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(...) Scott, I'm sorry if I am posting in the wrong groups. Please clarify what specifically you have a problem with and I will immediately adjust my posts accordingly. Is it that there are certain posts that are inappropriately included the wrong (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Probably not alone, but I'll bet most people are willing to tolerate it in the name of good relations with TLC. That said, I think you raise a good point, although I'm not sure I would have done it as a direct reply to one of the posts in (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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Am I alone in getting annoyed with TLC's relentless "market" posts in non-market groups? Is this what we envisaged for LUGNET? Scott A (21 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) Looking at the headers, there's no indication of extra actions. I notice that Lugnet's clock is 3 seconds slower than my ISP's clock! The thing is, there hasn't always been a time delay - it seems to come in waves. I used to get the emails (...) (21 years ago, 18-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Sleepers and Talent Brainstorm Invitation
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Per my announcements at BrickFest DC, here is a follow up regarding the brainstorming sessions that were postponed. Your ideas and explorations are wanted regarding these two questions: 1. How can we--the LEGO community--at both the club and/or (...) (21 years ago, 18-Aug-04, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, lugnet.announce)
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| | A change to email spamblocks?
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Would it be possible to stop the "megabloks-are-evil" anti-spam phrase from appearing in email addresses on LUGNET? The sentiment strikes me as petty and, frankly, a little childish. Additionally, I have not been informed that my postings to LUGNET (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm having the same trouble - at least an hour between posting and receiving the confirmation email. It's a big nuisance when you're trying to keep up with a discussion! The confirmation emails (when they finally arrive) have the correct time (...) (21 years ago, 13-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Possible delays on approving email setups and other administrative tasks
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All the admins are going to be at BrickFest, so there may be some delays in approving email setups, or responding to cancel requests, or responding to suggestions that force FUTting is needed or responding to enquiries due to travel and other issues (...) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Why do I not receive some confirmation e-mails?
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I'm hoping someone on the admin team can help me. I have been trying all morning to post a message to .space, but I have not yet received the confirmation e-mail. I posted a test message to .off-topic.test, and received the e-mail almost instantly. (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Happy day for Compartmentalised Dorks! (was Re: Are custom made parts LEGO?
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Hello! Hehe! I admit, having set FUT to an off-topic group has been a bit provocative. (...) That's a very good solution! Congrats! Bye Jojo (21 years ago, 30-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Happy day for Compartmentalised Dorks! (was Re: Are custom made parts LEGO?
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(...) Put the Dremel(r) down, Rob, and back away from the table. These nice men are here to help you. They are going to take you to a place where you can talk about parts modding to your hearts content, and you won't have to hurt any more Jar-Jars (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Are custom made parts LEGO?
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(...) even (...) or (...) we (...) seriously. (...) "Day 42: Today I beheaded a Jar-Jar in hopes that my cries will finally be heard at that wretched establishment called Lugnet. It's finally becoming clear to me that I should move onto larger and (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Are custom made parts LEGO?
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(...) It was a mistake, with no overt or covert subtheme to the truncation that I am aware of. Apologies for any confusion or false inferences drawn. (...) I truly hadn't thought about it. That may be too compartmentalised even for me. (...) Yes. (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Interesting that you truncated the group's title, and not a bad truncation at that! IMO formal clone *brands* should be generally confined to ot.clone-brands, but one-shot modifications are an artistic creation of their own and I agree with (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) What follows is my opinion, not any sort of Lugnet Admin official stance by any means... I think there's a need for a custom parts discussion group but I'm not sure it belongs under off-topic. You can argue it both ways. This argument has in (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jul-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Good idea, and easy to do since it's just an alias. Has been talked about before, time to bring it up again internally. (...) This is a bit harder to implement but in my view a worthy suggestion. (...) As is this. (21 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Request for deletion of second post
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(...) The process is: Send a note to someone on the Admin team with the URL of the post that needs to die, we will take care of it. Currently that's Todd, Frank, Tim or myself. Hope that helps. (21 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Request for deletion of second post
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I accidentially posted twice in build.mecha Here: (URL) someone take care of that for me? I remember reading that someone could but forgot the process of where to ask. Thanks Mark (21 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: valid email addresses
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(...) That's still true I believe. (...) True enough, if you were sending him a note about it. (21 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I didn't mean to specifically point you out, Jason - if you want to change your registration, I'm sure Larry would be happy to help though. On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 03:17:09PM +0000, Larry Pieniazek wrote: (...) Actually, it was saying anything (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Request a LUGNET Newsgroup
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The members of San Diego LEGO Users Group, SANDLUG, are requesting a newsgroup on LUGNET. Here is our suggestion: lugnet.org.us.sandlug Location Notes: Country: U.S.A. State: California County: San Diego Coverage: all cities, towns, and communities (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: valid email addresses
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(...) Oh, one other point. The approval of these is a manual process. Some of the problematic ones (in particular Jason's current one) were approved by me before I knew about this issue. I'm not sure I agree that the interface should force (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: valid email addresses
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(...) Dan: You might want to decode that regular expression into english for those not regexp literate, since you're publicly asking for a change. I THINK it means at least one @ and at least one "." that is at least one character after the at sign, (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: valid email addresses
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(...) So is there something I should do? Jason Spears | (URL) BrickCentral> | (URL) MichLUG> | (URL) CLB> (21 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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Can we fix the registration form for the newsgroups to require that the email address provided is actually valid, as far as the RFC goes? At the very least, require that it will match /.*@.*\..*/? The reason is that SMTP breaks otherwise - see (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | New Lego Group requesting LUGNET newsgroup
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The Chicago LEGO® Builders (CLB) would like to request (1) the creation of the group: lugnet.org.us.clb A little information about the club (not sure if necessary, but possibly useful.) We had our first meeting on 3/13 and a few more in the (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Bad news for NASA
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(...) Embarassing? No. Regrettable, perhaps. But please do bear with us. This one thread is messier than one might like, yes, but hopefully overall future admin activity will be the better for it. As for ObNASA's I did consider including some but (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Bad news for NASA
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Don't you think it is a little embarassing that the thread is now 75% administration Lar? I pushed "nested inline" in the expectation of lots of juicy NASA stuff. You didn't even include an "ob NASA" anywhere. :( You must go back N levels to (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Bad news for NASA
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(...) Yes, I agree with that as a general principle. I do think this one was already over the line though. But I'm massively compartmentalised. Should a "is this here instead of there?" post/question precede a forceFUT? I dunno. It's possible to (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Profanity and bowdlerization
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The LUGNET admins have talked about this topic and reached the following consensus. We're inclined to go with a strict interpretation of the ToS. The ToS was put in place in order to give LUGNET a certain flavor, and we'd like to retain that flavor. (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: New Users Guide: Call for Volunteers
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(...) Hey Lenny, I've got a Few ideas. First, the personal webpages are a hugely underused feature of Lugnet. On the front page there is a button for how to go about making a personal page, but there is no master list (or at least none that is (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Bad news for NASA
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(...) I agree, I'm not sure. I assumed it would belong in .nntp, just because we're talking about threading, and how it should work... But looking at the nntp charter, it's not clear if it belongs there or not. (...) Heh, whatever I think of bashing (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Bad news for NASA
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(...) The fact that past threads became debates doesn't mean that talking about NASA is OT for .geek. I'd recommend judging each thread by it's own contents, not by the history of the subject. (...) Regardless if anyone actually replies to the (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Bad news for NASA
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There is some confusion in my mind about whether this topic belongs in .general or .nntp... read the charter for general and it's on topic there. Plus that's where every other admin post is. So FUT to both I guess. (...) Whether it was already a (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Bad news for NASA
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This is a reply to both Kelly and Steve (close by in the tree) and the FUT is set to just admin.general (...) I don't know what's proper. We're experimenting. I hope people won't get too upset about it, till we get it right. I did an experiment (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Bad news for NASA
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(...) Had further thoughts about this - are there guidelines about recognizing at what point a thread should be rerouted into a different group? This particular thread, IMO, is pretty harmless (now), but I can see how (URL) threads can deteriorate>. (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Bad news for NASA
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(...) I think the topic of 'right level of notification/intervention' is worthy of public discussion. IMO, in this specific instance, the intervention was unnecessary. I hadn't read any 'debate' into the discussion, and any time 'NASA' and 'budget' (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Profanity Question (was Re: American Idolatry)
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(...) It's not censorious, it's a condition of usage. No censorship is involved. (...) My personal preference is no. An administrative answer is, stay tuned. Personal preference again: Hold off till the answer comes down. (21 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: American Idolatry
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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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| | Re: Fed UP!!!!!!!!
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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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| | Re: Fed UP!!!!!!!!
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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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| | Re: Apply skip filter settings to searches.
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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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| | Re: Apply skip filter settings to searches.
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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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| | Re: Apply skip filter settings to searches.
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(...) Heh, nope, you always knew :) (URL) (21 years ago, 7-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Apply skip filter settings to searches.
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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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