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(...) I agree that was probably the problem - unfortunately from a NNTP viewpoint it's not that clear. Carbon 60 (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.admin.general)
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Note that if you use these links, LUGNET gets referral dollars (with no increase in what you as the purchaser pay for the books) which is a Good Thing. And these seem like neato books too! However, just to play devil's advocate, if one wanted to be (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: It's time to get rid of my Technic Collection
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Please don't post auction announcements in this group. The lugnet.technic group is not for commerce, only for discussions. Fredrik (FUT: lugnet.admin.general.) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Just a small mistake... (Was: Re: Please, just end the entire thing! )
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Hi Erin, (...) Funny, I thought you were a male, then after Todd's post, i was thinking, "oops..." This has happened to me with other people and with myself (ie, other people thought I was a male or were unsure :) ... Oh well, I guess that's just (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.people)
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| | Just a small mistake... (Was: Re: Please, just end the entire thing! )
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(...) Someday I really have to change my name to a more masculine spelling (In other words; Todd, I'm male.) Erin (Soon to be Aren) Windross -- (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Simon, Try to cut these guys a little slack. They've put a whole lot of work into getting Kidlug started with not a tremendous amount of positive feedback. They're also somewhat younger and also relatively new to LUGNET. -Tim (URL) timcourtne (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Besides just having the final vote result (score), it would also be nice to know how many people have actually voted. Another very useful feature would be to be able to sort posts in different ways. Right now they are just listed in (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think it's possible that .promo's charter isn't clear. Perhaps it should be stated that it's not a place to promote one's own items, but rather to talk about TLC's promotional items. -Shiri (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Why has this been cross-posted to lugnet.promo - it's completely irrelevant. I call it SPAM. Carbon 60 P.S. Added lugnet.admin.general (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Does this make you read or avoid them? :) Would it be possible to have a thread view that showed the 'best' articles? E.G., I don't have time to read through all of the religious debate on off-topic, but I wouldn't mind reading through some of (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Todd Lehman (<FqvI8u.LzE@lugnet.com>) wrote at 01:17:18 (...) So what's it for? A surrogate for me-too posts? Speaking as an NNTP person, I juge articles by the number of replies they get, and I wouldn't see any of this at all. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm not sure if referenced votes *should* be weighted differently, I just thought I'd throw it in :) Hmm.. if you did weight top-20 page posts differently, then *really* cool posts in low-traffic groups would still get ignored.. unless you (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: The cat is out of the bag (or, this is OFF-TOPIC.DEBATE!!!)
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(...) Why are you asking me? Why not ask the guy who started this discussion? What part of "Off-topic.debate" isn't clear? This has actually been a very good discussion - much better than most. This has been the most benign discussion I have ever (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: 4950 Loader Dozer
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(...) Thought it was me he was trying to provoke! Jeez, following a thread in 4 different groups is hard - I would never have seen Nan Zhou's apology in .underground if you hadn't referred to it! Kevin (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yes. But let me force a cookie to be stored if I want to as well, even if the server thinks there is one there... and let it be my OLD cookie if I want. Sometimes my machines get screwed up. Sometimes I may have copied a cookie file over but (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) LOL! I'd be willing to endure that as long as it supports lugnet ;-) -Shiri (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Wow, cool! Since when did this start?! -Shiri (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.test, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I almost get what you're getting at, but I'm stuck on one part of it. In the early stages of an article's appearance, let's say it's position 19 out of 20 on a top-20 page, and let's say only 7 people have voted +1 on it so far. Should it, in (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ah, that makes *all* the difference! The danger of someone taking out 100 LUGNET memberships to skew the votes and always have the most 'interesting' messages.. isn't really a danger! Richard (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Oh -- while I was out grocery shopping I just realized this: What is sqrt(n)? It's nothing more than a fancy way of writing n^(1/2). So: What if the exponent didn't have to be exactly 1/2, but instead was allowed to vary? Then what dynamics (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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