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In lugnet.lego.direct, William Wong writes: <snip> Aww nuts, try to ignore this version, "1 month | 4 weeks". Todd, this looks like another instance of this: (URL) (26 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) This is kinda wild, a change from the current setup, but how about creating a lugnet.productline hierarchy, and put all the (play)theme-groups under that? The current upper-layer product ng's could either stay where they are, or move to the (...) (26 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.space)
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FUT lugnet.duplo (26 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.space)
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(...) I?ll just answer this point. It is ?toolo?. The only reason that it is not called toolo is to do with the way toolo was marketed to retailers the first time around. Before the release of toolo, it was hyped to retailers as ?the next big thing? (...) (26 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.space)
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(...) Yah, its gotten pretty messy from a differentiation point of view. It seems like the current mode is to have 2 or 3 continueing themes like Star Wars, Adventurers, and Town and to have 1 or 2 one off themes that have expected and planned one (...) (26 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.space)
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Brad Justus of LEGO Direct approached us last week with a bold new idea: He would like to allow the community to design its own collection of LEGO branded items, to be sold online by The LEGO Company through a third party such as CafePress.com, with (...) (26 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.general) !!
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(...) (I'm assuming you mean the newsgroup hierarchy.) That's a Good Question. A Tough Question. A year ago, I wouldda said, "Yah, fer sure," but today I'm a bit leary of adding more upper-layer newsgroups because LEGO seems to be phasing out LEGO (...) (26 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.space)
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(...) Well, I'm not one of the people building big (awesome!!!) sculptures, but as an admiring fan, it would be great if there was a newsgroup that would catch all (or most) of them, making it easy for me to search (and drool). :) James (26 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build)
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(...) Todd, I'm flexible. I'm fine with the structure now. If a .sculpture subgroup were added I would probably still post to .general .build and .build.sculpture (with follow-up to .sculpture). There are certainly issues with building that are (...) (26 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build)
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(...) EricH, HenryL, etc. -- what do you think? Would this help or would this contribute to unneeded fragmentation? Do you read .build reguarly? If not, would you read a .build.sculpture regularly? I think it's a great idea, but only if the (...) (26 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build)
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(...) <snip my own stuff> Yes, I meant the newsgroups. It was early in the morning, I totally forgot about the guide. Oops. :-) Jude (26 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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The Theme Heirarchy? The sets themselves have already been added, and they DO show up here: (URL) were you talking about for newsgroups? (...) (26 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Just a thought because of all the great Sculpture's that have been showing up lately from Eric H. and Henry L. and others. It seems worthy to me although I don't know about how others feel about further compartmentalization. I love the stuff and (...) (26 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd, Now that new themes are showing up in stores and in our collections :-), it may be time to add Studios and Life on Mars into the theme heirarchy here on LUGNET. After all the LOM comments are falling into .space and we all know this is not (...) (26 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) it, you should be able to find it on almost any palm computing software site. I used to cruise them pretty regularly, but the only one I can think of offhand is the one you can link over to from www.tucows.com. eric (26 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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On (URL) —Robert Eddings" (URL) to be a dead duck Scott A "dead duck" - Such a strange phrase (26 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.palm, lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd, How do we go about getting a new entry added to the Lugnet Guide? I recently was lucky enough to buy several copies of the 3758 Purple Brick Bucket on sale, and I would like to add it to my set listing. The Purple bucket looks like the non (...) (26 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Cool! I'm supposed to be going there too! Though to the linux/unix security :) Perhaps I'll bump into you there :) FUT - o-t.geek (26 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Wow, almost the same title as my current job, same title as the one I've applied for in the NT/Unix group here at UTK. Current job is primarily NT support, as would this other one be, but with more opportunities to get involved in the (...) (26 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yup -- that's correct -- you're the only one who ever normally sees them. I happened to see it when I looked into some of the raw DB data to track down the bug. (...) It was a bug. So was the technical problem last week. --Todd (26 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi Todd, again you impressed me with a way more detailed answer than I expected and again I'm not entirely sure that I understood everything. As long as I could help supporting it's fine though :) . (...) (eleven) (...) the (...) Oh, yes! There are (...) (26 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Aha! OK, then I see now how the ASCII 0 got there! :-) :-) When the low- level CGI stuff on the server receives two copies of the same field, it pastes them together with and ASCII 0 separator into a single string. In an HTML, the only time (...) (26 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Good Luck (was - Re: error message!)
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(...) Good luck with your new post. I can't say it is a great time of year to start a new job, but it is a good time to have extra security - especially if one is thinking of getting married soon. ;-) Don't work too hard. Scott A (26 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Down for means up for? :-) In the short-term, I'll need to save up my vacation days for wedding stuff (no hard date set yet but thinking early 2001) so that restricts the flexibility of weekdays for a while, but I think there are paid holidays (...) (26 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Welcome back to the world of salaryman (was Re: error message!
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: <snipped details of what sounds like a very cool gig and great fit for Todd's desired parameters> (...) Speaking of fuel, though, are you down for short short (a day or two) high pay consulting gigs if (...) (26 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Thanks Todd, everything now works fine again, please excuse that I have stolen your time as we all know you have so much to do. I didn't entirely understand what excactly went wrong, but I'm happy it's okay now. I don't think that I entered an ASCII (...) (26 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ya -- systems programmer/analyst at the BU (Boston University) Office of Information Technology (same place Matthew Miller works). Very laid back environment, very Unix/Linux/Solaris. (...) Once I get settled, I may actually be able to devote (...) (26 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) day job?? ! Can you tell us more? IIRC you were planning to do LUGNET full time till your burn rate got the best of you, are you at that point now? ++Lar (26 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Christian, The error message was an internal consistency check -- the system noticed that an element of the cross-reference data in a two-dimensional matrix (that's what the "m2" in the assertion failure stood for) was inconsistent. As near as (...) (26 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I had a couple of messages bounce.. they did finally appear (2 days later) since my server seems to keep trying to resend the message for 5 days. The last day or so I haven't tried so we'll see with this message what happens. Tamy (sent saturday (...) (26 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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Hi all (espacially Todd, I guess), I recieved a few Duplo sets today (no big deal) and wanted to add them to my Lugnet Member Set List. After having pushed the 'Submit' button some kind of error occured. I am not sure wheter my data was accepted (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi Kyle (...) Now this idea i like, would save both buyers and sellers time, buyer not getting spammed by items that are too expensive for him and of course sellers time not having to mail somebody he knows straight out isn't interested at that (...) (26 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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[UPDATE] In the past few hours, *EVERY* post-by-email message I've sent in the past *SEVERAL* days has been (finally) showing up and posting to LUGNet. I'm still confused as to *WHY* I was having this problem... Thanks, Franklin (26 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) This might be a good item to add to the list of possible new features for lugnet. Each set could have a link near the list of people who'd like to buy the set that would mail the sublist of those people who have stated (either set by set, or (...) (26 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd, Both of my accounts, ssanburn@cleanweb.net, and ssanburn@sanburnsystems.com are getting the same error. I was going to try to sign on and retry the e-mail settings, let's see if this goes through. Scott S. -- ----- Original Message ----- From: (...) (26 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It may be related to an error I was receiving when posting by e-mail. I posted the following message and Todd replied to the effect that he was aware of the problem and working on it. See this message: (URL) Lynch (26 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Has anyone else been having a problem with posting to LUGNet via email? For the past several days now, I have been unable to post messages via email (i.e., by sending an email message to [newsgroup-name]@lugnet.com; e.g., (...) (26 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Incorrect group posting [was RE: cartoonnetwork.com is having an online contest]
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Paul Davidson wrote in message ... (...) on (...) Ha! Try using a newsreader application instead of the web interface, and that's EXACTLY what one has to do with the threads being FUT'ed all over the place! It's frustrating at times, how so little (...) (26 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) True, but that is mainly because if no 'dev' file exists the webserver assumes you meant 'dev/'. It's similar to that when you're typing www.abcd.com[1] it is assumed you mean (URL) even though ftp://www.abcd.com/ would be a correct URL too (...) (26 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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A little bit of digging shows that LUGNET Memberships were launched one year ago, and as of last count 664 people have chosen to formally show their support. How has this fared with your expectations, Todd? Is it time for us to dig a little deaper (...) (26 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general) !!
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(...) Although it is a common, accepted practice to notice that .../cad/dev is actually a directory, then redirect it to the proper URL. For example, under Apache mod_rewrite .../cad/dev is usually automatically rewritten (and redirected) to (...) (26 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Andy, Thanks for the note. This started around the time of the load spike a couple days ago, I think. Probably a lot of people getting these. :-( Looks like a file needed to process incoming mail went corrupt. Outgoing mail still seems to be (...) (26 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Lars C. Hassing" <lch@ccieurope.com> wrote in message news:974106662.77473....cci.dk... (...) [snip] (...) slash at all! (...) It's a convention. .../cad/dev points to a file and .../cad/dev/ points to a directory. If directory browsing is not (...) (26 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd, I tried to post using e-mail twice this morning, but the messages never arrived at Lugnet, nor did I get an error message from Lugnet. Just a few minutes ago I recieved the following message, and thought you may want to hear about it. -Andy (...) (26 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Two or more slashes - well, I find it annoying that I have to type any slash at all! If I type "news.lugnet.com/cad/dev" I get the answer: Oops! The page you requested does not exist: (URL) However, a similarly named page does exist: (URL) is (...) (26 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Good news. It turned out to be a bug in some of my own code. It was hard to find but easy to fix. Technical details follow. I was able to reproduce the symptoms of the problem by asking the webserver for a bogus URL that confused it, for (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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Maybe that kid you all were so mean to a few weeks ago is now getting his revenge? I hope not. John Matthews Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G3u303.yI@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) attack (...) trying (...) It (...) certain (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) No -- the load from something like that would still be very low relative to something like this. Something like this is either a very sneaky DoS attack or the server stepping on its own feet due to an internal bug. I highly suspect the latter. (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Is it possibly related to someone address harvesting? We know that is going on here. -Erik (26 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Any reason you're using Apache 1.2.6? That's quite a few versions back... (26 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) was, given that since Lugnet was responding slowly, I was swapped out to other tasks and just leaning on the retry button every few minutes to see if it was back. Good luck with your bughunt. I hope it's not a DoS attack. ++Lar (26 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm digging to isolate the problem. It's not a capacity limit problem -- the normal load on the server is moderate. It's something else, most likely a bug in the webserver somewhere. I caught three httpd processes spinning, each using 33% of (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I had several instances of "server busy, try later..." as well as seeing that the traffic report is "all quiet" across the board again. Are we starting to push the capacity limits of Lugnet(tm) or are there other issues behind the scenes? I'm (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Twice today in the past two hours, the load average on the lugnet.com server has shot up to extremly high levels. Normal activity is between 0.5 and 2.0 or so during the day. It spiked up to 300 twice today and then back down to normal levels. I (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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(...) Check back in about a half hour. I'm re-running it now. I'm having trouble accessing certain sites, which is causing the data not be updated, and there are no expiration or "last seen on such and such date" checks. I think the whole TRU thing (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Is Brickwise being updated?
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I was just noticing that Brickwise seems to be very out of date for some things. I was researching the price of the 3033 Blue Tub and noticed that the prices on Brickwise were all wrong. For example: The price shown for KBKids is too low by $1.10. (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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| | Re: Growth
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(...) not (...) In searching for a potential new ISP, I came across a document that supports all of my own personal reasons for not posting much to Lugnet. While this document refers to Usenet, the basis for the reasoning is similar. (URL) Salm__ (26 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Eng Wee Lean writes: Disclaimer: I ain't the admin here, just some galoob that hangs out here more than he should. What I say ain't definitive, that's for Todd. But I bet I'm mostly right in what I say below, as I am usually (...) (26 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.terms)
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To James Brown, Mark Sandin and Rose Regner, Hi! I believe all of you have received his e-mail. This message "Sales for castle and space models" was posted by me. I am trying to help this fellow to clear up his castle and space models. From his (...) (26 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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About this Marg Ng spam. Last week I notified several email authorities as part of my routine spam cleanup. Within a few hours I got a personal message from a support guy at Hotmail agreeing that spamming was a violation of TOS and that Mark Ng's (...) (26 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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I have noticed in the last while that most requests to improve LUGNET have been implemented almost immediately. And I feel it is appropriate to take a moment to say thanks to Todd for keeping on top of things and letting us contribute to the (...) (26 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: questions regarding added feature
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(...) No plans currently exist for that, no. --Todd (26 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) No I don't. I have ordered from a couple of people on Brickbay, however. ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (26 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Sales for 1980's castle and space models
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(...) <him being Mark Ng - I snipped the bits where that was explained> (...) Yeah, but you have a store on Brickbay, right? That means he can go into your store and "Contact" you though the on-line form, delivering his spam thusly. I got (...) (26 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Sales for 1980's castle and space models
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Well, I just got Spam from him too. :^( The return address was "service @brickbay.com" but I don't recall ever buying anything from him on brickbay. ~Mark (...) (26 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Sales for 1980's castle and space models
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What is with this guy posting to general all the time. Rose Eng Wee Lean wrote in message ... (...) those (...) set (...) address (...) ---- (...) (URL)2. I can say the condition of parts are 'acceptable'. (...) in. (...) my (...) or (...) Please (...) (26 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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| | Adding link to FAQ
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Todd, Can you please add a link to (URL) on the FAQ page. As a new user I would look for a something like that on the FAQ. Jude (26 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) you mean not subscribe by mail to a newsgroup-by-mail (which you currently can do), but only "subscribe" to specific threads? Interesting idea, and I can see where it would be useful... I could get quite messy administering it, on the user (...) (26 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | questions regarding added feature
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I was just wondering, for those of us who view Lugnet from the web, if there were any plans on incorporating a feature by which one could have replies to threads emailed to a designated email address? I can imagine, if everyone used this, that (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Heavy Load
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I know you like to get things like this, sooooooo.... At 10:03 EST*, when trying to access Lugnet, I got the following error message (several pushes of the reload button long, a span of maybe 30-45 seconds): (...) Just FYI. eric (26 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Building manual on sale.
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(...) Todd, Are you going to finalize the change in TOS limiting all market activity to appropriate groups, or finalize that you won't be making the change? I hate to see people keep tripping over the TOS. Everyone else, I strongly suggest you read (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.terms)
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| | Re: Building manual on sale.
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Sorry Eng, I generally don't like policing things, but as far as I know, posting messages regarding sales and/or auctions to the groups other than lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade and lugnet.market.auction. And I believe you should immediately break (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Selecting top stories
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(...) Perhaps if you provided some side benefit to voting, more people would do it. I know that I voted a lot with the older system, because there was a lot finer gradation. But with the new system, I can't remember the last time I decided an (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Selecting top stories
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(...) *puzzled* I think you missed the context, which was that maybe messages should get marked up slightly just for having a lot of responses. (I'm not convinced that this would really be a good thing, but it's an interesting idea.) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Colons in URLs (was: Re: Growth)
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(...) :) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Okie dokie, I just fixed the page-generating scripts that were using ":" in the URLs. I switched the to commas "," . (Colon ":" still works of course for sdrawkcab compatibility. :-) --Todd (26 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It wouldn't matter -- a zero or "- - -" vote is an "undo" or "null" vote. That is, only "Highlight" and "Spotlight" get counted; submitting "- - -" is like not submitting anything. This prevents things from being marked down super-low. --Todd (26 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Selecting top stories
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(...) Sure, but say there's twenty people who did this.... (26 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) They might very much dislike the earlier post, and they'd give it a very low rating. Maybe they discovered a typo that they couldn't resist pouncing on. Maybe they like to type a lot. Steve (26 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Then why did they bother to reply? (...) I'd do it, except that I read LUGnet with a newsreader. I started hacking rating support into slrn, but then I got distracted. (26 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Todd Lehman. :) (26 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think that's a great idea.... in the web interface, add the vote pulldown menu to it, so you can vote with the same "POST" request... for email and NNTP (which currently can't vote, and can't even see the votes), allow either a custom header (...) (26 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I've noticed that most messages get very few ratings. But I'm not sure that counting followups can replace ratings, because someone posting a response to a message doesn't indicate that they feel the message is important or newsworthy. (...) (26 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It appears so. :) Unfortunately not everyone plays along with the standards. (26 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) ?? The port has to right after the resource, as in (URL) so I thought, anyway. ++Lar (26 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd, Since most members don't seem to rate messages very often, I had an idea to help pick top stories...Can you keep track of how many replies a message has? If so, then a lot of replies to a fairly recent message (fuzzy sorting again) would (...) (26 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Me too. I agree. (26 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I probably didn't explain it right... The example that you give above works, but something like (URL) because it thinks that song.mp3 is the port number. Other failures include (URL) it would try to connect on port 100. As Todd pointed out, (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) You're correct, "multiple" can be different for each of us. OK, how's this? I think Todd's search limit is similar (maybe same code) to the search function for the set database... I'm proposing that it be over-ridden for these links. But even (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I was not sure when I first asked. That is why I asked. :-) You raise some good points below. I think, in retrospect, that LUGNET must have its own natural ceiling. Above that level, readers will get less out of it (due to loss of sense of (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Sorry, I was not clear. I meant the changes within the last twelve months. Scott A (26 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) wow, so a properly formed (URL) won't work? That's pretty bad. (26 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) No, it's highlighting the right part. Hm, if I right click and select "Copy this link location to clipboard" it gets the right thing. Hmm, if I right click and select "Open this link" it puts the right URL into a browser window, but still gets (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Although I've come across many client applications that don't get it right; xmms is the first one that comes to mind, as it assumes anything after a colon in the URL is a port number, no matter where it shows up. Chris (26 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Are you saying that since there are more members you expect more posting traffic? Personally, I hope not. While I expect that everyone should feel comfortable posting their views, opinions and any information they have, I am not particularly (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) No -- the port goes immediately after the domain or machine name, not at the end of the URL. --Todd (26 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) it's trying to open the url (URL) port 8265, probably. isn't that part of the standard? (26 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) You mean that NS 3.0 on AIX/X11 thinks that the trailing > is part of the URL? Wow, I thought only MSOE had that problem. Well, that's good to know. --Todd (26 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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