should be individually expandable/collapsible with this view option. Sometimes a thread starts out uninteresting to me, but a turn piques my interest and I start following. I'd hate to miss stuff like that (as I read (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Fed UP!!!!!!!!
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(...) I've been thinking that it might be very useful if LUGNET had a mode (in the web interface) where only the first message in each thread were displayed. This would make it much easier for people to ignore the topics that they don't wish to read (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Fed UP!!!!!!!!
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(...) I think I speak for all of us when I say... If we had seen this when only Randall had posted, that's where we would have started trying to guide to the right place. It was too late for that when I first saw it though. But I agree, his post was (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I agree, I just think that the LUGNET admins were jumping all over the respondants and not so much to Randall. "Taking names" and "check your attitude at the door" and such comments seemed to be fairly aimed at us who wanted to defend the (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) You make a good point, Alfred. Personally, I think Randall's original message to lugnet.general was misplaced -- although I believe he was probably trying to reach people in lugnet.general specifically since that's where so much vitriol had (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Contributer Agreement v2
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[Trimmed .cad.dev.org.ldraw, we're way off topic for that group] So, could there be an option on the web-interface for this? Like a checkbox for "start a new thread with message"? Then the web interface could automatically add some kind of X-header (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Fed UP!!!!!!!!
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(...) Hi Terry, I'm still upset about it too. (...) Randall is probably as upset about hearing complaints from people like us as we are about the color change. The best thing we can do to honor requests from Randall and others is to talk about it in (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.color) !
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| | Re: Fed UP!!!!!!!!
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(...) I've got it. How about .ranting? I'm kidding. Steven Weiser (21 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Fed UP!!!!!!!!
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(...) The most appropriate place for this question is lugnet.admin.general, to which I've set followups, but to answer your quesiton: Appropriate posts to lugnet.general are posts for which there is no more logical group that applies. In rare cases, (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Contributer Agreement v2
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(...) Thanks! Maybe even crosslink, with the first post in the continued tree pointing (with an explicit label) back to the root of the previous tree too. (...) Yes! (21 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Contributer Agreement v2
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(...) Very good idea! (...) And it helps future readers when the linkage is spelled out explicitly. Steve (21 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Contributer Agreement v2
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(...) I wish 100 was a user selectable option, or an option by group or something. But I don't know enough server internals to know if that's feasible. (...) One of the primary ways that I do LUGNET research (and the way I used to do the research on (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Contributer Agreement v2
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(...) Good suggestion given the way LUGNET is set up now. My main reason for posting revisions in the same thread is so the discussions following the various revisions can be linked. But, you are right, when it grows to over 100, then it becomes (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Fed UP!!!!!!!!
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In lugnet.general, Ted Michon wrote: (snip and not picking on Ted in particular) I will not dispute, and *have* not disputed, the validity of the color topic as a topic that can and should be discussed on LUGNET. However I dispute that it is an (...) (21 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.color, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Issue with profile and from field:
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(...) Did you fill out a new posting setup when you changed your e-mail? Do you use the web interface or NNTP? If you fill out the posting setup form again, we can push it through and your setup should change. Frank (21 years ago, 12-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Issue with profile and from field:
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LUGNET Admin, Ted Michon in a reply to a post under lugnet.events pointed out something I had not noticed. Under the message header the From Field indicates: From: Todd Thuma <thumat@gactr.uga.SA...TOSPAMedu> My profile has long since been changed (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Problem with web interface word wrap
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(...) I have had a couple of my posts do this recently, I post via the web interface. (URL) was a reply. (URL) was a new post. They display in preview mode correctly, but not once they are posted. The second time it happened I noticed that it wasn't (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Problem with web interface word wrap
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(...) No it is also incorrectly wrapped in newsreaders, so it must be stored incorrectly. It would be useful to know which method was used to post it, maybe the wrapping works differently depending on posting method? ROSCO (21 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Problem with web interface word wrap
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(...) Yeah, that was driving me nuts recently in the subfile mirroring thread. I'm pretty slow, so every time it happened I got frustrated when I couldn't find the reply button. For some reason that's the only button you have to scroll (and scroll) (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Problem with web interface word wrap
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Todd, I'm sure you already know about this since I've been seeing this phenomenon for a while now. Every so often an article on the web interface doesn't word wrap properly. A perfect example of this is here: (URL) occurs on both Mozilla and IE so I (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Apply skip filter settings to searches.
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(...) Why not? The folks in .debate cast aspersions all the time. (...) Maybe so, but bionicle isn't under off-topic, and isn't included in the default skip filters. Try the "animal" search youself. Imagine you're 8, searching for animal building (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Apply skip filter settings to searches.
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(...) The "sewer"? That seems pejorative. You may no longer like debate but why cast aspersions? I could just as easily argue that I want .bionicle filtered out when searching at the top level as .debate with about as much validity. I think any hard (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Apply skip filter settings to searches.
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(...) Well, most of the time you get two choices for news search, just not at the top level. How about giving us two choices at the top level as well? "News" would be everything we get now, minus .debate. "News (Everything)" could be what we get (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Apply skip filter settings to searches.
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(...) I think the issue is that then the only way to search for things in off-topic.debate would be to search there explicitly, and conversely, that no posts to off-topic.debate would *ever* show up in a regular search. So (say) if I were looking (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) That would be trivial. But not a very good solution. --Todd (21 years ago, 7-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Apply skip filter settings to searches.
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(...) Sounds like the solution is to remove .debate from the top level index file, but leave it in the off-topic subtree index files. How hard could that be? Don (21 years ago, 7-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Apply skip filter settings to searches.
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(...) it was on your skiplist! :-) (21 years ago, 7-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Apply skip filter settings to searches.
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(...) been fairly easy. Two weeks after that, however, I wrote a brand new search indexer and results engine which runs on the order of 100 times faster, but which doesn't make such filtering so easy. The old way, what it did was found all the (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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