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The system crashed again. Either it's running out of memory and that's causing a downward spiral or it's running out of CPU cycles and starving enough processes to build up and cause a meltdown. Either way some tuning needs to be done. This is going (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Re: Error in Hash Database again?
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(...) I think this can happen when a post sits in the sender's outbox (perhaps because they are offline) for a while before it is posted - I am pretty sure it is listed by sent date, but the age is based on when it reaches LUGNET. Does that make (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Error in Hash Database again?
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(...) I was just popping over here to report that! (URL) example, is currently showing this post as 21 minutes old (URL) the very next post in its list is shown as 24 minutes old (URL) is from yesterday... (26 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Error in Hash Database again?
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Todd, Is this why there are posts from Dec 8th mixed in with today's posts? Jude (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Error in Hash Database again?
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(...) Thanks. There's something wrong with the incoming sendmail daemon. This happened once before. When it's fixed, your mail will probably appear as a post. --Todd (26 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Error in Hash Database again?
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Todd, FYI: I started getting errors while posting using e-mail again, starting Thursday, 12/7. I received another one today, so I thought you'd like to know. The error is as follows: <<< 451 Cannot open hash database /etc/aliases.db: Inappropriate (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Brickwise Report
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(...) Another idea: How about putting the date/time it was last updated into the report. It doesn't look like it's updated that often, and it would be nice to see how old it is before wasting my time clicking on prices which are no longer (...) (26 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Please fix link...
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(...) Wow, done already - you are fast. Thanks, -Jon (26 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd: I finally got around to signing up for a little news-by-mail... Then it occurred to me. What I'd REALLY like is: 1) to be notified every time someone replies to a posting I've made, and not eveything that goes into a group. and 2) To be (...) (26 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Please fix link...
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(...) Okie diddly dokie. --Todd (26 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Please fix link...
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Todd - Could you please fix the link on: (URL) BAYLIT? Change it to: (URL) ever so much, -Jon (BAYLIT executive) (26 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Another Outage?
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Did we apparently have another outage just now? No response from the server for a block of time, and when it responded, the newest post was 58 min old... It could be a perception thing but the outages seem to be increasing in frequency to me. Should (...) (26 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Brickwise Report
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"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G59120.HBD@lugnet.com... (...) And (...) Sorry for the brain fart--somehow I missed that "Shop" link that I've already followed before. I realize there is a .shopping link from the main page, (...) (26 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Brickwise Report
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(...) They're both already there. --Todd (26 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd, how about adding a link to Brickwise from the main Lugnet page? And to .shopping as well? -John Van (26 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Cool LEGO Site of the Week
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Hi, Please tell me if I'm posting this to the wrong place. I was wondering why the "Cool LEGO Site of the Week" Hasn't been updated? Since i've gone through every "links" page that I can find on the web,this is the only way I have of finding new (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts
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(...) What he said. :-/ Thanks, Franklin (26 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: unscheduled outage
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(...) The culprit seems to be a database table that got horribly fragmented on disk over the natural course of activities in the past year. However, that in and of itself wasn't the problem. The problem was the way the table was being periodicallly (...) (26 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | unscheduled outage
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lugnet.com experienced an unscheduled service outage today which, according to the logs, lasted for approximately 68 minutes from 15:02 EST to 16:10 EST. I'll have to scour the logs later to hopefully get to the bottom of what caused the problem. I (...) (26 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd- Quick "style" issue with the map that I noticed - it's "body" color (or background) is not explicitly set to white (or whatever color you want) - so on all of my systems the main background color is a gray with splotches of color for "Regions" (...) (26 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Private boards?
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(...) I understand what you mean, but if someone asks me what's the NNTP server for LUGNET, I'll still answer "lugnet.com". It's not news.lugnet.com, or nntp.lugnet.com, just "lugnet.com". Steve (26 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Pause News-by-Mail
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I asked about this sometime ago, but the article seemed to have gotten lost in a great debate that was raging at the time. I was wondering if it'd be possible to provide a single switch to pause the News-by-Mail feature. This way you wouldn't have (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Libertarian debate in danger of pollution (was Re: Will Libertopia cause the needy to get less?
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Perhaps we should consider providing .debate as only an overspill bin for debates from other groups. This would prevent, to some extent, those who wish, at a whim, to create noisy and unproductive debates the ability to do so? I doubt it this will (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Private boards?
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(...) Nope, lugnet.com is not an NNTP server. lugnet.com is a second-level domain name. The machine which identifies itself as lugnet.com is a FreeBSD box which is _running_ an NNTP server. (Servers are software, not hardware.) The same physical (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Posting setup problems
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(...) Unless you're using a spamblock, the email addresses need to match. If bram@cwru.edu is a valid email address that you can receive mail at, enter that in both fields. --Todd (26 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Posting setup problems
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Todd, Whenever I try to set my posting address to bram@cwru.edu on the posting page, I get a LUGNET server error email back that says email mismatch or something like that. How can I get the server to accept bram@cwru.edu? It's a valid alias to my (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Private boards?
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(...) And the server name for that NNTP service is lugnet.com. So lugnet.com is an NNTP server. Steve (26 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Intellects and proper venue for "cyclic debates"
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(...) Damn spall checker - Intelligence. Your interpretation of my lazy spell checking conveys the same point. (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Libertarian debate in danger of pollution (was Re: Will Libertopia cause the needy to get less?
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trimmed lugnet.admin.general and lugnet.off-topic.debate from the FUT, added lugnet.general (...) I like verdigris as a color name but given that TLC has introduced several colors now with the saturation value turned way down (blue-gray and (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Libertarian debate in danger of pollution (was Re: Will Libertopia cause the needy to get less?
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(...) Absitively. I couldn't agree much more, although it *is* rather sobering sometimes. (...) Verdigris? Didn't he do the soundtrack to 'Chariots of Fire?' I actually like that a lot. So what do we call the LoM grey-pink-- rouxigris? :) (I still (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Intellects and proper venue for "cyclic debates"
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(...) "inelegance" ?? Do you mean in the anorak sense? I had always thought that the thoughts produced by those I regard as truly awesome intellects tend to be, on average (not always, of course) be *more* elegant than normal. Thoughts that when you (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Libertarian debate in danger of pollution (was Re: Will Libertopia cause the needy to get less?
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(...) Hmm. I suppose it depends on what you mean by average. I assume you are just rating myself, and others, against your own above average intellect? Perception of intellect is an area which always exasperates me. I find that people mix these (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Libertarian debate in danger of pollution (was Re: Will Libertopia cause the needy to get less?
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(...) Well, I can tell you my perception has changed since I accidently fell into a debate recently. You know those people who have an inner smugness from the knowledge that in any given gathering of people they are generally smarter than just about (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Gah. Don't you have a day job now, besides correcting me? :D eric (26 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Private boards?
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(...) (d'Oh!) LUGNET is not an NNTP server. LUGNET is the international network of user-groups of LEGO products. For the benefit of LEGO users and user-groups worldwide, LUGNET runs an NNTP server on lugnet.com for NNTP news/discussion groups, an (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Private boards?
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(...) D'oh, right. I tend to forget that Lugnet is really a NNTP server, since I use the web connection. eric (26 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Membership Packets
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(...) Todd, Thank you for personally responding. I am glad to hear that the membership packets are indeed still being distributed. I can only imagine the amount of time this must consume. Thank you for your continued efforts. Sincerely, Ken Wright (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Lugnet Contribution Idea? (Was: Re: Membership Packets)
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(...) Maybe it would be too much overshoot for the job, but last week some computer company send me an advert. It featured a special laser printer, with he size of an HP 2100, having three separate magazines for advert brochures/cards, letter (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Libertarian debate in danger of pollution (was Re: Will Libertopia cause the needy to get less?
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(...) No! I disagree! Etc etc. :) Darned UUs! Any forum is only as good as its practitioners. Since LUGNET went 'live' I've operated with the assumption that .debate matters stay in .debate, and expect others to do the same--I've only once seen what (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Leakage from .debate
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(...) No, it's a good point. I was wondering about that myself. I, of course, would like to think I'm nifty! enough that I don't let how things go in one group influence how they go in another, and especially not to the point of lambasting a (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Leakage from .debate
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I don't want to drag another thread into the discussion about .debate, but in the following post: (URL) says: (...) Larry - I'm curious, do you feel that your response to Christopher may have been more harsh than it may have deserved to be, perhaps (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Libertarian debate in danger of pollution (was Re: Will Libertopia cause the needy to get less?
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(...) I would like to see .debate be able to exist as something worthwhile, but I sense that with each debate which explodes into a ravaging god vs science debate, we lose another of the folks who are interested in serious debate. I'm not sure how (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Libertarian debate in danger of pollution (was Re: Will Libertopia cause the needy to get less?
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(...) Oops. My bad. I should have caught that, but as you say, I was away for what has got to be one of the biggest weeks on l.o-t.d and was racing to mow through hundreds of posts. At this point I'm overwhelmed and haven't even looked at the (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Libertarian debate in danger of pollution (was Re: Will Libertopia cause the needy to get less?
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(...) Some thoughts: - I've wondered if .debate should have a no-crossposting rule, except for crossposting in (which can easily be checked, for a post to be accepted which is cross-posted in .debate and any other group, it must be a followup to a (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Libertarian debate in danger of pollution (was Re: Will Libertopia cause the needy to get less?
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(...) It leaked over here when a .debate novice set FUT incorrectly to point here just because something funny was said. I set the FUT back in my reply, but of course, once ONE post appears in a group, you always run the risk of latecomers missing (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Lugnet Contribution Idea? (Was: Re: Membership Packets)
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(...) It's not possible, no. Security and privacy issues as well as technical logistics. What I need to do to break the bottleneck is change the way I print cards. Most of the steps of the other stuff are automated but there is a manual step with (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Lugnet Contribution Idea? (Was: Re: Membership Packets)
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"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G4zvoG.A4G@lugnet.com... (...) members? (...) Todd, Since it seems that the packets are behind often - what about opening up the task for members to do as a part of their donation to Lugnet? (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Membership Packets
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(...) Good question. Yes. Unfortunately, we're behind on printing and mailing. On the other hand, they're only a formality rather than a prerequisite to interaction. I appreciate your patience. --Todd (26 years ago, 3-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Membership Packets
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I was wondering: Are membership packets still being distributed to all paid LUGNET members? I know this was being done when the first 100 or so members signed up, and it included (from what I read) some pretty neat things. Since only a few people (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | migrate private set list to public list
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Is there any easy way to migrate my private set list information in my membership webpage to the public list. I added it all as private (use to privacy on the NET) without thinking clearly about it :) Todd or whomever maintains the web forms, I (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Private boards?
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(...) I think it was a technical issue. NNTP groups aren't easy to make private without password-protecting connections, etc. --Todd (26 years ago, 2-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Clones Database (was Re: MB sightings)
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Richard Schamus wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> (...) Gosh, I hope not. Yes, at some point a fraction of each places contents could be made obsolete by TLC's site, but some things to consider: - I doubt TLC will have a better interface than either site. (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Private boards?
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(...) Some groups I am in use it as well, we use many of those features and the price is great. Have you figured out how to get egroups to emit a digest of all messages still archived? We have so many messages that the web interface is a bit much, (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Private boards?
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(...) FWIW, since Todd never answered, I'll poke my nose in and say that at an early NELUG meeting, we asked Todd for something similar, and he declined. I can't remember if it was a technical issue, or a Lugnet-focus issue, though. eric (26 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Private boards?
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(...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Where can I post? (was: Can I post a WTB Duplo item here?)
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(...) I think it's reasonable to post a request like that in Duplo. I think it is OK under these conditions: 1. The item you are buying/selling/trading doesn't appear often in BST 2. The newsgroup you are posting to doesn't have a lot of traffic. I (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Private boards?
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(...) Can't help you with lugnet, but for wamaltc and wamalug private communications, we use egroups[1]. I'm not completely happy with it, but it does allow you to run votes, store files, and manage a calander... in addition to web posting and (...) (26 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Can we add technic.slizer?
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Help! The Throwbots, Roboriders and Bionicles have no home! Since the Bionicle theme indicates that these guys are here to stay, can a group technic.slizer be created for them? -gyug (26 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Private boards?
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Okay, so here's a question. Is it technically possible, and/or feasible to have private, possibly password-protected boards set up? The reason I ask is that my local train club does its internal communications by email, and it is quite a burden on (...) (26 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Web interface cancels (was Re: Let's define what an auction announcement/update is)
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(...) Ug, that's kinda gross. I think the cleanest way is what someone suggested earlier: When you request that a post be cancelled, the server simply send a confirmation e-mail to the person who posted the message. If they get the e-mail, it proves (...) (26 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Web interface cancels (was Re: Let's define what an auction announcement/update is)
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Do we have numbers on relative mail/nntp/web POSTING usage? (...) NNTP already allows cancel. It is possible for someone who knows the NNTP protocol to forge cancels, I believe, but I am not sure. I would be OK with web cancel only working when you (...) (26 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Web interface cancels (was Re: Let's define what an auction announcement/update is)
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(...) One amelioration for the rogue cancel problem would be for the web interface to "stash" a cancelled post somewhere safe. Lots of variations on that possible. In addition to the stash, send it in email to the address given in the posting (...) (26 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Web interface cancels (was Re: Let's define what an auction announcement/update is)
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(...) Oh? I could easily be wrong-- being a still-starting-out web programmer my browser's cookies are always being rewritten, etc, so I'm not sure. But I thought that there were something like three different cookies that Lugnet can drop you? - (...) (26 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Web interface cancels (was Re: Let's define what an auction announcement/update is)
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(...) eh? the only way you can get an id cookie is by putting in the confirmation code, isn't it? Also, if you can cancel messages only by you, and only if you're logged in (have to be a member), that's pretty secure... No way to get the member (...) (26 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Web interface cancels (was Re: Let's define what an auction announcement/update is)
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(...) Not really, although it can be. The problem being mainly that the web interface will still let you post if you don't have a cookie. It can actually give you a new one in some cases. So if I post a message as Bob Shmoe, I can get a cookie as (...) (26 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Web interface cancels (was Re: Let's define what an auction announcement/update is)
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(...) I think it could be cookie based (he said, while simulteneously knowing nothing about cookies). After all, posting identity is cookie based, is it not? Do we really need to worry about "rogue cancellers" cancelling all kinds of Lugnet posts (...) (26 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: STUPID QUESTION?
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(...) Awesome! :) When did this start working? I swear, it didn't use to do this... And exclusion works, too. Put "-cypress" to ignore all those expensive parts. This is Most Cool. Too bad this doesn't actually answer Dave!'s question. Searching for (...) (26 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Web interface cancels (was Re: Let's define what an auction announcement/update is)
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(...) Agree. Taking away cancel from NNTP would probably be a step backwards-- I don't want to stoop to the lowest common denominator... But it'd be nice to be able to cancel things via the web interface, or at least things posted via the web (...) (26 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Web interface cancels (was Re: Let's define what an auction announcement/update is)
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(...) For what it's worth, I agree with both of you(!!) inasmuch as getting cancel rights to the web interface, although if it's not possible for one reason or other I wouldn't want to see it taken away from NNTP. eric (26 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Let's define what an auction announcement/update is
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(...) I agree with Larry(!). If nothing else, I'd like to see equality between web and nttp posters - even if we have to take away the nttp right to cancel. Scott A (...) (26 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Let's define what an auction announcement/update is
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(...) Please reconsider providing a mechanism for cancelling web originated posts that is more automated than "send Todd a note in email and hope he sees it". ++Lar (26 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: STUPID QUESTION?
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(...) The only amendment I'll make is that having a quoted string be a search word (not regarded as two) would be helpful-- If I'm looking for posts about THE classic castle, the search string: +classic +castle may very well show me a lot more of (...) (26 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: LP POINT 3.2
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(...) If Todd were to think that I am being deliberately disruptive in this group, I'm sure he would just stop me from posting in it. If I were being deliberately disruptive in this group, I'd expect to be stopped. But the fact is, I'm not (...) (26 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Query regarding the <set:foo> function
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(...) Cool. Thanks for the fast fix. James (26 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Query regarding the <set:foo> function
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(...) (26 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Query regarding the <set:foo> function
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(...) using a greedy match where it should have been using a non-greedy match. The "<snip>" that appeared earlier on the line confused it. Thanks for reporting the err. --Todd (26 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Query regarding the <set:foo> function
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Hi Todd, I'm curious as to why this worked: (URL) this didn't: (URL) (26 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Is it time for lugnet.build.sculpture ?
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(...) Maybe there sh/could be a direct link to .build from the LUGNET home page? "Check out what other fans are building, or post about your own creations!" (...) I think the problem is for people to *find* .build. Once they've gone that far, (...) (26 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Preview: LUGNET T-Shirts, Mousepads, Coffee Mugs
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Just curious...will the Mugs be available anytime soon? TIA, Jason "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:FwuI3E.ICz@lugnet.com... (...) color-matching (...) itself (...) logo (...) the (...) shirts (...) of (...) and (...) aren't (...) (26 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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How does your shop function "pick up" that a store sells a particular set. For instance Etoys and Wal-mart are carrying the 8458, but it doesn't show up under the shop function. Please explain. Rose (26 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I noticed a significant increase in speed when loding pages today, especially the front news page. Also the pages load different than before - the whole page just pops up when its done loading. The effect is like setting Response.Buffer = True in (...) (26 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: "jump.cgi" considered harmful ? (1)
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(...) It seems that slow DNS is the culprit if Todd is right. Why does cutting and pasting make it go faster? If Todd is right, you would have to pay the same DNS price either way. Or is it just a perceived speedup? Well, I've set FUT o-t.geek to (...) (26 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: dead link?
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(...) Yes. This is now a dead link. I had to take it down a few weeks ago and neglected to inform anyone. The purpose of the page was simply to show that OmniRemote for the Palm could be trained with IR commands from the IR tower or MindStorms (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News/Discussion Group Traffic (Fri 24 Nov 2000)
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(...) Can you tell it was a US holiday? ;-) Jude (26 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It isn't just you. I notice the delay as well on every machine I use - fast or slow, on every connection I use, fast or slow. Last time I looked into this (and I think posted about it) it seemed fairly obvious the biggest delays were had by IE (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Did I just say that? Oops. That's wrong. There isn't any jump.cgi in the context of NNTP -- only HTTP. Duh. So it's never more than 1 DNS lookup in the case of NNTP and never more then 2 DNS lookups in the case of HTTP -- and in practice, it (...) (26 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) If you're reading via HTTP, then it's only one resolution because your client will already have resolved www.lugnet.com. If you're reading via NNTP, then it may be two and it may be one depending on your DNS cache. (...) With a typical URL, (...) (26 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well I suppose the nub of this is, if we accept LP's assertion that it is slowing things down, is the cost of doing this worth the benefit. Is the data being collected because it can be collected, or because it needs to be collected? Scott A (...) (26 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Let me try to be clearer. (...) This is almost certainly what a lot of it indeed is. Using jump.cgi theoretically doubles the latency since two resolutions are required. But it's not ALL the delay, some surely, is at the server itself while it (...) (26 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It's not to track stats on who goes where, although an evil server that wanted to do that could probably do that. Its purpose here is to track how often the where's are being gone to relative to one another and from what pages. It's the (...) (26 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I’m no expert on this, but I’m pretty sure that, above a certain level, the end users hardware will not affect the problem you mention. The slowness will occur somewhere between the LUGNET server and your computer. For what it is worth, I have (...) (26 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Are you sure it's not latency in DNS resolution? That is usually a big factor in how fast a page comes up. A good test is to try the same link again with your browser cache turned off and see what happens. While I understand the usefulness of the (...) (26 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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As preface, for those that don't know what the LUGNET jump.cgi does... It is a way to track stats on who goes where. For example, when I type (URL) into a post, the web interface rendering technology shows the URL in different text color/font and (...) (26 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Is it time for lugnet.build.sculpture ?
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Henry Lim wrote in message ... (...) postings (...) Surely that group would be for discussions of how to build sculptures of Eric (our hero!) Kevin (26 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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It doesn't bother me to have a sub-group. What with the sculptures LEGO now offers (giant mini-fig, Statue of Liberty), it seems like a legitimate category. However, what we really need is a lugnet.build.ericharshbarger for his postings and (...) (26 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Is it time for lugnet.build.sculpture ?
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The issue with fractioning groups is that a fan must scan more groups to find new MOC's. I only build mini-fig style models, but I like to look at pretty-much everything else. I think that the mecha sub-group is a good idea because it is a HUGE (...) (26 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: New Themes
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(...) may (...) this (...) I still find it strange that "Life on Mars" is at the same level of classification as "ClassicSpace+SpaceP...itron+Expl oriens+UFO+Insectoids..." You can't accurately classify all the animals if you just have orders, (...) (26 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Is it time for lugnet.build.sculpture ?
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(...) As a minor player in the sculpture arena, I echo all of Eric's comments quoted above. Andrew (26 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build)
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