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URL error in above post. Can someone delete the post (and this reply?) Thanks, Rob www.lifelites.com (18 years ago, 8-Sep-08, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi all, just a quick note: All is well ;) The maintenance took about an hour, so most of you probably didn't even notice. Thanks for your understanding, Jerry (18 years ago, 29-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Just btw., may I distract you to (URL) I have put another issue up for discussion? Given your creativity here I am confident that you have some constructive views on that subject as well. Thanks, Jerry (18 years ago, 27-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I agree with you here, I have looked into the abyss of madness called MySpace & have gone crazy myself! What I meant to say was "control over JUST the profile page". Agreed, there is a nice established look with LUGNET, that it would be nice (...) (18 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Actually, some work on the user profiles is also very high on my wish (and ToDo) list. I'm quite an active networker, too, and on all these "modern" platforms you find - among all that clutter - some desirable features that might be worthwhile (...) (18 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I know it's bad form to reply to your own post... but another idea would be a updated user profile... I have a web-site, a blog, I'm on Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, Picasa, Twitter, Plurk, FriendFeed, AIM, Y!M, gTalk, etc. It would be nice to (...) (18 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) As I said in another post, I think converting FTX to HTML on the back-end would be a "better use of your time" type of solution, considering how diverse your audience is. (...) Some other ides to consider: - A true RSS feed direct from LUGNET, (...) (18 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That's a really good idea, Michael. There is already an internal function for rendering FTX as HTML, which could be reused for this. It might be a good idea to filter out any JS injection attempts in URLs, which would benefit the web-based (...) (18 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) The easiest solution would be to convert FTX in NNTP message files into HTML; most NNTP browsers understand embedded HTML. And then rewrite the web-posting modules to convert FTX to "safe" HTML (ie. rejecting JavaScript injection or other (...) (18 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Thanks for your suggestions (all of you) - actually an FTX-capable news reader might be something we'd need an idea of the actual demand for. I'll take your suggestions into account and we'll see what we can make of them. There are also some (...) (18 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I've solved the read vs. unread issue by reading LUGNET via RSS & Google reader. There's not enough traffic on LUGNET to prevent me from reading it via RSS now (the traffic has dramatically dropped since Peeron introduced the RSS feed). And I (...) (18 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) One solution would be an FTX enabled news reader. There is no reason why a news reader could not process the FTX. Another thing a customized Lugnet newsreader could do is post via the web interface. I don't think it would be too tricky to get (...) (18 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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As a follow-up to the original announcement, I would like to let everyone know that the "visitor" who basically jammed the NNTP service came back this morning. Since nothing else seemed to help, I had to block out his or her IP range entirely from (...) (18 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) You are certainly right, however using NNTP to get your awareness raised for new developments in your favorite newsgroup (or boards, as forum jargon would put it) could be quite helpful. I find myself using this means at least for some groups (...) (18 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I agree that NNTP is the best way, but I haven't used NNTP for a long time. Ever since FTX was allowed in posts, it's been pretty useless because you can't see the images and other FTX enhanced aspects of messages through NNTP or email. (18 years ago, 24-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I should like to point out (again), that I was already quite fond of the approach the LUGNET implementation took back when I was just one of many happy users and didn't have the slightest idea I might become one of LUGNET's admins one day. (...) (18 years ago, 23-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Oh, please no. The web interface has no way to keep track of read posts other than your browser's memory of visited URLs. No web based forum has yet to provide the flexibility to keep track of what I have read and what I have not read (and (...) (18 years ago, 22-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Gereon "Jerry" Stein" <jerry@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:K5urGL.Gxy@lugnet.com... (...) If this continues to be a problem I would recommend that LUGNET should go into a completely web-based server setup. Allowing for the initial time to (...) (18 years ago, 20-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I'm sorry but there is a small update in the aftermath of the server maintenance (few of you may have noticed): Due to a misconfiguration the mail2news-gateway has malfunctioned for the period between yesterday, July 2, 21:00 GMT and today, July 3, (...) (18 years ago, 3-Jul-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In order to keep you all updated: We have completed the RAID rebuild and everything is back to nominal. I have also applied some long-awaited optimizations to the backup process, which will hopefully level out the load peaks we observed around (...) (18 years ago, 3-Jul-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I am afraid I have to announce another downtime for tomorrow (July 3rd, 2008) between 7:00 and 12:00 GMT. It appears that one of the disks on our RAID has gone faulty and just to make sure we don't run into any data losses, I have requested the (...) (18 years ago, 2-Jul-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Mike: Nope. Logging in will eliminate the need to authenticate messages via e-mail. Hope this helps! Best regards, Dave ToT-LUG Trempealeau, WI (18 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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If I sign in to my account, will I still need to authenticate messages via email? This step is kind of annoying, and I'd like to avoid it if I can. Thanks. -Mike (18 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Atleast its only your head that has an ache and not your freckle, remember Bob, Richies ec has been diminished as has his CO status, hopefully he will get back to being the naughty boy he was in his pre Ambassadoria days maybe he could build a (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jun-08, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) Are you trying to give me a headache? Or is that just a bonus? :^) But I understand where your coming from. After all, (URL) incorrect newsgroup posting is serious business>. FUT set to infinity (and beyond) (18 years ago, 20-Jun-08, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) It's never hopeless, Bob. With care, and with guidance from community leaders and others, you can improve not only your following-up posting, re-directing, re-cross-posting, re-cross-directing, but the whole LUGNET experience for all. (...) (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jun-08, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) If I haven't learned all of the posting, cross-posting (1), follow-up posting, re-directing, re-cross-posting, re-cross-directing rules in the almost 8 years (2) that I've been a member (3) of this site, then I assume that its hopeless for (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jun-08, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) It's not way too complicated, once you get the hang of it. I know I had difficulties early on, but with patient guidance from community leaders, I got to know the ropes. I would encourage you to persevere - it makes for a better LUGNET (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jun-08, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) Such a nomination should be made to .admin.curators, not .admin.general, Bob. I'd certainly be pleased to help out, though. Cheers Richie Dulin CO Legeaux LUGNET Member 1285 (18 years ago, 5-Jun-08, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.curators, FTX)
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(...) I nominate CO Richie for the curatorship of off-topic.debate. (18 years ago, 3-Jun-08, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) In which case, you should probably set the FUT to .o-t.d. No? Cheers Richie Dulin CO Legeaux (18 years ago, 3-Jun-08, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) FUT somewhere else. Please. Cheers Richie Dulin CO Legeaux (18 years ago, 3-Jun-08, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
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(...) Hi Richie, While I agree that some of the earlier posts may have been off-topic for off-topic I think that we have drifted far enough out of the realm of LEGO discussion as to warrant positng in .o-t.d. BICBW. Tim (18 years ago, 3-Jun-08, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
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(...) FUT somewhere else. Please. Cheers Richie Dulin CO Legeaux (18 years ago, 3-Jun-08, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
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(...) In my opinion the message should have been posted in (URL) for Anne posting the e-mail address of the person, that might have been over the top, but she could have instead posted the particulars of the auction. The overall transaction is a (...) (18 years ago, 2-Jun-08, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) Indeed. Though I find myself wondering why Martin's, John's and your posts were all crossposted to off-topic.debate. The content, while probably off-topic for castle, is not off-topic per se, in my view. I've set the FUT to (...) (18 years ago, 2-Jun-08, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) As a matter of fact we are evaluating to throw hardware at the problem (in terms of a stealth firewall that will effectively block the spammers). However, this also involves additional cost that needs to be covered somehow... (...) Identified (...) (18 years ago, 22-May-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Gereon "Jerry" Stein" <jerry@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:K17wvI.GLE@lugnet.com... (...) You need to analyze and filter the spam load, perhaps there is an "upstream" who could handle that sort of thing for you, and take the spam load off the (...) (18 years ago, 21-May-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Okay, it appears that due to the amount of still-incoming spam we do have a lag with regard to handling authentication emails. That's not exactly new, and it's not exactly as bad as it used to be - my last test took about 15 minutes to show up after (...) (18 years ago, 21-May-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Chris, no confusion as such, no - let's rather call it a slight disturbance ;) No, really, I have cross-checked again, and the only thing I seem to find is that we do have a time zone discrepancy between the NNTP and HTTP news post display. (...) (18 years ago, 21-May-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Sorry for not being more clear. I thought there was a lugnet wide problem, and my post was just a note to bring it to attention, and to be silly (...) Jerry. When both Janey, and I experienced the same problem, I just presumed it was system (...) (18 years ago, 20-May-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi all, I am currently trying to optimize the appearance of advertisements on LUGNET. This is both in order to achieve a clean appearance of the web pages (so that the ads don't get on anyone's nerves too much) and of course to ensure we keep LUGNET (...) (18 years ago, 20-May-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Death to all Auzzies - or who killed HTTP lugnet?
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(...) Hi Chris, I am afraid I cannot exactly follow your point. It may very well be that you experienced a small (or medium) lag between the time of your post and the actual appearance of the post on LUGNET's website - this is due to the indexing (...) (18 years ago, 20-May-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi, It would seem people can still post and read Lugnet via NNTP, but the HTML version of Lugnet seems to be lacking. the rtlToronto group has 3 posts from Nick, and Steve regarding Pizza, that I have read, and replied to. The messages were posted, (...) (18 years ago, 19-May-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Last year HispaLUG, the Spanish LEGO User Group was added to the LUG map. One month ago we dissapeared from the LUG map. Is there any problem with us or is any kind of mistake? Please, i would be glad if you could add again our LUG to the LUGmap. (...) (18 years ago, 19-May-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I wonder if anyone can help me? My husband has a lego set "Town 810" which he purchased in the mid 1960's. It is still in the original box and has the board plus all the pieces including cars, vans, signs, trees, garage etc. The set is in good (...) (18 years ago, 24-Mar-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I'm not sure if this was made public or not-- in fact, I'm not sure this was really confirmed, but suffice to say the word I received was that Ken was NOT fired for being a LUGNET member, or the fact that he posted to LUGNET. That said, I'm not (...) (18 years ago, 11-Mar-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I am interested in this legal story. I have heard the same, and I am about to be put in a very odd position by LEGO(r) legal. I would like to hear anything about the companies practices if your able to share them my email is toymuseum@Hotmail.com (...) (18 years ago, 11-Mar-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I'm not receiving my confirmation emails. Its been happening for about a week AFAIK. Thanks, Rob (18 years ago, 6-Feb-08, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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Hello, I was wondering if it would be possible to have a new group created under events to cover "brickvention". This event is becoming an annual event, and as such a public place on this site to discuss it and make announcements regarding it would (...) (18 years ago, 4-Feb-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hi the pro builders are a good lot, Nathan does custom work (called the brick artist), you can also check with the clubs, some of them do amazing work as well. www.brickmuseum.net Dan (18 years ago, 26-Jan-08, to lugnet.events, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.loc.us.fl.orl)
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Hello, I work for an event planning company in Philadelphia and we are in need of an expert Lego artist for an event in Orlando on February 25-28. We are looking for someone to construct either a 6'x4'x2' bridge or a giant seashell (approximately (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-08, to lugnet.events, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.loc.us.fl.orl)
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(...) Thanks for the positive feedback - I can already see that this feature is being used intensively - there have never been so many calls to profile pages as since this modification; Glad I could be helpful, Jerry (19 years ago, 5-Jan-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ditto from me. A handy feature that I will use often. Thanks! Richie Dulin (19 years ago, 5-Jan-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Indeed, a big thank you for keeping Lugnet up and running, and even more so for improving it! Roy (19 years ago, 4-Jan-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Thank you. It has been a minor irritation for years that I have had to search for my own name (or bookmark) to get to my own user profile. Yours is a thankless job. I just thought you might like to hear the positives once in a while. =) Keep (...) (19 years ago, 4-Jan-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Rob, that's what I expected in the first place - however the ad mentioned is entirely possible as they apparently do have both "mature" content and - well - content that could pass Google rules. I have not made the effort to check out which is (...) (19 years ago, 18-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Geoff- From the Gogle TOS: "No Google ad or Google search box may be displayed in a pop-up, pop-under, or in an email." They enforce this quite agressively. If you are getting pop-ups, they are 99.9999% not likely to be coming from Google, or (...) (19 years ago, 18-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Thank you Jerry for both your efforts on behalf of the site and for responding to my concerns. This has been a very timely and reasonable response. I am glad to see the efforts you're putting forth. This is what I think the community is about. (...) (19 years ago, 18-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) You might want to think about removing the ads from the off-topic groups, as they may easily trigger unwanted ads. And maybe even the admin groups. ROSCO (19 years ago, 18-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I've done some quick research on the "adult swim" issue - apparently the channel and the related website are somewhere on the borderline of what conforms with Google's policies. I wouldn't want to see their ads here just to avoid confusion, so I'll (...) (19 years ago, 18-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Geoff, you are right, this is way beyond our intention. First of all, I chose Google AdSense Ads for the simple reason that they do not usually send popup ads to pages. If anyone observes this behavior frequently, I will need to flag this with (...) (19 years ago, 18-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I hate to start in on this thread because I know it will become political, but I have to question doing this FOR ONE SIMPLE REASON. I was browsing (not logged in because after six attempts over the last few years to get my account reset so I (...) (19 years ago, 18-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Oops! Well, I certainly don't want that to happen, so I'm relieved to have asked before attempting it! (...) Excellent--glad to hear it! Dave! (19 years ago, 18-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ok, I did it and (after three days) I can post easily :-) Thank you, Gabriele (19 years ago, 17-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think too that it is a good idea. Without too much scrolling, the newsgroup is again friendly to browser. Luca (19 years ago, 16-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi all, I think I did a fair bit about reducing the "scrolling activity" impact for those among you who frequently browse the news pages without signing in first. Apparently, the rearrangement does not negatively affect the conversion rates, however (...) (19 years ago, 16-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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Luca, thanks for the screenshot - this really helps me evaluate where I could optimize the layout to maintain user-friendliness. I will try some changes later today and see what will happen. I think especially changing the size of the 300*300 box (...) (19 years ago, 16-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) I'm happy to be helpful. The Google ads aren't irritating at all (they have a very good ads system) but it is important to don't make the whole webpage annoying (a bad layout makes it non user-friendly). Anyway, here you can see how I see the (...) (19 years ago, 15-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) Hi Ed, thanks for your suggestions - I will consider them when doing further optimization on the layout. Moving the larger ads into the header area (with the newsgroup listings) makes sense for the respective pages, it will only involve some (...) (19 years ago, 15-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) I take issue with this problem of scrolling too. The layout and usability on LUGNET newsgroups has been by far the best of all web-based forums. Although there now arises a need for ad-based support I would ask that the LUGNET admins try to (...) (19 years ago, 15-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) Hi Luca, I have received the same suggestion from other users as well - I will make the box above the "Active threads" display somewhat smaller to reduce scrolling. Where there are no active threads to display, a vertical banner is inserted. (...) (19 years ago, 15-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I had the same problem than Gabriele, but now it works. Thanks Erik (19 years ago, 15-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) The ads in the LUGNET Guide pages are ok, they aren't annoying, it's a good thing. In the newsgroup pages, instead, I would suggest you to change the ad box with a banner in order to limit the scrolling. Even if LUGNET member, I wouldn't log (...) (19 years ago, 14-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Ah. Here we go. 1) Make sure you're signed in 2) Go to (URL) Fill out and submit the form with a name/email address that's been accepted 4) NOW try to post somewhere! DaveE (19 years ago, 14-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Dave, is it possible that this relates only to users who have set up several - potentially invalid - email addresses? I have just tried the procedure you laid out and it works fine with my account (otherwise I wouldn't have been so sure about (...) (19 years ago, 14-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Indeed, it looks like there's an issue with the automatic posting ID setup. I believe that it's supposed to pull a valid posting setup with your member account, which should prevent you from having to fill out the form every time, and also avoid the (...) (19 years ago, 14-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: No authentication posts, no posts from the newsreader?
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(...) Related problem maybe (I haven't been following this thread): I've sent two messages today via NNTP and no authentication posts have shown up as of yet. First message sent 2 hours ago. I am posting this message from the web interface. Thanks, (...) (19 years ago, 14-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) Nothing left (...) Regards, Gabriele -- gb@@biffuz..it (19 years ago, 14-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Innnnteresting. Sounds like it's not giving you the cookie that it ought to be giving you. Hm. Not to give you the runaround, but try this: 1) Log out 2) Clear cookies (in case any are left) 3) Don't log in, but try posting to off-topic.test. (...) (19 years ago, 14-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Nothing at all. Thank you, Gabriele -- gb@@biffuz..it (19 years ago, 14-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Looks like the issue is the fact that your member page lists a different email address than the one you're using. Since there are 3 separate emails in the membership form (and you only have two listed), you should be able to add your *posting* email (...) (19 years ago, 14-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) This is my situation: 1 - I sign in with the "Sign in" button (and select "keep me logged in until I sign out manually") 2 - I click on "new post" (or "reply") 3 - It asks if I read the terms of use and if I have filled the news-posting setup (...) (19 years ago, 14-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hi Dave, the average ad works on a pay-per-click scheme, however it is pointless for anyone to just click on several ads in a row - anti click-fraud mechanisms with affiliate programs prevent this from generating cash for LUGNET and will (...) (19 years ago, 14-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) This is an excellent idea, and it's entirely in line with what countless other web-forums do already. If it helps to keep LUGNET afloat, I say great! When does LUGNET get "credit" for an ad? Does the user have to purchase something, or just (...) (19 years ago, 14-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Since I'm getting mostly positive feedback so far... I have now also included ads code in the LUGNET Guide pages. This code is also dependant on the Signed-In status, i.e. signed in users will not see the ads. Please keep me updated with issues or (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) You are absolutely right - you should not be seeing the alert message and you should not have to authenticate posts or even enter your name and email address with every new post. It is possible that your browser has the wrong cookie settings (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I _am_ a registered user :-) I am logged in right now, but it stills asks the same things. From your words I understand this is not what should happen... Maybe something has gone wrong when I registered? I used the same user name I used to use (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I think it makes sense to post a small update on this issue: As a matter of fact, email is running fine since the discovery of the "hang" some days ago. We have a comprehensive warning and traffic management mechanism in place so we should not run (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi Gabriele, let me see if I'm getting you correctly: You would like to skip the "Make yourself familiar..." blurb and have your personal info filled in automatically when posting. This is exactly what posting as a registered user is all about (in (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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This is a good solution, several web sites does exactly that. I've only one request: could you please modify the Post Message page so I don't have to go through the alert and type my name and email every time? Best regards, Gabriele (19 years ago, 13-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.announce, Gereon Stein wrote: <snip> (...) Anyting that keeps the wheels on the wagon that is LUGNET, I'm in favour of! Keep up the great work! Dave K -who was once an english major--cancha tell? (19 years ago, 13-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Gereon "Jerry" Stein" <jerry@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:JrHMyn.CMr@lugnet.com... (...) This is apparently still happening. I sent a post for authentication on 11/23/2007 10:19AM and the authentication message did not show up until (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi again, this is to inform you that the mail system status is back to normal, remaining backlog being at approx. 100-120 messages which is the normal level we get with all the incoming spam. I have changed spam handling to the point that spam is (...) (19 years ago, 14-Nov-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Since I think you may all want an update on this: While the mail server is actually done with working through the large backlog of incoming and outgoing mails, there are now some 15,000 mails waiting to be checked for spam and then processed by the (...) (19 years ago, 14-Nov-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hi Willy, I am so sorry - apparently we had a severe problem in the mail system that went unnoticed (I really was knee-deep in a number of issues and did not suspect anything to be wrong, let alone the warning system to actually misinterpret (...) (19 years ago, 14-Nov-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It's definitely a Lugnet problem. I haven't received any news-by-mail posts either recently. The last one I got was on Halloween. I hope this gets fixed very soon! Rene, where are you? -- David Schilling (19 years ago, 13-Nov-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm getting this too---that is, my newsreader thinks that it's posting, but since I never get the authentication e-mail my posts never go up. Moreover, when I go to the multiple post authentication page (URL) lets me submit my address (which I (...) (19 years ago, 11-Nov-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Possibly related, I don't know I normally post logged onto the site so haven't had authentication email problems, but I haven't received the news by mail I normally get (digest for CAD and every post for trains). This could be a Hotmail (...) (19 years ago, 10-Nov-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi, someone else experiencing the following: * No authentication mails form Lugnet when posting through the web interface when not logged in * No posts when posting through the newsreader * The only way to post is through the web interface with (...) (19 years ago, 10-Nov-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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