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(...) So, what you're really saying isn't that you're worried that he'll disrupt the community, but that you don't like his beliefs, so you don't want him here? I'm sorry, I can't agree with that. I just can't. And I dare you to defend that position (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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LUGNET has many things, and it needs many things. However, I don't feel it needs "loathing animosity" of any kind. I may be wrong? Scott A (26 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Much of the canceling was done by the AUKins and other groups who wanted to try and delete my net history. They would leave in only the parts they wanted. Although I think some of those may have been the cause of someone in the Lego community (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Lorbaat wrote in message ... (...) it's (...) felt (...) two (...) LEGO (...) do we (...) can (...) As (...) people (...) exist. (...) and (...) never (...) (trust (...) people (...) the (...) full (...) of (...) find a (...) pain (...) internet. (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) word" (...) or (...) It's (...) Sorry I did not read them, and still have not. I'll accept your word for it. Scott A (26 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) This issue aside, I don't think it is acceptable to use "bad words" here, and I doubt most people here do either. I don't swear in front of my kids, or anyone else’s. Kids do read Lugnet. Sure Matt did a bad thing. But others fanned his (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd, I just pushed the first set of files over to the ftp server. The file is imgld0.zip, it contains black images for all parts. Take a look at this, let me know if this is a good format (ie, makes it the least amount of work for you to publish (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Even more pertinent, glancing over the three posts in question for the "f word" (well, two, since one is cancelled) will show that they are about whether or not the word is offensive... in other words, they were talking about whether or not (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) <snip> (...) Sorry for being ignorant from time to time, but I'll ignore your well worded schweety talk. I have just a question, though. You already made your "point". You proved that we are a bunch of pathetic losers of an evil community, so (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Steve, Maybe you're not the right person, and this may not be the right place to ask - but could one of you who are the wizards of LDraw please correct the "official" description for part number 30382 (the brown wing piece from the droid (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Scott, do you think this is an appropriate example? I never care much some f words in a post, since I'm using bad language in my everyday life, (but still trying to not use them in my post here since TOS banned them) but is this the key (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd, I can understand your intention to being fair, but do you really think this is necessary for this case? Do you really believe that someone could have an acceptable excuse and/or explanation for such a situation? I suggest letting him scrawl (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Matt, You're going to take this as some kind of slam, or some kind of flame, but it's not intended as one, really. Try to keep that in mind as you read it. I've read pretty much every post resulting from your initial posts of a few days ago. I (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) At this point, it's all over but the zipping. But I do plan on making some improvements, so it can be done as a delta-process, instead of rerunning the whole show for each parts update. I also plan on packaging it up, so anyone can run it. (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Scott A wrote: <snip> (...) Scott, actually I like some grinding gears just inside some other regular ones, so I like reading your posts, but MM is completely out of any comparison I think (actually I'm sure). It's not the just this or that post (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.admin.general, John Robert-Blaze Kanehl writes: Todd, I respect that you have the final "judgement" in this case. I have accepted that from day one here on Lugnet, so be it. Discussion has gone on long enough, almost as long or longer than (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I empathize with you completely. When I came to LUGNET in March I also had a lot of ideas that I was all excited about, and most of the time I was told that something was already in the works, there wasn't any interest, or whatever. I do think (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G2prp1.719@lugnet.com... (...) from (...) post (...) 6:30 (...) I thougt it had to do with old crappy MS-mail protocol together with an SMTP-gate at the mailserver? Or maybe not. (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G2ps0v.7xy@lugnet.com... (...) Todd is (...) month/week? (...) ALL (...) nice (...) this (...) devil's (...) to (...) is (...) glossed (...) was (...) about (...) them by (...) Well (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'll give people the benifit of the doubt every day of the week, 24 hours a day. I may be a mug. I'm not the only one who thinks MM is just a poor sap who *perhaps* should get another chance in some sort of limited way. I have read your other (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) the Inet. I remember that I wanted so bad to be able contribute something. I wanted to be something really great, do great things, help out. So I came up with all these ideas that I wanted to do. And I jumped right into RTL and proposed my (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) (URL) and replies (URL) and replies (...) Good morning!!! --Todd (26 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm tending to side with Mike here. I remember the RTL instruction scans incident all too well. Matt has glossed over that, but my recollection (Ka On Lee posted a deja reference to it) was that anyone that said ANYTHING that suggested that (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Mailers that break threads. In this particular case, it appears to be MS Outlook, at least, that is damaged. Todd has installed a filter to detect mailed in posts originated from this mailer and mailers that claim to be "it" and that filter (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Remember all these? (URL) should had pick on me instead, but I don't have a page for you to pick on... ;) I have completely forgotten all that until the big bu-ha-ha shows up in the spotlight. (...) If you do that lying thing or the (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) and it (...) day or (...) Without restarting what appears to have been a protracted argument that I've managed to avoid so far, what tool are we talking about here? Kerry (26 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I agree, and also want to say thank you for the tremendous job you are doing here. So... Thank you! And while we're on the topic of receiving LUGNET messages by email, here's a feature that I would very much like to see: a single switch to (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Let's examine what I did wrong yesterday. I attacked Judes site, I promoted personal opinions on my website through this forum, I chose to actively defend my opinions by flaming. I did not set out to try and undermine the existence of Lugnet, (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Moulton writes: <snip> Well, it may make me sound like a jerk, but your apology rings false and I think you're lying. I don't believe a word of it. You obviously have a certain degree of skill at word craft, and at (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Indeed. Politeness, civility, and camaraderie is *so* boring, really. :-) ++Lar (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think webpage updates need be few and far between. I do not know if Todd is able to limit the number of posts MM can make to (say) once a month/week? Scott A (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 19:32:59 GMT, "Mike Stanley" <cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com> wrote: Mike, when you talk about my webpage you are talking about my home. In my home I express myself the way I want. Granted I was wrong to try and advertise the opinions in (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 20:45:05 GMT, "John Robert-Blaze Kanehl" <johnNYblaze44@webtv.net> wrote: Uh, rather than go through all this I'll discuss it in general. I feel you are comparing me to a "legend" more than anything. Yes, I am the Mad Hatter. (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) If ANYONE believes this... please reconsider. Mike Stanley has pretty much said it all. (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) As am I. (...) You had a right to have it. Your webpage is like your home, and when people visit it, it's no different from inviting people into your house. In your house you can express yourself the way you want, be who you are, if people (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well, theres a start. An apology is only part of the act of contrition... one must strive to be better. Regarding emotions...I generally have the emotional range of a turnip, but that does not mean I can be offensive, callous, insensitive, and (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Sure :) (...) Nah. I can't speak for Matthew G or John M, but I'm basically just a longtime computer hardware geek trying to keep finding new things to play with each year. :) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) You know, if you could script this us so I could run it I would be happy to let it run on any number of my available PIII machines with scads of diskspace. In fact, with just a little time and effort I could rig up a remote controllable (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Heh. Maybe. It might also have to do with me trying to run it in the background on a Win98 machine. I moved it over to an old P166 with NT4, and it's going much faster. Unfortunately, the P166 doesn't have enough disk space for all the BMP (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Matthew" <moulton@hscis.net> wrote in message news:39ef2b6f.137507...net.com... [snip] (...) While that is the truth, I think that there was way too much attacking on your part going on. Nevertheless, as you said, you were out to prove a point, and (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Matthew, I have to admit I was mad and hurt. You do not have much of my respect right now considering the manner in which you pulled your 'stunt'. As far as you being banned, I am glad Todd did it and I am glad he is giving you the chance to (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Play? I am the devil's advocate. :-) It can be a bit one sided here at times. Scott A (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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<snipped to conserve space> Tim is right, we do need to take some time and reflect. Let us 'Selah' for a time and make some constructive changes to the community to improve things. I have been participating in LUGNET for several months now and must (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) You are correct, I should have stopped while I was ahead, instead I chose to "try and get back at people". That was mistake, one which I am sorry for making. -Matthew (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Moulton writes: Ask yourselves this though, did you want me (...) You have a right to your opinions, be they harsh or not. You do have a responsibility, however (within this group at least), to state those opinions (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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One thing that I would like to add is that if my posting privileges are reinstated I will only post updates about my webpage, nothing else. And only updates that do not undermine the harmony and sanctity of Lugnet and it's users. -Matthew (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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First off I would like to publicly apologize to Jude. I do that more for Jude than I do for me. I killed my emotions a long time ago, so sometimes it's hard to remember that everyone else still feels them. I think the reason I picked Jude and the (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Below is a copy of a message I have just written to Matthew via e-mail. If Matthew does show up here today, please try to keep things as civil as possible. --Todd ___...___ Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:24:33 -0400 From: Todd Lehman (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) My perception is that the banning occured because: 1. there was clearly a single individual who was fanning the flames of a flame war which had potential to severely impact Lugnet's mission 2. the individual communicated pretty clear threats (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) But you would still have read at least read a message in order to reply to it? But I take your point. (...) I'm not sure I do want to speak to him, but I'm also not sure about how is banning came about. I pointed out posts earlier which (I (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Interesting "conclusion" then; still wrong. (...) Sometimes I read chronologically and sometimes I read reverse-chronologically. My newsreader sorts everything by time, and gives me a near-live feed, so if I happen to be sitting at the screen (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Not really a guess. (...) (URL) you did not disallow him for more than an hour after you read the "threshold breakers", in the intervening time you read and replied to his denigration(1) of you? Further, I can't remember anyone being excluded (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I wonder if it has something to do with the image sizes being so small -- that the overhead of firing up IM for each image is the bottleneck. Under FreeBSD the executable I got when I compiled IM was 2.5MB(!) and I seem to remember it also (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Can I quote you on that? BTW, I had a slightly different take on that meeting. I felt like a complete duffer, who was lucky to be sitting around with some real pros. Steve (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) The funny thing is, it's taking longer to convert from BMP24 to GIF than it did to render the images in the first place... ImageMagick gives better compression than Paint Shop Pro (not sure why that is...), but IM seems to be an order of (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Interesting guess, but wrong. Here are the threshold breakers: (URL) [1] Yes, I have permission to republish these comments here. It's part of (...) Thanks for your input. You may be right about it being a bad idea to post feedback comments as (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) In all seriousness, I don't understand your question, mostly because if it were communicated verbally, there would have been emphasis on one word or another to give me a clue what you meant. I'll assume what you meant is: "It's not what *you* (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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I'm still working on the FAQ (check it out if you haven't already at (URL) ) and I've notice that LUGNET(TM) worries about copyrights, registered marks and trademarks a whole lot more than the LEGO Group appears to. I'd appreciate any guidelines on (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) is (...) It is not what you consider to be a flame which is important - do you agree? (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think Mathew made a lot of points; some were quite enlightening, some were pertinent and some I can't agree with one bit. However, as far as I can see it looks like you reacted to his criticism of you more than anything else. This makes you (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yesterday and earlier today I was running a very extensive ftp sequence from home, and it filled up some logs on /var. --Todd (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) just curious - what was wrong with it? (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Thanks for checking into this for me, Todd. It looks like everything is coming in fine now. I start to go into withdrawal if I don't get my LUGNET email messages... ;-) -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Lehman" (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Whatever it was. It really seems fixed now. Messages are flooding in as I type this. (32 and counting.) Thanks Todd!!! -Kyle (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm asking the server to re-send any outgoing news messages by mail that it tried to send during the past 8-9 hours or so (about 200 messages). You may get two copies of something from way earlier today or just recently -- I apologize for the (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I have recently received at least one message from around 3:30 Comparing the Web Interface to the email one, It does seem like at least some of the New messages are getting through. ( I can't tell for sure because I can't remember which groups (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Awesome!!!...!!! Very happy to hear that! --Todd (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I started to receive emails too. The first one was posted at 6:42 PM. It looks like it was just posted to LUGNET a very short time ago. I have nothing before that, back to around 12 noon. -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Lehman" (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Here are the date headers from on emssage I've gotten: (coincidently it's from you :^) Check your email for the full message headers if you think they'll help. Posted-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 22:49:29 GMT Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 22:49:29 GMT (26 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That's strange. The problem isn't 100% fixed yet on the server. What date stamp appears on the message (particularly, the time of day)? (...) I may have to ask the server to resend things. --Todd (26 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm starting to receive LUGNET emails again. Thanks. Any idea if the backlog will eventually get deivered? or is it gone? -Kyle (26 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ben, Dunno if anyone in the mammoth thread suggested this, but you could always use the web interface at work. I'm forced to use this at a couple of sites, cos they block NNTP, and it's really not that bad. If you set up your posting settings, (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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(...) Wait...no...I take it back -- there is something wrong. I forgot to look in one of the most obvious places. I don't think any mail is going out. Hang on. --Todd (26 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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[redirecting to .admin.general] (...) That's not too unusual -- email is one of the more unreliable forms of communication on the Internet (if you're looking for quick speed and that), although things almost always get delivered eventually. I just (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) my (...) while (...) Unfortunately, such people are unlikely to take any notice of such conditions. And any legal action against them is probably doomed to failure, and will certainly be expensive. The best two solutions are probably: 1. Never (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.admin.terms)
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(...) I don't have the data indexed by location, so it would have to scan linearly over all the data. Perhaps in the future. For now, you can get the answer by looking at the "by country" list (everyone on one big page -- give it a while to load)... (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ... (...) nobody (...) than (...) Oops..... I'm sorry, I didn't realise people had a major problem with this. I guess that because I'm using a news-reader app instead of the browser, every use of FUT is a broken (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Personally, I would love to see an "ignore user" function. (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I have been reading many messages lately about email address being pulled out of newsgroups. I have to kick in my two cents here, because this is driving me nuts. Newsgroup email harvesting has been happening since the creation of newsgroups. You (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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(...) D'oh! I forgot my own footnote. [1] I was there to flame. I enjoy flaming people. I don't think it's a big crime, especially if you keep it to places where it's appropriate, such as alt.usenet.kooks, alt.flame, ne.internet.services (circa (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Partsref Update
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(...) I have all the time in the world, I've just proven myself to be either too dumb to follow Steve's instructions or incapable of accurately explaining my problems with the process. :( If anyone can figure it out it's Steve. When I finally got to (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) AUK is defintely alt.usenet.kooks. I have spent some time there myself, it is definitely a flame group. The entire purpose of the group is to ridicule, well, "usenet kooks". People that post there generally get there in one of two ways- either (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Membership link ideas
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(...) Heh. My first thought was that it would 'benefit' more males than females. That's defining 'benefit' as 'use the feature'. Steve (26 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I worked on this a bit last night. The process needs just a bit of additional functionality, and I'll be able to whip through all the desired colors. Steve (26 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Todd Lehman writes: <snip> (...) <snip> Todd, You are totally right in doing it. You were more than fair giving him a chance to cool off. I do regret you were brought to the point of cutting him off, but it had to be (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Fells like that? whoa... Thank you Todd, I feel like you shouldn't wait this much..:-) I personally believe that if I can't find anything to say for an individual's behavior other than "what kind of an *** **** are you?" (I know much better (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Spam alert!
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(...) That's pretty sick. Is there any way Todd could add a terms of use for the LUGNET website for everyone -- members, non-members who post, and people who neither post nor are members?? That way he could legally forbid email address harvesting (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.admin.terms)
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There's been another case of harvesting... I got an email at work today about an egg farm for sale in Qld region. The seller actually stated where he got my details: lugnet.loc.au.qld.mac [I think that's right.] He said he got it while looking for (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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