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Todd, is there any way to re-obtain the cookie with our posting information besides re-registering? If there were some automated way to do it, it might cut down on your mail and administrative duties. :) (I am sure that would be a good thing) If I (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Track Designer newsgroup?
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I'm surprised this hasn't come up before. What I think is needed is a group for exchange of files similar to the dat newsgroups and a group for further development etc. Maybe with such low traffic they may be one group to start with. Just a thought. (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Self Organisation (Was: Re: No gimmicks, just some free background images)
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in article <38B07471.4ED1A93E@v...er.net>... (...) Ummmmm...... isn't 'appointing' a council somewhat contrary to the way that Todd has always run LUGNET? (at least so far as I've seen in the last year+) It (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Self Organization (was Re: Self Organisation
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(...) Well I *did* say "most". :-) But yes, I consider myself highly regarded by at least one member of the community. Me. FUT off-topic.fun (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.council, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Self Organisation (Was: Re: No gimmicks, just some free background images)
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(...) that (...) base (...) to (...) I did not mean to infer, but I did assume it to be the case. (...) You include yourself in this? :-) I must admit, I find this whole development rather interesting. I anticipate that, if LUGNet continues to grow, (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.council)
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| | Re: Self Organisation (Was: Re: No gimmicks, just some free background images)
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(...) Good point. If you infer that I was invited you would be correct... It's not my place to reveal who else Todd invited, it's Todd's, so you'll have to take my word for this, but I do know who he invited, at least in the first round, and I would (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.council)
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| | Re: New group suggestion
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(...) Hmm, that's a very interesting example -- totally perfect for .buy-sell-trade as is, but (if there were a .shopping.hot group or somesuch) possibly borderline between that and .b-s-t (although .b-s-t would still certainly be perfectly fine). (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: About auctions and newsgroups
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(...) Ya, discussion was always meant to fall under analysis. I'm not sure what kind of auction discussions aren't analytical of the auctions, but I suppose it should be added just for clarity's sake. OK, it now says: lugnet.market.auction - Auction (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | About auctions and newsgroups
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The current running topic (generally referred to as 'what to do about auctions') got me to thinking. Most of the controversy has to do with misposted auction announcements. Those seem to fall into two types. One where the poster put it the wrong (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: New group suggestion
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Todd Lehman wrote: <snip> (...) Another example would be my post about the stack of Belville 5870s I found (URL). I put it in market.b-s-t because I was pretty sure that I would be selling them. I believe that this one would meet the 'extremely (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Ebay auction Group
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(...) Yeah, I try to keep in mind the fact that other people don't get unlimited local calls and inet access like we do... (...) True, true (sorry, got the Bud commercial on the brain). (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It's an or-best-offer sale. On the internet, sure, there's little difference, but it is a valid sale type. (...) Umm, because it's in no way a sealed bid auction? EBay sends you updates telling you when someone outbids you, shows you a history (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Include LEGO phone numbers on .shopping page?
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(...) Ah yes. Excellent. --Todd (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Can you provide an example of something they prevent that is reasonable and necessary? (...) I didn't say you thought that they didn't work in any possible circumstance. I didn't say that *I* thought they didn't work in any possible (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.council)
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(...) Well, we can add groups, but doing an actual restructuring would be a major major undertaking. (...) Can you give some examples? If you mean things like x.com and paypal.com, what do you think about the name lugnet.market.services for (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hmm, the rationale being what? (Not disagreeing, just unclear on the motivation behind it.) To increase (encourage) more FOTW posts? To make FOTW's easier to find? To make FOTW's come and find you (by subscribing to the group via e-mail?) I'm (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) c /marketplace/market/ And as this seems to be the time to suggest restructuring lugnet.market, why not lugnet.market.commercial, for anyone who is posting information for LEGO their commercial operation is selling? Steve (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Oh, come on. There's more to despise about the eBay than just the fixed-ending-time format. You're just not trying hard enough. Steve Bliss (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Good point. (...) Alternatively, collecting all eBay announcements in one place may *raise* effective exposure. It puts all the eBay announcements in one place, where they are easy to retrieve. Steve (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) There's no *need* to x-post to admin.general or market.theory. If a follow-up were to belong in either of those groups (or any other group, for that matter), the poster should delete the original group from the Newsgroups header, and put the (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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