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(...) You too, hunh? I received no less than 3 unsolicited e-mails concerning what may very well be an interesting Lego site, but considering one of them came to an address that I have *never* posted here or anywhere else and can only be found by (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Discussing LEGO-related spam (Was: Just been spammed by Paul Koelewijn)
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(...) Ya, .general is most tailored in its chartre toward the LEGO product line -- only very slightly to community issues. (...) Depends on what you want to focus on. I'd suggest: .publish - if you want to talk about the general practice of (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Discussing LEGO-related spam (Was: Just been spammed by Paul Koelewijn)
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(...) Hmm... At a guess, I'd suggest lugnet.people or lugnet.market.theory, or possibly both, depending on how you wanted to mention it. But then, you're probably not looking for a guess... Todd? James (URL) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Discussing LEGO-related spam (Was: Just been spammed by Paul Koelewijn)
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I've just received yet another Lego-related spam, and I want to discuss it (or at least mention it) on LUGNET. Unfortunately, my previous attempt seems to have been off-topic for lugnet.general (1). So where should I post these kinds of messages? It (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Lugnet for beginners
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Hi Kevin, I think this is a great idea and will be happily willing to contribute. I can't discuss further right now but I will ASAP. -Shiri (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: New group suggestion
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(...) I very much like the idea of lugnet.market.shopping.sales - this would be the group to quickly check before going shopping to see if anyone has found a sale going on at the moment. I've wished for this for some time, since currently it takes (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Lugnet for beginners
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Kevin Salm (<FqMMuI.Mvy@lugnet.com>) wrote at 06:18:18 (...) Sounds like a good idea to me. I volunteer my (very limited) services. (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Lugnet for beginners
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Todd, Suz, et al Lugnet can be rather intimidating, IMO, to newcomers due to its massive size and scope. The Pause database aside, the news portion of Lugnet is growing every day by 400 messages or so and can leave new arrivals here with a sense of (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Finding my first post to RTL...
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(...) I started in 1996, I'd just like to know exactly when :) It would be great to have the archives on LUGNET, but where would you get them and how would you port them? --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: lugnet.org.it.itlug ?
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Frank Filz ha scritto: (...) I think that: loc.it loc.it.events loc.it.itlug loc.it.market should necessarily contain discussions on local topics (events organizations, administration of ItLUG, local trades & market, etc.). The other two sub-groups (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: lugnet.org.it.itlug ?
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Giulio Ferrari wrote in message <38B9ABE2.53A8453A@iol.it>... (...) tempted (...) Just a though on these, how much of the above discussion are really locale specific, and how much are they just discussions in the Italian language? If the latter, I (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: lugnet.org.it.itlug ?
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Mario Ferrari ha scritto: (...) IMHO I dont' really think we need a separate newsgroup for our LUG. There is no problem at all handling the two things (ItLUG and loc.it) together, indeed there are many advantages on having both on the same NG. A (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: LUGNET spammed (was: Semiconductor Specific Search Engine)
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(...) The big reason that Lugnet is spam-free is that for most of it's content, you have to register to post, and spammers hate that. The only places this isn't quite accurate is when Lugnet interacts with a mailing list, as is the case with several (...) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: lugnet.org.it.itlug ?
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(...) Well, that's for you guys to decide! :) (...) It's very, very easy to set one up for you -- just let me know. (...) Well, if you had a dedicated .itlug newsgroup, then that would be for anything ITLUG-related. The current .loc.it group is (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Strangeness
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(...) Yes, with the current article indexer, the original text of cancelled messages are still indexed. No, this isn't desirable. (...) Yes, mainly for legal reasons. (But it doesn't logically follow from the fact that the text is still indexed. The (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Is a FUT .market.auction okay?
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(...) Ya, sure. --Todd (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Thinking of selling my entire 9V collection
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(...) Not unless the group welcomes such posts. Ie - in lugnet.loc.uk, trade posts are okay as long as it's clear that the trade is intended for other UK people only, such as for an upcoming LEGOfest.. as .bst would be inappropriate then. But it's a (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi Todd, I do not know of any current way to search members by state or region? I would like to find other Lugnetters in my area but I would like to avoid having to search through the whole list. Along the same lines it would be neat to have a map (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Is a FUT .market.auction okay?
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(...) I would tend to think that if they're looking for an item at a certain price, they will not be terribly interested in an auction. If you're running a private auction (automated or not), I would contact the interested party and indicate that (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.council)
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| | Is a FUT .market.auction okay?
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Hello Todd, thanks again for LUGNet. One question: If someone posts to market.buy-sell-trade or market.shopping inquiring about where to get a certain set for a certain price, is it okay to reply to that posting with an auction reference, if I (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I saw this post: (URL) was interested in the text which starts: "To everyone else, if you start dealing with..." I looked for the original message, but could not find it. So I did a search for "To everyone else, if you start dealing with Michael" (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Thinking of selling my entire 9V collection
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(...) I thought trade posts were OK in any group? Scott A (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | lugnet.org.it.itlug ?
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1) I was wandering if ItLUG needs its lugnet.org.it.itlug ng. I'd be tempted to answer yes just to make our users group receive a more official acknowledgement of its existence <g> On the other side, all the people that currently post on (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | The Great Guinness Toast (was: Re: Any parties planned for the odometer clicking one over?)
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(...) Hey!--The "Great Guinness Toast" is coming up soon! This Saturday night (2 days away!) at 11:30 pm EST, February 26: (URL) like the same day as the NELUG "TCS dry run" (URL) if people happen to be back in town by then, this could be a fun way (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: Thinking of selling my entire 9V collection
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To Michael... If you are looking for prices, fine, but if you want offers, I beleive you are off topic for this group. "Best offer" deals belong in lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade. Auctions, which is what I would characterise what you're doing now with (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Multiple votes for CLSotW possible?
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Well I don't know if this helps a bit but this is the hidden source from one of my page's forms: <input TYPE=IMAGE SRC="../../submit.jpg" NAME="E-Mail" ALT="Submit the form!"> <input type=hidden name="recipient" value="fusion@refraxion.com"> <input (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Possibly. Haven't tried to isolate that. Better solution would be an altogether completely different one which took votes only from registered lifetime members and let people optionally spread their vote across more than one site if they (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Multiple votes for CLSotW possible?
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(...) Oh, didn't realize there was a question. (I thought you were only making a statement about comments.) No, never got comments as part of the votes, because the mechanism for sending the form by e-mail was to use <FORM METHOD=POST (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Multiple votes for CLSotW possible?
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(...) How do transactions coming through a firewall show up? Don't they tend to show up as a single IP address (or at least a very small set) for a whole group of people? (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Multiple votes for CLSotW possible?
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Well toss one of my 2 votes today as they were trying to see if I could do it... :-) What about the "lack of comments" part of the question? Did you get many comments when voting was by mail? (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Multiple votes for CLSotW possible?
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(...) Yes, someone could do that. --Todd (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Multiple votes for CLSotW possible?
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Still some people can get multiple IP addresses. For example every time I log onto my ISP I get a different IP that way I can vote for a certain site on CLSOTW every minute or so. -- Z. Unger fusion@refraxion.com ICQ: 14375008 AIM: ErrorY3K (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: New group suggestion
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(...) Hmm, surely DYA must be capable of setting up its own mail/distro list for such things... --Todd (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: New group suggestion
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(...) Both BAYLIT and AucZILLA are operations which deal *exclusively* with LEGO. Contrast that with DYA, which sells other items besides LEGO. Also, BAYLIT and AucZILLA have grown up out of the operators' LEGO hobby/fanaticism. Again, contrast that (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Track Designer newsgroup?
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(...) 'Sounds' like a great thought to me. TrackDesigner is certainly worth its own group. Steve Martin (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Multiple votes for CLSotW possible?
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(...) Not yet, no. Probably will be called lugnet.cool, though, and not lugnet.clsotw, to match the /cool/ hierarchy (which currently is only CLSotW). (...) Well, the IP address is logged, so it is possible to filter out ballot stuffing, to some (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Multiple votes for CLSotW possible?
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(...) If this group isn't meant to be, I'd sure love to see the clsotw announcements in lugnet.announce ... Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Multiple votes for CLSotW possible?
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Not sure where to put this, is there a .clsotw group? Anyhoo, I like just being able to press a button to vote, instead of sending an email. But the downside may be that I can vote more than once, or seem to be able to, and there are no comments (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: About auctions and newsgroups
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In lugnet.admin.general, Ray Sanders wrote a bunch of good stuff that I just snipped. Let's see. Today, we've got: lugnet.market.auction lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade lugnet.market.jambalaya lugnet.market.shipping lugnet.market.shopping (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Problem is, on the internet, the line between a business and a person selling individual things gets really blurry. Where do you draw the line between a business and a person selling parts/sets? What would you call BAYLIT or AucZilla, a (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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