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(...) It's a pretty funny coincidence, actually. I'd been going over old archives of RTL(1) and then more recently LUGNET(2) as it came into being in 1998. At the same time, I happened to be chatting with Todd about something completely unrelated, (...) (4 weeks ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hi Suz, yeah, the ads became more and more annoying as well as disconnected to the other LUGNET content - if they can't provide delivery of relevant ads, we're better off not placing ads at all. Ads actually used to be sort of relevant and (...) (4 weeks ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Interesting that there should be _missing_ posts after all these years. I had encountered a major hang in the internals of the news system the other day and resolved the same - for reasons entirely mystic to me that must have triggered (...) (4 weeks ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Thanks! Just happy to know it's unintentional and not a sign of anything going away. Having this information still accessible is a wonderful thing; takes me back to better days of the Internet. :-) (4 weeks ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Wow! Thanks for noticing and pointing out that these have gone missing. (...) There's actually no expiry mechanism for LUGNET news articles. However, it's possible to cancel an article on a case-by-case basis using a script internally. The (...) (4 weeks ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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