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(...) I started doing that about 2 weeks ago. It generates a password, sends an email with that password, then stores the encrypted password. The membership packet then contains a backup password. In the case of older members, or if someone deleted (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) The insecurity of written down passwords is when they are put someplace accessible and obvious. This is done sufficiently often by people that it is often treated as an inherent problem with writing down passwords. One trick I have used to (...) (26 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Wouldn't it be easier to e-mail the forgotten password to the e-mail address your members input upon registration? That e-mail could be intercepted but I don't think a lot of people would go into that kind of trouble to be able to look at (...) (26 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Do all ATMs have a video recorder (or live person in the case of a point of sale ATM, though at least in many stores, you are also on video)? (...) An interesting question: would the maximum loss policies exist in Libertopia? Please follow-up (...) (26 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) In the spreadsheet I use to track my sets, I have a column for "missing parts" and a column for "missing minifigures". I also have a column for notes. One problem is that I don't update this as I trade parts, and of course also don't enter my (...) (26 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It means, basically, don't send people unsolicited requests to buy or sell something. Like, if they say they own a Black Falcon's Fortress as part of their LEGO collection, don't write them and ask them if they'd like to sell it, no matter how (...) (26 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Internally, it uses a suffix on the set number to avoid ambiguities arising from duplicates issues of a number, for example: (4 URLs) three sets, each numbered 1974, within a larger value pack also numbered 1974 :-). You can add the _1 suffix (...) (26 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G1Evq8.A9o@lugnet.com... (...) 8-digit (...) if (...) at (...) minute, (...) And (...) card (...) One point to note, especially for anyone planning on visiting Australia. ATMs around here will (...) (26 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi! Sorry for my stupid reply to your excelent reply in "admin.general", Shiri... I did not se the difference between "looking for sellers" and "looking for buyers". /Joakim Joakim Olsson wrote in message ... (...) (26 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Thank you Shiri. I suspected it was something like that... Are you sure the information on "want to sale" is "private"? It wasn't a few days ago. BTW, my newsreader claims that i am "considered rude", if i dont delete som old text from the initial (...) (26 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Of course not -- because that's patently false. Uhhh, if you chronically have trouble remembering good passwords, you should be writing them down and putting them somewhere *safe* that you trust -- like your dresser drawer at home, or a (...) (26 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hi Joakim, Solicitation means looking for buyers, or clients. For example, if someone calls your house offering to sell vaccum cleaners, they are solicitating - looking for buyers. So by "no solicitation" Todd and Suz mean - don't go looking (...) (26 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I'm having trouble understanding the frase "no solicitation", from the pages of the set database. What does it mean? Long time has passed since my last english lesson in school. ("translateing", that word looked weird when i wrote it down...) BTW, (...) (26 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) have (...) I am enjoying this new set list toy. Thanks! The notes column is very helpful, but is only viewable once the set is selected. I would like to be able to see in my private list of total sets which ones are incomplete. I have very few (...) (26 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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(...) Oops, with duplicate set numbers that might not be a good idea :) How about adding a UPC field to the db so we can use a CueCat? KL (26 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) ^^^...^^^ Ack! Don't you realize that's much more insecure than your semi-secure easially rememberable passwords? This is retarded. My banks and credit cards and online trading accounts don't require that much "security", why does my chat (...) (26 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) most (...) Me too. I've now forgotten all 3 of my passwords, including the two new ones that I worked very hard to come up with memorable phrases that I could remember and that passed that (*&)&@%&$# insanely strict password check. Anything I (...) (26 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) most (...) (26 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I got two of these, one from Wired, and one from Forbes. (1) Have people been putting these to any use at all? I could see using them to scan UPC codes maybe... I would rather they built this function into a giveaway mouse instead of YAGTCUMW (...) (26 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Have you forgotten your password? If so, write me an email from your primary address and I can now ask the server to generate a new one for you and send it directly to you via e-mail. You could think of it as a temporary new one which you (...) (26 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) If I send an extra $10, can I get a new packet of LUGNET membership stuff, most importantly my password? Chris (26 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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"Kevin Wilson" <kwilson_tccs@compuserve.com> wrote in message news:39CD8B62.2EEAB9...rve.com... (...) That gets into problems when it spits out the piece count and totals up the pieces in your collection. If this would be implimented, it would be (...) (26 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That isn't really the same thing.... I have just the train of a Metroliner and I wanted to put "0.5" in the "number of sets" box but I couldn't. I'd really like to be able to indicate somehow that I have less than a full set. Kevin (26 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) What I do is make a private note to myself in the notes field -- i.e., "One of my boxes is mushed on the corner and has a bright orange price sticker." --Todd (26 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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(...) [snip] (...) Yeah, I was thinking that too. I'd also be nice to be able to indicate this in the buy/sell columns. (I wouldn't mind buying a space shuttle with a few parts missing.) (26 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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I would like to be able to indicate in my private set guide list that I have an incomplete set. I would like to do this in the space for the number, so it would show up in the total list-maybe as i for incomplete or p for partial. I did try these (...) (26 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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Todd, Suz, whomever, I noticed that when I click on the marketplace news link, the text in the yellow area to the left of the four most recent posts includes a sale at Amazon that ended with August. So I guess I have a couple points. The first is (...) (26 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yah, I have that stuff too, except for the price per minifig. Since I don't know the number of pieces for quite a few sets and since I've only bought about half (or less) of the sets I own, figuring out meaningful equations for my spreadsheet (...) (26 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) hmm... ours has exactly all of those in it too... including the price we paid for a set and the average price we paid per piece and per minifig :) plus a percentage of our entire collection cost vs. the totaled msrp :) (26 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) (26 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In my Excel spreadsheet (which I noticed has some errors) of the sets I have, I've done all kind of meaningless calculations, like the number of minifigs I have, the total original retail value of my collection, the average cost per piece, and stuff (...) (26 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It's done by the webserver automagically on links now (preserving other people's associate ID's, if present, of course) but if you're linking from your own external webpages and you'd like to add the 'lugnet' ID, here's how to do it: The (...) (26 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.publish, Suzanne D. Rich writes: <nifty book> Cool (...) Where in the ULR do we need to insert the /lugnet/, and at what step. For instance, showing us where it goes in the following URLs might be helpful. (or are they not what you were (...) (26 years ago, 22-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.datfest, lugnet.publish, lugnet.edu, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Nuke Boston (was Re: Resolved: Tall SUVs should not be...)
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(...) Is it possible to set the news server to reject or filter out, for all groups except o-t.debate, any message whose References: header contains any message whose Newsgroups: or Xref: header contains o-t.debate? That would eliminate FUT out (...) (26 years ago, 22-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) only thing I can think of is make o-t.debate a thread jail, and reject any thread that tries to FUT itself out of there... Easily done on the web interface, or mail gateway, but not sure about the newsgroups... Of course, this might be a bit (...) (26 years ago, 22-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Adding sets to personal set lists (was: no subject)
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(...) If you're viewing a bunch at once -- say, a whole theme or a whole year -- you can click the "Full" link near the top and see 10 on a page at once. That's what I did anyway when I walked through all the Space sets to enter my list. I also (...) (26 years ago, 21-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Adding sets to personal set lists (was: no subject)
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Along those same lines: When viewing sets in the guide, say: (URL) the "In the Community" section be put above the "My Collection" section? To me, this makes more sense. I'm much more likely to be looking at who else has it/who wants to sell it, (...) (26 years ago, 21-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | RE: Adding sets to personal set lists (was: no subject)
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Geez, why can't I include a subject... (...) (26 years ago, 21-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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Hey Todd, Is there some way we can add the list of sets we own ((URL) adding them one at a time? For example, is there a way that I can send LUGNET a list of set numbers and have it add them all to my set list? If not, are you planning on adding (...) (26 years ago, 21-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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Would it be possible to generate a list of sets by % off? For example clicking on the Price Blowout icon at the bottom of the report legend will take you to a list of all sets 50% off or better. What do you think? Chris mechanizedbrick@aol.com (26 years ago, 20-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Thanks for the reminder - It is indeed part of "Posting Setup". SRC (26 years ago, 20-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It wouldn't work. People reporting anything inaccessable about ldraw.org would crosspost to .cad.dev.org.ldraw. And issues about the ldraw.org website are what the group is for anyway. --Todd (26 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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"Adam Ogle" <oglewood@lcs.net> wrote in message news:G156s0.55D@lugnet.com... (...) Sounds like a good idea! Todd? Anyone? -- Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com (URL) - Centralized LDraw Resources (URL) - Zacktron Alliance ICQ: 23951114 AIM: TimCourtne (26 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Hey Tim, I have a better idea. Why not start a group, e.g. lugnet.webpage It could have subgroups of .updates .inaccessable I would be worth a try and I am tired of cheking this group and all it having is post about inaccessablilty. Oh Well Adam O (...) (26 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Announcing new set database
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Selam, Haklisin, "cash in envelop" her zaman kullandigim metod, ve simdiye kadar hep calisti (70 den fazla)..:-) Ancak parayi bir-iki normal sayfa arasina saklamayi ihmal etme. Selçuk PS. Sorry for the language people..:-) But Hakan is the first (...) (26 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.people)
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(...) Hakan, After you fill out the enrollment form, (URL) server will later send a confirmation e-mail which will include the mailing address. --Todd (26 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.people)
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(...) Sending USD in a letter (and accepting the risk of having the sum stolen) seems to be the most acceptable version to me. What would the postal adress be? A (rather quick) check at lugnet.com didn't turn up an adress. Regards, Hakan (26 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.people)
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You can send the money directly i you are willing to take the risk... It worked well from Sweden. (If you get the adress right...) Other option are way to expensive. /Jocke "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message (...) (26 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.people)
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(...) Well, PayPal says they'll be doing international payments soon (they've been saying that for a while, but I *think* I just heard it was supposed to be happening in the next month). But certainly if you felt safe sending cash (and it's not (...) (26 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.people)
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| | Re: straying off-topic & marmites (was: Re: the best laid plans of mice and men)
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(...) These things always seem to blow up when someone exercises "vigilante justice" (I haven't followed through 100% of this particular instance to say that this one is a case of "vigilante justice" but I'm speaking from a general viewpoint). What (...) (26 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.terms)
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| | Regional food (was Re: the best laid plans of mice and men)
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(...) Really? How odd. In my experience you can't be in Scotland for more than 12 hours without *seeing* a haggis, and more than 48 before someone corners you into eating it. Secretly, I beleive that none of you eat it at all when tourists aren't (...) (26 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) are, (...) My reply to Todd was an attempt to change the situation. Just because it was not the sort of change you seek it does not mean I am wrong (or correct). (...) my (...) jokes. I could claim that you assuming (correctly) that I was a (...) (26 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: straying off-topic & marmites (was: Re: the best laid plans of mice and men)
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(...) I did not mean ridicule anyone or anything. I feel like ridiculing someone right now, but I am too busy... Scott A (...) (26 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.terms)
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| | Re: straying off-topic & marmites (was: Re: the best laid plans of mice and men)
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(...) This is a key point - I think Todd covered it. Rules do exist, and they should be respected. However, enforcing them in a "jobs worth" manner just alienates everyone. If we all sifted through each and every post and winged about infractions at (...) (26 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.terms)
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| | Re: straying off-topic & marmites (was: Re: the best laid plans of mice and men)
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Lorbaat wrote: ..... (...) Is there any possibility that the complaint, or the system itself are somehow ridiculous at least a bit (especially when stretched)? Selçuk (26 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.terms)
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(...) No. Depending on what the processes are doing, you can have dozens of httpd processes all impacting the load average very negigibly, especially if they're blocked on I/O writes to the socket. --Todd (26 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Umm, isn't that what MaxClients is for? The only thing I use load triggerd shutoff for is the Virtual Explorer, since someone could (and has) pointed a rude paralell robots.txt ignoring web-sucker at it and caused 40+ povray renderings to (...) (26 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: straying off-topic & marmites (was: Re: the best laid plans of mice and men)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: <snip> (...) Thanks Todd, I am glad to see another voice of reason in this. Jude What possessed the first person to eat marmite? xFUT lugnet.off-topic.fun (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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It seems to me that every so often someone posts about not being able to get to www.ldraw.org. I'm concerned with some problems that users of the site may have getting to it - its definitely frustrating every time a site goes down. One thing I'd (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks. My fault. I launched a process which forked a bunch of times to do some updates and things. I noticed it too, and raised the threshold. I set the threshold at a low conservative value initially. It's still a bit conservative now, but (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Just a couple of minutes ago (5:02pm Eastern by my system clock) I received this error message: Server temporarily unavailable due to heavy load. Please try again in a few minutes. several times while trying to load the page at URL: (URL) saw some (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: straying off-topic & marmites (was: Re: the best laid plans of mice and men)
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(...) Eh. I don't know how clearly this came through in my original post, but I really don't think what Scott posted was off-topic enough or sustained enough to complain about. My main point was merely that his reaction was fairly typical of any (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.terms)
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| | straying off-topic & marmites (was: Re: the best laid plans of mice and men)
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(...) I don't think Scott named anyone in particular in connection with that label. He may even have been referring to a brief mail that I sent him. (...) I think this is best dropped. I don't think Scott broke any of the T&C, either. The closest (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.terms)
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(...) LOL!!! Yeah, it saw that everything was overpriced by 30% and it wicked choked! :) No, actually the FAOS webserver is acting squiffy lately. If you hit the reload button a few times, it seems to display the page about 1 out of 5 times. Same (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Interesting that you're bemused enough to complain about how oppressed you are, but not enough to do something to change the situation. Interesting also that you chose to respond only to the inflammatory parts of my post, rather than the real (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: the best laid plans of mice and men
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(...) For the record, I am neither "bent out of shape" or "crying".... but just bemused. (...) on (...) I had it for my breakfast this morning, and I liked it so much I had a second helping. It may not sound all that great, but I do know what is in (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: the best laid plans of mice and men
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(...) retort? (...) is (...) to (...) Just to interject, I am the one who brought the discussion to its off-topic status. The original marmite comment was in a post script that Scott wrote in an on-topic message. (...) ^ ^ ^ ^ A post script just (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) His retort was, at least, posted to the proper group. (...) No, nothing compels you to, but if you're annoyed by an off-topic post, this is the place to say something about it. Instead of getting all bent out of shape when someone points out (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think Todd probably needs to add a catagory for over 100%. I don't know if Todd's process chocked when it saw the FAO prices or what. Actually I don't know why Todd bothered putting FAO in the list anyway. There prices are the worst (At (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) The casual observer usually isn't reading adminstrivia, so won't see my retort - which, by the way, wasn't specifically targeted at you, or even at the (3 or so?) off-topic messages in the specific thread I replied. I've noticed a fair amount (...) (26 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: the best laid plans of mice and men
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(...) lugnet.lego.direct, (...) Anything which keeps marmite off my screen helps. ;-) For the record, I really am in favour of compartmentalisation and all that. However, I am also aware that it tends to fragment threads (especially if one read via (...) (26 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: the best laid plans of mice and men
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(...) Scott, would this have helped? --Todd (26 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Why do we not see diabled people represented in Lego(R)?
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(...) number (...) Hey Todd, Is there some server-side way of doing a pop-up or other warning message before a post is confirmed? Like, say... "Please double-check that your post is off-topic for lugnet.off-topic.debate, and not about Lego or some (...) (26 years ago, 12-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: the best laid plans of mice and men
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(...) Is there some server-side way of doing a pop-up or other warning message before a post is confirmed? Like, say... "Please double-check that your post is on-topic for lugnet.lego.direct, and not about marmite or some other nonsense?" James (who (...) (26 years ago, 12-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Minor tweak
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(...) I am sure Todd will correct me if I am wrong but I believe that the "spam myself" checkbox gets set depending on what you set on posting setup and got placed in your cookie. I did not check this box durring setup and it is not checked when I (...) (26 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I agree the red "Posting Message" is a good thing, and the preview, etc. setup is very good. I don't even want to think about going back to a regular newsgroup format - I don't even have newsgroups installed on my PC anymore. Kudos on your great (...) (26 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) One random thought from out of the blue: Several people have commented that they now primarily use the web interface for reading. When this is used, you see the whole thread no matter where it has wandered. Perhaps the web interface should by (...) (26 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: poll newsgroup
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(...) Hmm, with that in mind, should the Micky Mouse sets point to lugnet.fabuland? That's where much of the discussion of them is occuring. (26 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: poll newsgroup
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(...) I would just encourage people to post about their stuff in the closest matching (e.g., most on-topic) newsgroup relating to their stuff. I see new Castle stuff, for example, posted to the .castle group almost daily. If someone's not interested (...) (26 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: poll newsgroup
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(...) I would think you'd simply want to direct comments into the closest matching particular group associated with the poll, ya? For example, a poll about Space stuff, direct that into the .space group where it's already on-topic. That's what we (...) (26 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: poll newsgroup
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(...) PS, I have no idea where you would want to put it. Definately not under announce.brickshelf, since the comments would most likely not be announcements. Actually, a newsgroup for discussing things people post to the gallery would be nice too. (...) (26 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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How about a newsgroup to discuss the polls on brickshelf? I could put a link directly to the newsgroup from the poll results page. The ideal case would be for comments to be associated with their specific poll, but that would require me to write (...) (26 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Concering Fan-zine project. Would ypou be prepeared to host it?
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Hello Todd, As you by now are probably aware, My name is Alex Farlie and I am attempting to start a fan-zine with a Lego(R) slant. Having recived intrest from someone working in publishing at the moment to act as editor. I am now attempting to find (...) (26 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | Link Updates
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As time allows, the following links need updating: At *.lugnet.com/cad/ldraw/ and *.lugnet.com/cad/ldraw/parts/: "Official LDraw Releases" should point to (URL). At *.lugnet.com/cad/ldraw/tools/: "LDraw Add-On (LDAO)" should point to (URL). Thanks! (...) (26 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: link to "World Map" on lugnet.loc is broken
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(...) other areas too...fixing now...thanks. --Todd (26 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Loading of Lugnet
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(...) Nothing particularly exciting -- 400 MHz. PII Deschutes, 128 MB RAM, 8 GB SCSI. Purchased in early 1998. --Todd (26 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Loading of Lugnet
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(...) Ah. Right there in front of my nose all the time. Thanks (...) Indeed. Kind of what I was driving at, or at least that's the story I am sticking to. ++Lar (26 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That's a good way, 'cause it's easy to set from a newsreader too. (26 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | link to "World Map" on lugnet.loc is broken
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Hello Suzanne & Todd, I've discovered that the link to "World Map" on page (URL) is broken. It (accidentally ?) points to (URL) , while I think this should (still ?) be (URL) M. Moolhuysen. (26 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Loading of Lugnet
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(...) Did you try clicking the "View Raw Message" link...? (...) Maybe some kind of 'X-Foo' header saying to force monospace... --Todd (26 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Loading of Lugnet
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(...) Nifty. Out of curiousity, what hardware is this on? (26 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | RE: Loading of Lugnet
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(...) "View Raw Message" (right above "Reply") is probably a better way, Lar. (URL) Lambrecht BXL34@po.cwru.edu (URL) (26 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Pruning not good for the trees
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I'm not sure where the best place to hang this in the tree is, but here it is. Many people have argued that now that the information about the 2001 sets is openly available, Lugnet should not bow down to TLC's request to remove the information. My (...) (26 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Loading of Lugnet
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(...) Using the "View raw message" link (just above the "Reply" icon) will show you the message in monospace. I'd rather not see FTX allowed in posts, because newsreaders won't know what to do with it. The web interface is very nice, but I still (...) (26 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Pruning not good for the trees
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(...) This may be a dead horse, but I'm just reading this thread now. I think part of the muddiness is that Larry is talking from the side of how the law will be applied. A word can have a very different meaning in court than in Webster's (or (...) (26 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Loading of Lugnet
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(...) shouldn't this be set on the posting side? either with a <mono></mono> tag, or with a checkbox ("This post should be displayed with a monospace font"). The tag is better, since email/news posters could still use it... but the checkbox is (...) (26 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Loading of Lugnet
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(...) unavailable" (...) Which is interesting! ...but fairly unreadable via the web interface unless i paste all the text into a monospaced editor. :-) I'm not sure there's a good solution to that short of extending FTX capability to all posts or (...) (26 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Loading of Lugnet
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(...) Just for fun, here's a graph showing the load average logged once per minute. The first two spikes are me running some maintenance stuff and low-stress testings. The big spike after that is the one you encountered. (And the graph is (...) (26 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Loading of Lugnet
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(...) I was doing some stress-testing for about a minute around 3:25 a.m. EST. I ran 20 copies of something that hammered away on some files and mutexes. The load average shot up to about 11. Above 10, the "temporarily unavailable" message is (...) (26 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Loading of Lugnet
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Wow! I just got the following message on trying to do something on the website: "Server temporarily unavailable due to heavy load. Please try again in a few minutes. " has this been happening to other people? I saw it once before a few weeks back (...) (26 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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