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| (...) Yes, difficult to find a full-time individual who would be available for the duration of any significant (re)development. Also probably hard to find a part-time manager dedicated enough to oversee work done by many. I have received some offers (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| "Mike Walsh" <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:IJxLJF.1xwq@lugnet.com... (...) Why is browsing offline important? My computer is on-line at all times (expect when I'm sleeping, of course.). You can read an on-line forum at your (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| "Jan-Albert van Ree" <javanree@vanree.net> wrote in message news:IJxyIx.3EM@lugnet.com... (...) True, but the web based interface is so much nicer. Also see my response to your next point. (...) Because a GUI makes it much easier to communicate (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Because most of the discussions I follow on LUGNET don't involve many pictures, and I can always look at those later? Besides, one CAN tie in NNTP with other stuff, if I use my fancy newsreader I can click on any link and the pic is opened, (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| Hello! (...) That's exactly what I never understood about the NNTP fans' fondness of NNTP. I *can* understand why software engineers, coders and other geeky NNTP users (sorry :-) ) use NNTP and actually prefer it over every other form of forum. But (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| Message sent via NNTP Thanks all of you that helped Tim Now all I have to do is work out how to subscribe to multiple groups without having to do them individually "Ross Crawford" <ross.{mylastname}@gmail.com> wrote in message (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | About discussing stuff [was: good afternoon!]
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| LUGNET things are still up in the air. So, I have no real solid situation to state. I'm still gathering info about possibilities and listening to offers. I -would- be posting more bit-by-bit communication here, but my time is seriously limited. I'm (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| "Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> wrote in message news:20050722133952....ron.com... (...) FeedReader doesn't like that address. Any idea why? Mike (21 years ago, 22-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Well, didn't we decide that we all love it? :) (...) I think it's a really nice feature to have (and a great differential between LUGNET and other boards), but for me, SMTP support is more important than NNTP. Not just because that's what I (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Well, there is an RSS feed of all LUGNET posts on Peeron: (URL) it is for all the newsgroups, and not one per each step in the hierarchy. (21 years ago, 22-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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