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Would an admin please either: 1) ban these folks who want to make their personal squabbles (on other boards!) public here? OR 2) at least remove this thread from the front page spotlight? Barring that, please edit the home page to remove the tag (...) (20 years ago, 15-Aug-06, to lugnet.people.support, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Eric, With that "logic", should I post here about the woman at the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles who gave me a hard time the other day? How about a PITA Brickseller? How about when rude comments are made about me over in (...) (20 years ago, 14-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.people.support) !
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(...) Bringing it "back" was not my motivation, showing others that I get hassled even when I keep to myself was. (...) Perhaps a different man would. This man has had enough. Manipulate my image and I will say something and I will point it out in (...) (20 years ago, 14-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.people.support)
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Eric, get a clue! You brought this round back to lugnet yourself. A smarter man would either laugh and ignore the insult or do some kind of damage control. If someone had done something like this to me I'd be doing some research to see why people (...) (20 years ago, 13-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Dear Admins, In light of this response I retract my statement. Tim (20 years ago, 12-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) Arthur, thank you for taking the time to write this and to do so with a clear head. If you are willing, we need such an arbiter. I give my word that I will not engage in malicious activity. I am to isolated to even have anyone to chat with let (...) (20 years ago, 12-Aug-06, to lugnet.people.support, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Arthur, thank you for taking the time to write this and to do so with a clear head. If you are willing, we need such an arbiter. I give my word that I will not engage in malicious activity. I am to isolated to even have anyone to chat with let (...) (20 years ago, 12-Aug-06, to lugnet.people.support, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) My name and my “strange use of phrasing and language” are my own I commented on this issue as I believe I recognize the behavior being demonstrated by some of the people on this forum. I have been involved in resolving many cases of (...) (20 years ago, 12-Aug-06, to lugnet.people.support, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) May I inquire politely as to the nature of your involvment in this? I have asked you many times to knock off the petty bickering and team disparagement you engage in. You are a talented man Mr. Roberts. Lift your soul and the fibers of your (...) (20 years ago, 12-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Dear Admins, I have my strong suspicions that this is a puppet account for Eric Sophie. The strange use of phrasing and language of this response matches his very closely and the name used is further suggestive of a puppet account. I would ask (...) (20 years ago, 12-Aug-06, to lugnet.people.support, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) May I inquire politely as to the nature of Lugnet's policy on sockpuppets? I would consult the ToU but I feel in this case it's best to ask administration directly. Soren (20 years ago, 12-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) I miss my Todd Lehman. Good to see you around buddy! (20 years ago, 9-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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A couple of things confuse me about the entry for set 10177. First, why is there a link on the Guide page to an image (instead of the "Picture not available" box), but following that link ( (URL) leads to no image? Second, why isn't this set in the (...) (20 years ago, 8-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hmm, that *is* weird. This isn't actually a PML thing, though, but an FTX thing. The FTX-to-HTML converter runs as a seperate self-contained module; all PML parsing occurs prior to the FTX-to-HTML conversion. The backslash in FTX was intended (...) (20 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hi Travis, sorry, but FTX/Perl isn't _my_ invention ;-) I could imagine it has something to do with Perl (AYMK, LUGNET is based upon Perl). The backslash in combination with a char is a so-called "control character" in Perl and also used to (...) (20 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Wow, that's really weird. Ya gotta love PML... Steve (20 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) OK, now that's just plain weird. So you're saying that every odd backslash will show up in an FTX post, no matter where they are, right? I confess that I fail to see the reasoning behind this behavior. It's worth noting that I couldn't find (...) (20 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It doesn't matter whether there is additional text within a double backlash or not: In FTX The first one is used to show the second one. E.g. \ldraw\par\ts\s would become ldraw\parts\s too... -Rene (20 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) In FTX mode, you have to use a double backslash to be guaranteed that it will show up: ldraw\parts\s. I don't know why the single backslash shows up before the s, but not before the p. --Travis (20 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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XFUT lugnet.admin.general (...) This is odd. When viewing my original posting through the web interface, the backslash between 'ldraw' and 'parts' is not displayed. But looking at the raw message, the backslash is actually present. I wonder if this (...) (20 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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What in the world are these?! (linked to on the home page) (URL) LEGO + sledgehammer == :( However, the Boba Fett helmet's not breaking is kind of funny. (20 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX) !
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(...) Hmmm, well I didnt realise that because even when I have changed the file to the right name, my machine cant/wont play it. Maybe I am missing something when it comes to being able to change the extention. Geek is greek to me! snipped (...) (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Actually, it IS downloading the movie, just suggesting the wrong filename. (...) It should be possible to adjust the jump.cgi so that instead of: (URL) would be: (URL) would allow FF to save it as the correct name, while still allowing lugnet (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Curious if this "glitch" can this be fixed or at least explained to me? Often someone posts video clips of a MOC or event and I want to directly save them to my drive. When I want to save a direct link using "save link as" (for example - someone's (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hi Danny, thanks for pointing this out, -Rene (20 years ago, 24-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Can someone find out who is doing this and unsubcribe them? I get this every time I validate a lugnet message in robotics. I presume they have subscribed a blogging mail-in or something similar to the group. Danny ---...--- Forwarded message (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.robotics)
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I realize my opinion will be discounted almost immediately, as it's interfering with a good bitch-fest, but it seems to me that Greg is just asking if people are interested in buying some stuff he'd like to get rid of, where Eric was spraying (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jul-06, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Oooo! We'd just need an accepted standard schema for set list information! 'Course, you'd have to keep the tab-delimited format around for anyone who's importing straight into Excel or something (which is I think how many people keep their (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Good point. Hmm, what if the data was exported in XML... (...) Yea, the nice thing also is that if someone changes a column title, so that your program/script can't find it, your program/script can throw up a warning that apparently the data (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I've got a couple scripts that parse that same file, but I never actually parsed the column headers since the column headings were a bit ... odd. They're multi-line and arranged such that they're human-readable, which, when you think about it, (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Since there's a text "tab-delimited" version of the list, parsing the HTML to get the data is both wasteful and fragile. As for the idea of using the list titles to adjust for column updates, well, that's not a bad idea :) (20 years ago, 17-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi Anders, you are right, I am not exactly happy about the turnaround time for new posts either, although there are multiple factors leading to the relatively slow posting behavior. You will realize that using email or NNTP for posts usually are (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Forget that, it just took 5 minutes before the post appeared when authenticated by email. (20 years ago, 15-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Actually, it was more like 45 seconds, now that I'm measuring. And autenthication by email doesn't seem to work for me, either. (20 years ago, 15-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Actually it was more like 45 seconds now that I measured! (20 years ago, 15-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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When I make a post (with OE), I receive an email with a link to the authentication page for the message. I click the link and get to this page, no problem so far. Now, when I click 'Yes, I wrote it...' it takes almost 30 seconds before I get the (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Added to the Suggestions List! Thanks, Rene (20 years ago, 15-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Actually, the <td> tags by themselves could be parsed by a program that processes the data to find the title of each column. Frank (20 years ago, 15-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Do you mean id-attributes on the <td>-tags? Regards, René (20 years ago, 14-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Another little suggestion - adding new columns at the end will often eliminate the effect of changes like this (and scripts can even be written to explicitly expect the possibility of new columns being added at the end). Of course another way (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Nod - it's not a major change in any means. It's still a change to a published API to the database, and being completely open, we have no way of know who (if anyone) is using it. I've updated peeron to deal with the new values (all it took was (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.db.inv)
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(...) Hi Dan, sorry, I haven't known. It was about inserting an extra column between "name" and "pcs." only. Do you know who else could be affected? I would advice these people via eMail. Leg Godt! René (20 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.db.inv)
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(...) Man, I wish I knew you were changing that :) I'll need to update peeron to adjust to the new format. I'm guessing anyone else who is parsing the data will need to as well. :) (20 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hi Kyle, I added a column to the set year and it's also given to the downloadable raw data file, so you can at least sort your list by year on your local PC. An advanced sorting mechanism for the web-view will be added later. Leg Godt! René (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hi John, Steve, please see also: (URL) is still working on this issue (with the appreciated help from Dan). Currently, they're looking for a needle in a haystack, whereas the haystack is the very complex structure of the DB with all the (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It now should work as before the change. As Jerry said, the group was still there. After a quick research, I noticed that the group's entry in the general groups-index was missing, so I made a new one again - et voila. Enjoy! Rene (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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The group is online again - it was just one little entry missing in a configuration file. Sorry for the inconvenience. Regards, Jerry (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ken, the group is still there, strangely the web part went missing during the server change, but it is accessible on NNTP. I am working to make it available on the web again. Strange we didn't notice... Thanks for bringing this up. Jerry (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Where is lugnet,vikings?
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About 2 months ago Suz created the group, lugnet.vikings. Now it no longer seems to exist. Perhaps it went missing during the recent server change? Ken (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) You are right - we have noticed that some of the set images disappear from time to time and are working to find the cause of this. In the meantime, I am restoring images from the backup on a regular basis. Jerry (20 years ago, 7-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Many of the set images seem to be working intermittently, for example see (URL) (20 years ago, 7-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) This could be fun to read in about 5 years. Leg Godt! Rene PS: Try these :-) (URL) (20 years ago, 1-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Indeed. (...) None of the 'nukes' I would be requesting would be for the reasons you mention. The need to cancel posts in respect of the old posts I was unsure about was: - defunct projects that went nowehere - Ideas, which are like those (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hi Alex, do you feel confident that you internalized the whole purpose of a news archive? I doubt we will make the deletion of own posts a duck soup for everybody ;-) Of course, whenever anyone has a reason to cancel a post (duplicate posts, (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi, I am wanting to remove posts I made from some now dormant accounts from the archive you hold. Telling the server to do this is straightforward as Lugnet accepts NNTP cancel requests. However, what is not so strightforward is that to perform a (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Categories made and entries re-sorted. Thanks for the train of thoughts! Leg Godt, Rene (20 years ago, 29-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I agree with this 100% (as well as the solution suggested that I just happened to have snipped away). -Lenny (20 years ago, 29-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I would suggest the two category headings of: - Local User Groups - Online Communities "Local User Groups" are geographically significant and involve face-to-face meetings and often hold recurring public displays or events. (NELUG, WAMALUG, (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) This problem is solved, one can now proceed as normal with the apostrophe. Leg Godt! Rene (20 years ago, 29-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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Hi Lenny & Ben, would it make sense to have a category "LEGO Clubs / User Groups (local)" for all the XyzLUGs and another one "LEGO Clubs / User Groups (worldwide)" for e.g. LUGNET, LEGOFan.org etc.? We should try to keep it quiet obvious to people (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I would - if nothing else the name is Lugnet. I always pictured it as a 'LUG of the NET' M (20 years ago, 29-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) I completely agree with Lenny. There is a difference between online and offline groups. LUG is synonymous with physical offline organizations. LUGs may also have discussion sites (many in Europe do). Discussion sites are different. Lugnet is (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Would you describe Lugnet as a LUG? I wouldn't. To me, a "LUG" implies an essential real-life interaction that does not happen on forum sites (which are online based). (For example, 'DixieLUG' is a real life club based in Atlanta, (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi Ted, (...) Thanks and corrected. BTW: Is the remaining text at least roughly correct? Orthography and grammar? I doubt it ;-) Could somebody post the accurate spelling here or send it via email, please? (...) Good point, I will do for future link (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hi Janey, that is exactly what you can do, because in most cases, people will look for links fitting a certain interest, not a specific site-owner. Probably you have sub-sites for each theme, so you can submit these links to the corresponding (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Rene- Thanks for doing this. I note that the typo ("bei" instead of "by") appears on every page. Suggestion: You might want to request the email address from whomever submits a link in case there's an issue with content or authenticity. -Ted (20 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) [...] (...) I agree. However, though I doubt it was ever a point of disagreement, I believe the company insisted there be no discussion of clone brands on the site. And I'm fairly sure they didn't want negative coverage of the product there (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Maybe it's changed, but I believe LegoFan.org is not *really* an official site. As I recall, LegoFan was a site that had the official "approval", and had limited sponsorship/endorsement from the company. However, the actual site was always (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Actually, LEGOFan.org is run by fans, and it's not controlled by TLG, so it's not an official LEGO property... although it does have permission to use the company mark in the domain name. "LEGOfan.org is a web site owned and operated by a 501c (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) (Maybe I have not had enough coffee yet this morning but..) it was easy to figure out where to put my Lego Blog, but I have no clue where you would put a personal Lego Website. Are they supposed to go under "Lego Worlds"??? (And if so) I dont (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) No trouble at all--you're doing an awesome job! These are minor hiccups along the road :) Dave K (20 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) Hi Dave, it's because of the apostrophe, I will have a closer look later today. However, you can add your link by using the typographical mark \ (backslash), e.g. "Sparky\'s LEGO Blog". Sorry for the trouble, Rene (20 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) I'm guessing it doesn't like apostrophes in the name - you could try doubling up the apostrophe. ROSCO (20 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) Thanks for the continuing efforts, Rene I received this error when I tried to add my blog link-- Konnte Datensatz nicht hinzufügen: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) Um... I think general discussion sites are also a kind of LUG? As for LEGOFan.org: it is in fact an official site, but I wouldn't mind to see it in both cats. Leg Godt, Rene (20 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ja, but uk turns into uk.gif which is the pre-installed flag graphic (also used on the member directory). But you're right, I've added an en.gif :-) Leg Godt! Rene (20 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hi Mark, please find the requested category here: (URL) Leg Godt! Rene (20 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) snip Thanks, Rene, this looks promising. Could you add a category for blogs? Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) Marc's Creations>> (20 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) Dude, you should be using I18N language abbreviations - not all English language is from the UK you know ;) ROSCO (20 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I think you should add a category: Community General Discussion Sites This would cover several sites that are not affiliated with a specific lug or theme. Examples of such sites are EuroBricks and LEGOfan.org (and since LEGOfan is run by fans, I do (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) --SNIP-- (...) Hi Rene, I'd like to point you to (URL) which already has a dynamic list of Lego sites. Perhaps it would be worth contacting the owner of the site, Klas. Tim (20 years ago, 27-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Announcing the new LUGNET Link List
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Hi All, I would like to announce the new LUGNET Link List: (URL) former Link List, Michael Dorneichs great "Everything LEGO Link Page", is located here now: (URL) this list was last updated more than 3 years ago and it has too many broken links to (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jun-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, lugnet.trains.org) !!
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A new group dedicated to LDD has just been created. CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== lugnet.cad (group and hierarchy): Discussions of CAD software/models/animations, LDraw, LDLITE, LeoCAD, L3G0, L2P, L3P, BlockCAD, etc. -> lugnet.cad.ldd (group): Focused (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ldd) !
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"Gereon "Jerry" Stein" <jerry@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:J1DsE0.G5t@lugnet.com... (...) Unfortunately, you're causing IBs to become blacklisted for something you ultimately have responsibility for. One of your options would include going to (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) In theory, that would be a way of handling things. In practice, this would overthrow the way mailing lists (not only LUGNET but in general) have handled header setting and reply behavior. I would not want to copy a well-known software firm in (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Gereon "Jerry" Stein" <jerry@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:J1Bv8v.I56@lugnet.com... (...) Actually since you're handling the mailing lists, why not consider changing things so that they better suit the current situation. What I mean is this: (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) snip (...) Just happened to notice, years 2007-2009 appear to have no subscribers for immediate emails, so when you view the list on the web, the leading spaces are trimmed, and symbols don't align correctly. Probably the best solution would (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Okay, it appears I misunderstood you to that extent. Sorry about that. Then again, the issue is still, that mailing lists as a standard use the original From: address (which is you) but change the Reply-To field to the mailing list itself. I (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Gereon "Jerry" Stein" <jerry@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:J1B9D9.nvx@lugnet.com... (...) The problem is that I post via the web and don't want to receive ANY posts via email, I prefer the newsreader client to do that. (...) I strongly (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) This is usually due to recipients not caring about the "reply-to" field. As a subscriber, you can select whether the posts you receive via email should include the original poster or rather the newsgroup-address in the reply-to field. The (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Gereon "Jerry" Stein" <jerry@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:J1A7Bq.J9L@lugnet.com... (...) One issue I've had in the past with, as an example, has been posting to the lugnet.robotics newsgroup, and then getting spammed by the recipient whenever (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Thanks, I did not expect old ones to show up just from now on. Bruce (20 years ago, 22-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi again, apparently the script doing the news2mail conversion was broken. I managed to call it from the command line and found the error. It works now, however only for new posts - I am afraid there is no reasonable way to resend posts that (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi all, this is in reply to all mails I received regarding news2mail subscriptions (i.e. newsgroup subscriptions as direct delivery via email - not digests, those seem to have worked all the time): I have found the error, repaired the script and (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Bruce, this is what I meant with my other posts, that I would like to know of anyone currently not receiving his mail subscriptions. Apparently only the direct mail function is affected, whereas the digest function works as intended. I am (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Jerry, I subscribe to a large number of news groups and have not received any email since the switch. Going to LUGNET I find my postings that I should of gotten. Can you fix this? Thanks, Bruce (20 years ago, 22-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Once the ports are finalised it would be worth updating this page. (URL) (20 years ago, 22-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Mike Walsh" <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:J18LK0.GDB@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) [ ... snipped ... ] Caught the other post about the ports, I have switched back to 8080 and am now able to connect from work. Mike (20 years ago, 22-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Mike Walsh schrieb: (...) Hi Mike, I have enabled both port 8000 and 8080 (due to other user requests) for NNTP. We are now monitoring port usage and will decide later on, which one of these two is going to stay. Currently it's about 50:50, so the (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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