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Todd, Forgive me for adding this in right here! Been trying to get ahold of you for awhile now using the email on your member page and posting at lugnet.admin.general Could you please reset my password for logging into the database? Also, notice my (...) (22 years ago, 10-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Profanity again
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(...) Richard, I'm taking this as a polite request from you that your posting privileges be revoked site-wide at the earliest convenient opportunity. When your posting privileges were restricted originally, pursuant to your flagrant violations of (...) (22 years ago, 10-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX) !
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| | Re: Profanity again
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(...) Sometimes I say "effing" when i mean "effing." Personally, I love using language in all of its varied forms - which includes straight up cursing to 'clever cursing' - where appropriate and for desired effect. Having said that, I think your (...) (22 years ago, 10-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX) !
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| | Re: Profanity again
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(...) Welcome back! Cancel your last post and let's talk trash talk in a civilized manner! JOHN (22 years ago, 9-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(murfl) (22 years ago, 9-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | ForceFUTs (was: What's actually the task of the moderators on BrickShelf?)
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(Reposting from the web, auth email lost someplace on it's way to me) (...) I'd expect it to be the common case, as most threads moved are moved from a more general group (.general) to a more specific one (.color, .o-t.debate, etc). (...) I don't (...) (22 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: What's actually the task of the moderators on BrickShelf?
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(...) SOME NNTP/SMTP users, those who are not already following the group it belongs in. The rest of them will see new posts just fine. (...) Ya, that's true, but the downside is that it's a lot more obtrusive to everyone else, and if people start (...) (22 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: What's actually the task of the moderators on BrickShelf?
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(...) I would actually really appriciate if you DID say something every time you force it, just because otherwise, a thread will just disappear as far as NNTP/SMTP users are concered. If you do let people know you moved it, then at least if I still (...) (22 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: To Whom It May Concern...
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(...) As of right now, Todd is the go-to person for password resets. If you've emailed Todd more than once and it's been in a more than 24-48 hour period with no response, then posting here certainly seems the next best thing to do... IIRC he does (...) (22 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | To Whom It May Concern...
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I need my password reset to Sign Into the database, I've tried to email Todd and Suzanne twice now, but have received no response from them! Can anybody else here help? LMK either way Thanks in advance, Rick LUGNET member #540 (22 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Cancelling posts (was: ... moderators on BrickShelf?)
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(...) Hi Bruce, AFAIK the only way to cancel posts is via a newsreader (if your newsreader client supports it). I think a way to cancel posts via the web would be a nice enhancement :) ROSCO FUT: .admin.general (22 years ago, 6-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Replying to the bottom? [was Re: I hate MOCPages]
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(...) Hmm.. I guess it depends. When I trim, I usually trim things that are completely unrelated to my reply. Otherwise, I tend to leave it all in. I know its bandwidth heavier, but in this day and age, I think we should expect to be able to send (...) (22 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: I hate MOCPages
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I agree with your suggestions. In fact, I think it helps cut down the trash on Lugnet becuase you have to be registered to post, AND Lugnet always shows your real name. Yea, we still get trash (and different people will judge what is trash (...) (22 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Un-spotlight? (was: suspended Bricklink shops)
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(...) The problem as others have pointed out is abuse. But what if the "un-spotlight" were merely advisory? It wouldn't have any effect until an administrator (curator perhaps) agrees. Perhaps administrators/curators would get a daily email listing (...) (22 years ago, 31-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Am I Not allowed to Post or not?
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(...) I have noticed that when my computer has a wrong date/time, both the email auth and the actual post (if I get an auth) can disappear. I *know* I have sent a post dated 2007-07-22, got the auth email, confirmed on the web, but the post never (...) (22 years ago, 30-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Vader's Arrival on Executor
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(...) Yes, I know it was all for fun. AC Pin (22 years ago, 30-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Un-spotlight? (was: suspended Bricklink shops)
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(...) What happens then is you reduce it to game-playing, much like the people who give a 0 to a an absolute classic in the set ratings so that their favorite gets a boost at the expense of something else. But then again, I could counter-act all (...) (22 years ago, 29-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Am I Not allowed to Post or not?
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I too have suddenly started to have problems with the email auth. I post via SMTP, but my last two attempts failed - just never got the auth email. Never had a problem before, always get the email almost instantly. Shouldn't be any email routing (...) (22 years ago, 29-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Un-spotlight?
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Sorry for the left (and wrong) "wrote" header, my previous post should be: I think un-voting is still a bad idea, even with a limited amount of votes this can already have an very adversary effect, see: (URL) that it is a clean voting process, (...) (22 years ago, 28-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Un-spotlight?
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In lugnet.admin.general, David Eaton wrote: I think un-voting is still a bad idea, even with a limited amount of votes this can already have an very adversary effect, see: (URL) that it is a clean voting process, please don't try to adjust it in (...) (22 years ago, 28-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Linking org.fr.freelug
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Todd, Larry, and all the others involved THANKS ;) In the name of FreeLUG, I can tell you this is a great news ;) Gael / Khan (22 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Un-spotlight?
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(...) I was really implying the number of votes, period. So if you see 3 cool MOC's you want to highlight, and 3 threads about politics you want to un-highlight, you can pick to highlight 2 MOCs and 1 politic thread, or all 3 politic threads, or (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Un-spotlight?
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(...) I guess I was unclear on whether you were advocating a limitation on the number of "highlight" votes or on the number of "anti-highlight" votes per day. In general, though, I think the best solution (assuming we need one), is for more people (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Linking org.fr.freelug
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(...) Thank you. Jason Spears | (URL) BrickCentral> | (URL) MichLUG> | (URL) CLB> (22 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Un-spotlight? (was: suspended Bricklink shops)
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(...) No, still bad. There will be the odd member that still uses his quota maliciously. And, as I explaned here: (URL) only took just such a similar limited amount of down-votes to disrupt the Lugnet Set Database ranking order severly. With (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Un-spotlight?
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(...) IMHO that is exacly what has happenend here. Remember that it is a voting process, please don't try to adjust to archieve a result that's more in the line of your personal preferences. With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (22 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Un-spotlight? (was: suspended Bricklink shops)
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(...) That's a very good idea. As others have pointed out, it could cause trouble in other ways though. However, I think that if every member was given 5 Un-Spotlights to use per year, they would only use them when they thought it really mattered. (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Linking org.fr.freelug
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(...) OK I think I am there... (...) Gave curatorship to Gael Frazier (...) Gave curatorship to Jason Spears (...) Gave curatorship to Adrian Egli and Mathew Clayson... Please advise of problems or concerns. (22 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.curators, FTX)
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| | Re: Linking org.fr.freelug
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(...) Curatorships to follow shortly. (22 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Linking org.fr.freelug
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All set. --Todd (22 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Un-spotlight?
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(...) Um. Why? The goal is really to prevent people from having enough votes to wily-nily vote down all posts by people they don't like, or something. Hence, if you've only got (say) 3 votes per day, it'll take you a *long* time to downvote someone (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Un-spotlight?
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(...) OK, I also don't like my idea, but I think the spotlighting can be improved. I for one only spotlight if it's not already in the top stories list, maybe some others are the same. And since it seems to only take 3 or 4 spotlights to get there (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Un-spotlight?
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(...) But for that to work you would need to have a large number of Lugnetters using the spotlight function a lot and maxing out their quota of spotlights. As it is, most people use the spotlight function very rarely, no-one reaches any reasonable (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Un-spotlight? (was: suspended Bricklink shops)
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(...) I strongly object to this idea. Unfortunately it will be too tempting for certain people to systematicly denote other posts in an effort to get their own posting higher up the hierarchy. That such abject behavour exists within our community, (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Linking org.fr.freelug
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(...) Actually make that three. About a month ago, I posted this message: (URL) requesting lugnet.org.us.clb Jason Spears | (URL) BrickCentral> | (URL) MichLUG> | (URL) CLB> (22 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Linking org.fr.freelug (was loc.fr) and Freelug.general lists
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(...) You can have as many emails registered as you like. When posting from the web, if you have cookies enabled, whatever email you last selected is the one that will appear in your post. To select a new (or revert to an older) email: (URL) admin (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Un-spotlight? (was: suspended Bricklink shops)
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(...) Ben - I'm leaning more towards your views than Ross's. Ross's thoughts do have merit though. What if users could de-spotlight posts for their own accounts, but not globally? So, users have a choice to 'remove this post/all posts in this thread (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Un-spotlight? (was: suspended Bricklink shops)
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(...) Hi Rosco, I think this could end as a very bad idea which leads to a situation like censorship. If a few people think a topic is important, then I want to have the chance to get a hint to find this topic, even if some other people (in same (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Un-spotlight?
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(...) Perhaps Ross is suggesting something slightly different-- IE that *if* something has spotlight votes, that you can veto them, but that you can't veto non-existant spotlights (in other words you can't downvote a regular post) Of course, the (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Linking loc.fr and Freelug.general lists
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Hi again o all of you (...) We've been talking about it within Freelug and we think your suggestion is a very good one. Keeping appart location and clubs make sense. So may FreeLUG ask that the lugnet.org.fr.freelug be created ? :) Please let me (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Un-spotlight? (was: suspended Bricklink shops)
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(...) Wouldn't that be pretty much exactly like the original voting system as Todd implemented it? I liked it that way, but it created such furor that it was replaced by the current more friendly system. Chris (22 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Linking loc.fr and Freelug.general lists
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(...) Been thinking about this a bit more and I'm thinking that the link ought to be to the (as yet non existant) lugnet.org.fr.freelug group (naturally, it would make sense that you are the curator of that as well) instead. Reason being that LUGNET (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Un-spotlight? (was: suspended Bricklink shops)
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(...) Now that is worth spotlighting... but not by me as I'm not a memeber. ;( Scott A (22 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Linking loc.fr and Freelug.general lists
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Hi Larry, (...) Indeed. Only registered email can post directly. If the email is not know, it is filtered and an admin validate or not the email. Also a size control occurs, email bigger than 10KB are stopped. We'd already like to thanks you for (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Un-spotlight? (was: suspended Bricklink shops)
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(...) Which gets me thinking, why not also have a "un-spotlight" function? Not to remove a spot light I've previously set (which I can already do), but to subtract from the spotlights of others (subtract 100 or whatever from its points value). So if (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general) !!
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| | Re: new LUG in San Diego
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(...) No apology necessary, BTW, but thanks. (...) Ya, I saw that, and I hear you, it did seem funky but I imagine LUGOLA won't mind one or two till we get this straightened around. Shouldn't be TOO long. Sorry for the delay. As of right now only (...) (22 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org)
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| | Re: new LUG in San Diego
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(...) Larry, Please accept my apologies. I was afraid my original post was lost in the sea of Bricklink postings. And I did want to add some more info as you noticed. I just felt weird piggy backing on another LUGs list. Thanks for responding, (...) (22 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org)
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| | Re: Linking loc.fr and Freelug.general lists
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(...) minor misgivings, the robotics list linkup has resulted in some spam finding its way onto LUGNET. I suspect that since you have much tighter control over who can post to your list that may not be the case. (22 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: new LUG in San Diego
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(...) Please don't do this on LUGNET. If you have reason to believe that your post wasn't seen try dropping an email to anyone, or everyone, on the transition team. Bumping for the sake of "relisting" isn't a good approach, your post isn't lost, it (...) (22 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org)
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| | Linking loc.fr and Freelug.general lists
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Hi to all FreeLUG is the French LUG and we have several mailing lists, some reserved to our members. We have a public one for general purposes which is freelug.general. It can be accessed by email or NNTP. What we would like to achieve is to post (...) (22 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: new LUG in San Diego
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(...) Bump! Responding to my own post to relist it. SandLUG has had 1 official meeting, and one gameing get togather. And another of each planned for the near future. When possible we'd like to get a newsgroup added as well. Thanks, Mathew Clayson (22 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org)
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| | http://www.lugnet.com/cool/banners/
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Was checking out this page: (URL) 95% of the links I clicked no longer work, and all but a few of the images are broken - and one link even gave me some naaasty forced download scripts that were not fun to escape. IF this site is updated again, it (...) (22 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: suspended Bricklink shops
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(...) d'Oh, I think it was me...sorry and thanks for fixing. --Todd (22 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: suspended Bricklink shops
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(...) ... (...) Thanks. I flipped em back ... strange. -Tim (22 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: suspended Bricklink shops
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(...) Sure, there's the original post in .general: (URL) these others: (URL) may have missed a few... :-) Mark (22 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: suspended Bricklink shops
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(...) Can you link to specific posts? I switched a bunch over to lugnet.market.brickshops early this morning -- I checked in my auto complete and didn't see 'lugnet.admin.brickshops,' so I don't think it was me... -Tim (22 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: suspended Bricklink shops
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Many of the followups in this thread have been changed to "lugnet.admin.brickshops". AFAICT, no such group exists. Perhaps "lugnet.market.brickshops" was intended? Mark (22 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | new LUG in San Diego
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Several members have formed a new LUG in San Diego California. Please add SANDLUG the the news groups. Thanks, Mathew Clayson (22 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: My Own Train - Special Offer
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Scott A wrote in message ... (...) non-market (...) TLC are not alone. lugnet.announce has seen other commercial announcements lately: (URL) course, announce also gets used for other things it's not intended for as well, like MOCs (URL) purely local (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: My Own Train - Special Offer
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(...) I’m sorry if I have let myself be misunderstood. In response to your questions: The original post was addressed to the "admins". My original point was that marketing posts belong in .market. But like I said, it is not a big deal. I've no (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: My Own Train - Special Offer
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(...) So, what was your point? It seems to me that the issues in your original post were address by both Todd and Jake. (...) snip -Duane (22 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: My Own Train - Special Offer
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(...) Calm down, I made no mention of your personal intentions. But I do note you have not answered my point. (...) I think we are a market (and a promotional tool) for the Lego Company to mine / exploit / develop. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I'm (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: My Own Train - Special Offer
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(...) I don't think Brad would have replied to him as you just did, Jake. (22 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: My Own Train - Special Offer
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(...) You really think I'm trying to exploit you? Is that just a language issue, or does the UK interpretation of that word have the VERY negative context for you that it does in the US? Jake --- Jake McKee Community Liaison LEGO Community (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: My Own Train - Special Offer
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I understand your sentiment 100%. I was not clear if TLC had some sort of special deal to exploit us this way outside .market. It sounds like they have not, but are being extended some flexibility. I imagine I’d be less irked by this if TLC were (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: My Own Train - Special Offer
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(...) I know some people won't believe this, but I really wasn't trying to spam any groups. Your assessment was pretty accurate. I get complaints all the time via email, IM, phone, and in person that people didn't see my posting on a certain (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: My Own Train - Special Offer
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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 (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: My Own Train - Special Offer
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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 (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: My Own Train - Special Offer
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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 (22 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Why do I not receive some confirmation e-mails?
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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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 years ago, 17-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Why do I not receive some confirmation e-mails?
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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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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. (...) (22 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 (22 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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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. (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Are custom made parts LEGO?
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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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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. (22 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. (22 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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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 (22 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That's still true I believe. (...) True enough, if you were sending him a note about it. (22 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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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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 (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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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, (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) So is there something I should do? Jason Spears | (URL) BrickCentral> | (URL) MichLUG> | (URL) CLB> (22 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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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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 (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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. (...) (22 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 (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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