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(...) No. I think it was user error! I went back to try to reproduce it and saw that the "linear all" was purple. Meaning I clicked on linear all when I thought I was getting "nested all" view instead. So never mind. However, consider putting (...) (26 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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However, In reality LEGO was only doing their usual pre-sale marketing prep... ie: updating retail store databases in preparation for the upcoming December release... This however should be a problem directed at Target abd its handling of said (...) (26 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That's how I see it, ya. --Todd (26 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Except, of course, that TLC wouldn't have had permissions to cancel the articles if they were posted to Usenet. I suppose they could rogue cancel them but they'd get into a real storm if they did that just because of what the articles (...) (26 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm going to start by saying that I fully understand the Lugnet admins actions in this case. It's far better for the relationship with LEGO to move quickly and do what they request, and *then* follow up to see if it was right or not. But at (...) (26 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well, hmm, I guess you have a good point. It depends on who you consider to have done editing when you raise the question of editorial control. For example, I certainly do not think that I exercised any editorial control -- not by any stretch (...) (26 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hmmm...that's alarming...that shouldn't be happening. Are you SURE? What's the URL of a thread display, for example, that's not threading properly? I ask because of the way lugnet newsgroup canceling works -- when an article is canceled, it (...) (26 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I understand that you're acting in good faith and make no accusations against you. However, since this information was apparently available to the public before being posted to LUGnet, I have a hard time seeing how it's not editorial. It's (...) (26 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) This is so far from editorial control that light from editorial control takes ten million years just to reach here. The reaons were purely _legal_ and by specific request from TLC. Editorial control would be if TLC requested removal of, say, (...) (26 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Prolly. But removing the whole thing is "less" control than excising words but leaving the rest. Or so I seem to recall Prodigy's lawyer telling me about 15 years ago when I first started looking into this topic. And "less" control, especially (...) (26 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm pretty sure removing things like this is editorial control, wholesale or not. (26 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I just went and looked at the 2001 set info tree and with all the cancels, that tree is dust. The tree view for me showed a bunch of disconnected posts with no hierarchy at all. Is that an inevitable outcome of wholesale cancellation or is there a (...) (26 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I don't really have a problem with your reasons for canceling the various posts that began this thread. My problem is that TLC seems to be asking you to replace their clothing when *they* are the ones walking about nude! If they have a problem (...) (26 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well, you know, the same exact thing would have happened if LEGO had asked the same thing a year ago. The only difference now is that they're paying attention, so they notice things like this. And they use e-mail, which makes things go faster. (...) (26 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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I've noticed an increase of identical messages that are posted twice. Todd, Is it possible to do a simple check to see whether the same message has been posted within the last few minutes and then discard the second one? Optimize well, Andreas (...) (26 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yes, I deleted as few messages as possible -- only the ones which contained references to the materials which were asked to be deleted. --Todd (26 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Oh, and P.S.: Todd only deleted a lot of the reply messages because the original message was in with the reply, which makes a lot of sense. Most of the replies were mostly "Wow, that's cool" so, personally, I feel Todd did exercise good (...) (26 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well said. ~Nick (URL) (26 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Gotta agree with Eric here. And wow, I guess I either need to spend more time reading various groups again or give up entirely. In fact, I'm a little scared after looking at the little dots view of this thread. Most of what I'm seeing are (...) (26 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm assuming we will eventually get a new group called lugnet.studios or lugnet.movies or something. I hope the charter will include general movie making discussions, as well as LEGO Studios Steven Spielberg MovieMaker Set. Maybe we need a (...) (26 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) LEGO has respectfully requested that the leaked information on this thread be deleted or otherwise removed from view. Since this was a formal request and TLC's privacy rights are in question here, this is a legal issue and I will be deleting (...) (26 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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(...) Oh! Well then, thank you very much for snuffing my dupe. You got it before I even refreshed the message-list display. Steve (26 years ago, 5-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Both work for me Todd! Great job yet again. Thanks. -Nick (26 years ago, 5-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yes and no -- "yes" in that the main www.lugnet.com homepage will be changing dramatically, and "no" in that the first makeover prototype isn't probably what will replace it, but something else. --Todd (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) OK, great! Worked on my Win98+MSIE5 test system too. I'll cut it over to the "real thing." Thanks for your help. --Todd (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yes, that also works! Thanks. -- David Schilling (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Sorta. There *should* be an automatic thingie, but the better thing would be to avoid it in the first place (99% of the duplicate posts come from the web interface, I think) -- hence the idea about the unique ID in the form. Anyway, if I (...) (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) OK, one more thing to try (if you don't mind): (URL) I've moved the JavaScript code to a separate file which gets fetched via the SRC= attribute of the <SCRIPT> tag. This way, each HTML page only needs an extra ~20 characters (as opposed to (...) (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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So who's canceling duplicate posts? Some automatic daemon-thingy? Steve In lugnet.starwars, Steve Bliss posted (twice): (...) (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Todd, I tried it and it fixed my problem. Thanks, Steve (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I assume you mean that when you click "New" or "Reply", a separate window would popup? That would be very cool. (Just a few minutes ago, I realized web-based-reading would be easier to manage if I did a "open in new window" jump to go from the (...) (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) DA: would that be a problem/annoyance for really long posts, since the server is basically sending two copies of the posting back to the client? (...) Sounds good, I think. Steve (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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OK, that works fine for me - that means it's probably not to do with the scripting tools that were disabled. Many many thanks Todd!! You are a genius when it comes to working out these little bugs. ;-) Cheers ... Geoffrey Hyde Todd Lehman (...) (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well, I'm about at wit's end here on this one, although possibly I may have found a workaround. Internet Exploit^H^Hrer is generally really great about being compatible with Netscape Navigator, but in this case -- where the server is returning (...) (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Following up on my own post, Netscape Communicator 4.74 (not 4.4 typo) works fine, standard installation on Windows 98. So this set reference pop-up error would seem to be IE specific (from what's been reported). Deidre (off to enjoy Friday (...) (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Where I said "Java scripting" I meant JavaScript (and hence JScript being Microsoft's version of it), although Java doesn't give me any grief either (this is as a user, I've never programmed either). In terms of enabling them in IE 5.x I was (...) (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I tried this with IE 4.72 on win98 and a slightly older version on winnt. Embedded javascript works, but it looks like the window object is not defined in standalone files. John (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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You might want to try TOOLS/WINDOWS UPDATE and get IE 5.5 just a thought... EC (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Wait...are you talking about Java or JavaScript? Both are names of computer programming languages, but they're *very* different things. --Todd (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) hmm... When you've used it before, was it embedded in webpages or was it a standalone file, like this, served as a MIME type of application/x-javascript? --Todd (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Thanks for your quick reply. All of the stuff you listed I tried and it didn't work but if you have the same problem then that's probably not it. Thanks for trying though. It's kinda weird though because the Java quickset thing works perfectly (...) (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Ok, I've got IE 5.5 so I'm assuming that 5.0 looks similar if not the same. Choose your Zone (Internet) and then in the bottom part of the window there are buttons for Default Level and Custom Level. Click on Custom Level to see what Default (...) (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Sorry to continue bothering everyone with this, but I still can't find it even in Security Settings. Is there an exact box I can check or uncheck or an option button within Security Settings? -Nick (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Tools/Internet Options/Security Settings Deidre drb@tasmail.com (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Speaking for myself (obviously!) as another afflicted lugnet user, Java Scripting is enabled and I've never encountered a problem with it before, only this pop-up box on Lugnet. Deidre drb@tasmail.com (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I usually consider myself computer savvy but now I can't find where I turn on or off JavaScript in IE 5. Anyone want to give me some help? (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) OK, ya, that helps. It sounds like your web browser isn't wanting to execute JavaScript. At least it gets it correctly...it just isn't executing it. Do you have JavaScript disabled in your preferences settings? --Todd (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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I am not the original complainant but I have the same problem (Win 98/IE 5.5) The file is ql.js. If I choose "run from current location" the following error window pops up: "Script: c:\windows\Temporary Internet Files\content.IE5\CS...R\ql[2].js (...) (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) This is what appears in notepad (the default title for the cgi file is ql.cgi by the way): window.open("(URL) "_blank", "toolbar=0,location=...ar=0,scrol lbars=1,resizable=1,...ght=280"); Hope that helps. -Nick (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) I don't know a fix, no, but with some more clues, maybe it'll become apparent what's wrong. Could you try another thing? When you get that dialog box, choose to save it to disk (just make up some .txt file name) and, What gets saved there? (...) (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) When I enter a set number and select "Popup" item in the search box, my browser (IE 5.0, Win 98) tries to download something. It shows the "Save to Disk, Run from Current Place" dialog. So if you know how to fix that please tell me. Thanks. (...) (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) It's a moot issue -- the lugnet news server doesn't even accept posts in HTML format in the first place. --Todd (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Given the scarcity of viruses, and the variety I got infected with, the KAK Worm virus, it would seem appropriate that your news server should reject infected email and news postings that contain such HTML. I don't know if it does it but I was (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I forgot to ask -- which version of MSIE are you running and which version of the Windows operating environment (or are you running NT or W2K with this)? (...) That's the way it's supposed to work, ya. (...) Bee-zare! OK. Can you try something (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Don't worry -- the duality is temporary -- the www.lugnet.com homepage will be changing. (...) Ya, I know what you mean -- I wish there were a way in HTML to specify the widths (and heights) in pixels or points. Every browser displays them a (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It's tight on 640-wide displays already. Space is scarce. (...) Not 100% universal, no; there are about a dozen pages which have (semi-)static HTML at the top -- haven't gone back and upgraded those yet. --Todd (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yes, under MSIE (...) I can't even get one window up. I get a JavaScript error. (...) What I wanted to do is leave the quickset window running all the time. What happened was that when ever that was the only browser running, an app that wanted (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) the (...) I'm not sure I like the double homepage idea. However, that aside, the search boxes would look better if the were the same with and aligned. (...) As is mine. Scott A (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It seems like there could be room up there in the blue bar for multiple search boxes on every screen. Is that room slated for something else? Why not have boxes for set, parts, and news and a single radio button for current window/popup? Also, (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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A new newsgroup lugnet.football has just been created. Brad Justus of LEGO Direct said that Soccer (i.e., Football) is officialy not part of the Town product line and that it's its own product line. Going by this and by the set numbers, it seems (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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(...) Well, in general, for any NNTP news, it's generally good to use a maximum column width of 79. 80 or higher is bad. 79 is even asking for trouble because people aren't always careful when replying with quoted materials. So it's not a bad idea (...) (26 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: eBay Prank - Please Help
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(...) His (...) far (...) Eww! I noticed the funky wrapping and I know its gotta be my problem. What's the column width for LUGNET?? -- Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com (URL) - Centralized LDraw Resources (URL) - Zacktron Alliance ICQ: 23951114 AIM: (...) (26 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hmm, IIRC, someone else once mentioned something like that -- under MSIE, yes? Perhaps I'm launching the windows wrong. It's using TARGET="_blank", which I changed from originally TARGET="_new" at someone's technical advisory. Could you try (...) (26 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) to (...) That IS pretty cool looking. It would be even better if we could have customized list of news groups along the right side. Steve Martin Member #57 (26 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Jude Beaudin" <shiningblade@home.com> wrote in message news:FyoCxL.F6p@lugnet.com... <snip> > IMHO, I prefer the layout at (URL) to (...) hope (...) I can imagine that such a look works well for the www.lugnet.com url. I think it was part of the (...) (26 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Web interface to LUGNET news moving from www.lugnet.com to news.lugnet.com
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(...) Todd, I tried quickset, but other applications kept stealing the browser window it ran in. It just wasn't as convienent for me as being on LUGNET's main page. I think a better implementation would have to be platform specific (an application (...) (26 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Do you look up sets often? If so, how does this utility work for you? (URL) I think I wouldn't mind if the default place to search was the set catalog. (...) I don't know what to say -- before, the set search was only available from the (...) (26 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Web interface to LUGNET news moving from www.lugnet.com to news.lugnet.com
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: <snip> (...) IMHO, I prefer the layout at (URL) compared to this new creation. Are you planning on implementing that in the future? I hope so because a new look would go well with major changes. Jude M (...) (26 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) The only change that I really don't like is the search dialog. I liked the separate ones better. I now have to make an extra 2 clicks to look something up. That's unfortunate since I was delighted when you put the search facility on the main (...) (26 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hmm, I'm afraid that I'm not MS-savvy anymore (I was in a previous life) and hardly have an MS machine to test on anymore (Virtual PC + Win98 + MSIE5), but fortunately, since 99% of the QuickSet launch code is client-side, it's pretty likely (...) (26 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Unfortunately, due to viral infection by a KAK worm virus recently, I've been forced to limit IE5 with the updated versions for two of the scripting tools which were previously marked as 'safe for scripting' but aren't automatically run by IE5 any (...) (26 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Good job on the refined message search Todd! (26 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Web interface to LUGNET news moving from www.lugnet.com to news.lugnet.com
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(...) OK, I'm posting this message from news.lugnet.com, which is now officially the new web interface to news. Everything on www.lugnet.com still works, but things related to news will gradually be cut over to news.lugnet.com. (Don't worry -- I'll (...) (26 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Later May-June 2000 issues of Mania Magazine DID Include a disclaimer
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(...) Hey US LEGO Fans, are there any scans on the net where I can find the disclaimer or even the entire July/August magazine ? That would be interesting for those of us who are living out of the US (like me). TIA, Christian --- xTI@N. P.S.: Note (...) (26 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Maybe it was cause by a service outage due to work on the server, they occasionaly do this in the week-ends but sometime they have to do it during week day. thanks Martin (26 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm not sure if Nortel Canada runs their mail servers the same way Nortel Raleigh does, but every couple of months or so, I see errors occuring from all the Nortel subscribers to a listserve I run. After a day or two, the errors go away, (...) (26 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Your email server was bouncing all of the email sent to you -- giving delivery failed status notifications back to LUGNET asking not to send further mail. IIRC, it was saying either that your inbox was full or that your address was invalid. (...) (26 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi Todd, sometime yesterday, my email set-up (witch news group that I subcribe on lugnet have been erased for "x" reason, I figured it out only this morning when I saw that no new message where comming from Lugnet, the same problem occured a few (...) (26 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Larry Pieniazek <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:FyLv42.Ds0@lugnet.com... (...) [...] (...) new (...) at. (...) the (...) do (...) they (...) Whenever I launch a new window, there's absolutely no doubt about it, because it doesn't (...) (26 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yes, forgot about this. (...) Not eradication, no. Maybe deemphasis. Now that I think about it, I think the better way to go may be to launch a new window for the posting operation, leaving the old one right where it is at. The user goes (...) (26 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Additional thought, can you close the window when the posting is complete without errors (none of the newsreaders I use put up anything for successefull posts - in fact, in general I hate having to click on a "your action completed (...) (26 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hmm, so long as it doesn't make the posting page dependant on Javascript. Frank (26 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ah, that would be good. Normally I don't like browsers automatically poping up new windows (if I want one I'll center click at work, or right click and chose "open in new window" at home), but in this case, the new window for the reply (or new (...) (26 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) No, nothing to do with server load... It has to do with the stack paradigm of web browsers in general...hitting the Back button _really_ brings you back to where you were (assuming the browser isn't buggy), as opposed to a facsimilie of where (...) (26 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I wish edit boxes were draggable interactively like window corners! (Seriously! :) Hmm, I wonder if there's some JavaScript or DHTML thingie by which this could be handled interactively on the client side? --Todd (26 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I neglegted to answer Todd's question about the behavior. Yes, the page resets (99% of the time - I've recently been noticing that _sometimes_ when I return to the new LEGO listings on eBay after a search that my search is still in the form). (...) (26 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Aah, sounding good. Another little thing, can we have a larger edit window (or is there any way to make it re-sizeable, it seems silly to me to have to be only looking at about 20 lines of text when about 60 fit on my screen). (...) MSIE4 (I (...) (26 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) that (...) True. that's the only way to SOLVE it. But double posting is due to human error. This human errs because there are more steps than necessary. I claim I'd make less mistakes if the path from post initiation to return to my original (...) (26 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It can't be IE 5, or it's a configuration option (and I didn't find it just now), I'm running IE 5 as I type this and I can go back and forth no problem. There IS behaviour on some server generated pages where IE will prompt you to repost the (...) (26 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) How about an automatic edit box below the preview, with a pair of buttons on the left (preview and post) and a cancel button on the right (just like the FTX page editing thingie but with different button labels)? That way you could just (...) (26 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Second that. (technically "First" that, as Kevin's seconding my earlier request, but what the heck, just do it!) ++Lar (26 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd, Thanks for adding the preview function. Can we also have a post button for when we don't want to preview? The deal is, when I'm including a link I want to preview so I can test the links. When I'm not including a link I don't want to preview (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Indeed. I was reading too fast, thanks for the clarification. It's certainly of historical interest, at any rate. ++Lar (26 years ago, 30-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Actually, no, what Rich is talking about is _new_ news. (At least to the best of my knowledge.) What was discussed before was that the July-August issue did contain a disclaimer to make up for the mistake in the May-June issue, but what's new (...) (26 years ago, 30-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I tried hard, but couldn't dig up the ref... (failure of imagination on keywords) but this was already mentioned and discussed at some length. My take was, it was nice that they put the disclaimer in, but it would have been a lot nicer if they (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Here is the image (URL) might have to copy and paste the link. -Rich (26 years ago, 29-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Web interface to LUGNET news moving from www.lugnet.com to news.lugnet.com
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(...) Right. (...) Exactly, yup! --Todd (26 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) The member pages will stay on www, not move to news, right? If so, when we include articles in our FTX pages will anything change? I assume that you'll make them work just like they do now (leave out the "(URL) but I wanted to make sure. Ben (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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