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(...) I got the same message last night - but nttp worked fine. Scott A (26 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) But when I first looked at my message after posting, there was nothing below the message, no threading, no 'In reply to'; and when I looked at the original message, mine wasn't in the threading. I must not be wearing my tinfoil hat this (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi Todd, I just notriced a weird thing happen to me...A message I posted via the web interface didn't thread properly... (my message) (URL) I was answering) (URL) ideas? James (26 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Oh. Just for a second, I thought maybe Lugnet was getting a special edition LEGO element. eric (26 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) No. --Todd (26 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd Sorry if this is the wrong group. Has LUGNET been incorporated? By this I mean as a non-profit organiztion. It might qualify as a educational organization. Are there any lawyer AFOLs who could comment on the advantages/disadvantages of this? (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) OK, thanks. The first one sounds like an error message from an nntp daemon and the second one was the server voluntarily cooling itself down from a high load. When an active system runs out of physical memory and begins swapping to disk for (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) When I tried to use NNTP from NS Communicator, I got the "out of memory" error (sorry, I can't recall the exact text, but I think it was the error I was seeing during the outages in December before you shut down the news search). A while later (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Thank you, yes. Did it really say "out of memory" or was it a "server temporarily unavailable due to heavy load" message? More DRAM memory going in hopefully later this week. Not sure yet whether it's going to be an additional 256MB, 512MB, or (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yes. By design. (URL) Wouldn't this be a problem for Outlook Express users? How does (...) (URL) => .admin.nntp] (26 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) follow-ups (...) Would this have meant that posts without Follow-ups set would have been rejected? Wouldn't this be a problem for Outlook Express users? How does one set FUT in Outlook Express? Can one? Or is it a feature that MS have decided (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Lugnet burped again with the dreaded "out of memory" error again. It seemed to recover pretty quickly though. Just thought you might like to know. Frank (26 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) OK, there's now a "retire all old passwords" option here... (URL) one that you want to keep, it looks for a match and whacks the others. --Todd (26 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Shiri, You can be the first to try the new "retire all old passwords" option: (URL) tell it which one to keep, and it purges the others for you. You can then add a second or third one back if you like...or just keep one. BTW, it's (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | RE: Model Team scale Lamborghini Diablo 6.0
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Todd, could you please cancel this message, and the one quoted below? I hit send to soon... --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) -----Original Message----- (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Send me an email tonight and I'll wipe out the lot. (*Don't* mail me your password.) Because they're stored encrypted, there's no way to wipe any one out selectively unless you know what it is. Then you can set up the one you want to keep (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Member Passwords - how to purge ones you can't remember?
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Hi Todd, Quick (or not-so-quick) question. How can one purge passwords that one cannot remember? See, I just added a new pw and was notified that I now have no less than 5 passwords. Gee! I had no idea. I don't know, I guess I just forgot to retire (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Sorry i didn't realise there was a group just for auctions. Humblest apologies to all.. -- Jason King LugNet #665 jklugnet665@optusnet.com.au Franklin W. Cain <fwcain@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:G6rz8G.CFB@lugnet.com... (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) [SNIP!] For future use, please be advised that the only newsgroup in which to post auction announcements is ".auction". This is clearly spelled out in the LUGNet "Terms of Service". Thank you, Franklin (26 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Not setting followups correctly (was Re: Blonde female minifig hair - does it exist?
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(...) Totally agree. I think we discussed this recently in admin.general, and the consensus is that once the initial post has followups set incorrectly it is very VERY tough to fix later because every single person has to realise there is a problem, (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Further pulling this discussion on another tangent: Another of the new Duplo sets appears to come with trans-dark green Duplo train tracks. Unfortunately, it only has straights, so the Emerald City Express will have to run on a linear track. (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad)
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Hi Todd, In order to encourage some thought about set design ( by TLG as well as by Lugneters and AFOLS) I was considering posting a few ideas of my own about where TLG/TLC should head in the future. Howevr I wanted to do this in the form of (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Todd, Can you fix the links to my sites from CLSotW? Thanks (26 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Random swing from left field... One of the new DUPLO sets (3095 Wildlife Park) does have trans blue DUPLO 2x4 bricks... (26 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad)
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(...) --DaveL What's up downunder: (URL) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) Oh -- actually, what search engines typically do on queries (and I just finally added this last week) is downvalue relatively common words and upvalue relatively uncommon words -- what's called "term ranking" or "term weighting." For example, (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ya. Set the followup-to field to lugnet.publish, I guess. --Todd (26 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Broken Link
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Geocities changed their naming conventions. Any links to my website will need to be reset. Simply delete the tilda, "~", before Ed Boxer ("www.geocities.com/...ego.html". I would like to crosspost this to .announce , .town , and .castle. Is that (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G6K5vr.IFK@lugnet.com... (...) posting (...) Good point. Follow-up posts don't bother me as much, since I use a newsreader, but they would muddy the .dat waters for web browsers. We (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) As an algorithmical guess, I think I'd probably attempt something a bit different... If someone enters: the I'd probably want to ignore it. But if they entered: the best design I might want to consider the 'the'. Dunno. I'd probably test an (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ya, exactly -- first name the URL components carefully and then put a user- friendly level on top of it. Best of both worlds. (...) Ah, I see. Yeah, that could be helpful in certain cases, if you're scouring tons of results! I've needed to (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) Wow! So you have terms for the ampersand options in a URL? My standpoint on this would be to put everything in a form and kill 2 birds with 1 stone - not having to think of how to name URL terms (unless you enjoy doing that) and having the (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) oops, doy! I didn't put in the propagation of that URL term. I don't consider it 100% "documented" yet (it's still subject to change without notice), but I still shouldn't have missed that. Thanks. I'll fix that. The reason it's subject to (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) It works great! ... but the &qs doesn't carry over to the next page of results. So if I want to see more pages, I have to edit the querystring on each page. Since you already have the inner workings of this in place, it would be really easy to (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ooh ooh ooh... One thing I really really want is to be able to put messages into folders (if anyone knows of a decent newsreader which allows such - please let me know - it would be preferable that it do so without requiring me to store the (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Article bit-flags (was: Re: News search function reactivated)
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(...) Oh, one other thing...planning ahead: Another potential application of article bit-flags is read/unread lists on a person-by-person basis via the web interface. I know this is something that people have been asking for for a long time. When (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd, Please cancel this post of mine: "(URL) Thanks, Franklin ===== Franklin Cain (and please do *not* call me "Frank" ;-) fwcain@yahoo.com | (URL) Control means HITTING YOUR TARGET!! ((URL) armed society is a polite society." -- Robert A. Heinlein (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) Ya, something like that'd be good to slap on top after the base functionality. :-) Nobody wants to *have* to remember how all the squiggly and square brace thingums in a search box work. :-) (...) Ya, precisely. It was originally (summer of (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) Ya, let's see...as it assembles the text to index, first it grabs X-Real-Life-Name:, then it grabs either Original-From: or From:, then Subject:, then Keywords:, then Summary:, and then finally the non-quoted and non-sig parts of the body. So, (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think a multi-field advanced search is the way to go...much easier to use, IMO--something like the DejaNews power search: (URL) actual search keywords are in one field, and then there are numerouse ways to limit the search. --Bram Bram (...) (26 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Do you index the name in "X-real-life-name"? One thought, index the special strings "from:" and "subject:". The the search: from: ffilz Should rank my posts highly due to proximity. Of course it would be better to index the real life name as (...) (26 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) One thing which would generally make it pretty easy to find URLs is to index "http". When dealing with special characters, definitely treat "/" and "\" as word separators. Probably ":" also. (26 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) Pretty much... actually, I was thinking more along the lines of an advanced search form though: Search for: ___...___ (uses +'s and -'s as is) Search for text in subject line [] (checkbox) Posted by: ___...___ (uses +'s and -'s... or no (...) (26 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) Sure! (...) These are mostly covered already due to the way the indexing works -- words closer to the beginning of a document are given higher weights than words occurring later in a document. When the indexer chews on a news article, it first (...) (26 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) <snip> (...) I would have to concur. (...) < goes away and tries it... > Umm - Would it not make sense to simply include the appropriate qualifier on the system side? (I tried it and got two year old results for "qs", but I'm probably doing (...) (26 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) Not yet, no. See "to-do soon" section in previous post. (...) For now, if you don't mind URL mucking, you can manually append &qs=<number> to the URL and it will use that number (in seconds) as a time delta. For example, to limit posts to the (...) (26 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) Could you tell us the URL syntax for those of us willing to modify URLs? (26 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) Could I suggest some amendments to the "To do someday" list (for an 'advanced search' only)? - Search by author - Search by subject line contents - Search by date range (or open-ended-- i.e. after date X or before date X) - Search for articles (...) (26 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) Very good! Although the new search doesn't return most recent articles first like it used to. Is that how it should work? Now I can't see most recent posts that contain the keyword I want to search for, which makes the search pretty much (...) (26 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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The LUGNET News search function is now re-enabled. I completely revamped the index data structures and list-merge algorithm and rewrote the core query engine in C. It's a much more solid implementation. Everyone's patience during the outage is much (...) (26 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.announce) !!
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Just a note to let people know that I've thrown together a bulletin board type page, with essential links and upcoming events listed. Any suggested improvements? I thought that the local LUG pages and this effort of mine could be handy resource (...) (26 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.admin.general)
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Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. <arcanamachi@netzero.net> wrote in message news:G6C9FM.Lqu@lugnet.com... (...) Kenneth, Glad to hear you 1) believe in Lugnet and 2) are supporting it :-) Yes, I got your email, and you're welcome. -Tim (26 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Can you give an indication of when and IF they are going to be available again? Alex (26 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Hey Todd
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Thanks, I must have mis-read something. More than likely I will be sending $10 a month. 8) Tim, did you get my e-mail I sent thanking you for your help? -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. who supports things he believes in. "Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com> (...) (26 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Hey Todd
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Kenneth, An FYI - the $10 membership fee is a one time only donation. There is no monthly fee. Lugnet does rely on support, so feel free to give more as you are willing and able, but realize that a monthly payment is not an obligation. -Tim Kenneth (...) (26 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: news.lugnet.com enhancement request
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And on newsgroup pages, (URL) , you could right justify the time/date on the same line as the group heading "Admin/General" (...) (26 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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But I like the layout, content of (URL) way I have my fonts set, it looks like you could add a line under the "News" (lugnetnewslogo-100x150x64.gif) graphic. You could have the image then immediately under it say "at 12:00 PM Dec 28, 2000". This (...) (26 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: news.lugnet.com enhancement request
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(...) It would be very easy, but space is tight on the homepage. Have you tried the Traffic page? (URL) (26 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Hey Todd
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Hey Todd, due to a problem with Paypal, I will be sending out my $10 for December and my $10 for January after the new year. It will be in a Money Order. Just letting you know because I go a notice from the Lugnet Server. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. (...) (26 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: news.lugnet.com enhancement request
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Todd, any comments? (...) (26 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Small feature suggestion for web-based new-reader
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(...) Try this: Type your set number/name in the search box at the top of the page, then select "LEGO Set Reference (Popup)" in the drop-down list. When you click "Search" it should come up in a new little window. --Todd (26 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Small feature suggestion for web-based new-reader
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Todd, It would be great if a direct link to quickset were available on the news-reading screens. I was thinking about a link in the header that fires off the quickset applet. Or perhaps, a search box in the header. Either would be great. I surf (...) (26 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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First, Thank You Todd and Suzanne for making Lugnet. Second, I hope you both feel better. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. grateful Lugnet newbie (26 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Hello?
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(...) I ate a whole bag of oranges in two days. :-) That plus lots of chicken noodle soup (extra salt and cayenne pepper added :-), chocolate chip cookies, Alka Seltzer cough and cold medicine, and TV (Star Wars videos and Battlestar Galactica (...) (26 years ago, 26-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Hello?
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(...) The good news is that I have this week off at work (intersession between semesters) and seem to be on the recovery. --Todd (26 years ago, 26-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I fell ill on Friday with a mild sore throat which turned into a full-fledged winter cold/cough/fever/congestion thingie by Saturday. Been sleeping about 16 hours per day since and reading. Just starting to feel better now. Got all the stuff (...) (26 years ago, 26-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.space, Suzanne D. Rich writes: <snip> (...) Hope Todd feels better soon. Orange juice and TV therapy works with my kids for most things. [that and snuggling with the cat.] Keep well Suz... sheree (26 years ago, 26-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I miss it too. Todd has been sick for the past few days (melted body on sofa. Star Wars playing over and over...), but we know it's a high priority issue. -Suz. (26 years ago, 26-Dec-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Hello?
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(...) I think Todd said he's trying very hard to get one working that doesn't hog out the box. I'd rather the site was available with the search engine working, too. It's quite frustrating. I find that I have been posting a lot of "well I seem to (...) (26 years ago, 25-Dec-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Uselessness of .debate
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(...) the 24th is our big day, lesser activity today. That's because that's when the holidays fall on the calendar (similar to Washington's birthday being on a monday, but not really)... on the 21st I was still on the road. It's also because we have (...) (26 years ago, 25-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Uselessness of .debate
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(...) I agree, but on the other hand, calling today the solstice is incorrect. Why not celibrate the solstice on the 21st? Out of curiosity, Larry, do you celibrate the WS today, or on 21 December? Why not Newtonmass? Chris (26 years ago, 25-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Uselessness of .debate
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(...) Well, I'm writing this on December 25th in a hotel room before we go spend the day with family and I don't take what Larry said as a snipe on Christianity. The celebration of the Winter Solstice predates the celebration of Christmas by a good (...) (26 years ago, 25-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Uselessness of .debate
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(...) What Larry said. Just that the two of you opt to keep .debate around. Chris (26 years ago, 24-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: This is weird.(about .debate)
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(...) I started the thred in both .debate and .admin.general because I felt there was an issue with how Lugnet is run, and the effect .debate has on the whole of Lugnet. Perhaps it wasn't the right thing to do, it certainly did grow beyond what is (...) (26 years ago, 24-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | This is weird.(about .debate)
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Hi, Why are you guys debating the uselessness of .debate in the admin.general group? I would think you would do this in .debate. Anyway I thought it was kinda funny. Cheers! Gary (26 years ago, 24-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well, for my own part, I think the debate has turned a corner. Perhaps we've convinced Larry and Scott A to back off a bit, and I think the current dicsussion is actually bringing up some interesting points, and doesn't seem as much to be (...) (26 years ago, 24-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Uselessness of .debate
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(...) Ah, Larry, always throwing a few snipes in to Christianity, huh? I expected nothing less, that's all right. (...) Folks, all I responded to was Frank Filz (SP?) discussion about debate, and according to what he thought, I agreed with him. I (...) (26 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Uselessness of .debate
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(...) The way it's written one could almost read it as he hopes that you two have a lot of fights with each other, rather a mean thing to wish so close to Winter Solstice festival, don't you think? :-) So I'm doubting *that* is what he meant. (...) (26 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) About what? --Todd (26 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Can the two of you please take all of this offline to private email? --Todd (26 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I read your other post, and you made some groovy assertions. I suppose I'm as guilty of "point-scoring" as anyone else, but I wasn't consciously doing it to amass points. Sometimes it seems to me simply polite to address each point in turn, (...) (26 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ... (...) Well, Larry, surely you spend a lot more time reading these newsgroups than most, so perhaps only a few have ventured down to this part of the discussion tree. If you like, you could refer to the post in (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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For future use, *all* auction announcements are supposed to be in ".market.auction", and *not* in any of the "themed" directories. Franklin (26 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snip> Whoops. Forgot to trim lugnet.admin.general from followups, please, if you respond, do trim your followups even though I forgot to. ++Lar (26 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Paul Baulch writes: <snip> I snipped the whole thing rather than responding point by point. I'll summarise my stance as follows: Great post. I'm disappointed that no one else commmented yet. Is it because everyone agrees (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Or in this thread, unless one is trying to prove that people can't keep .debate topics in the right place. (26 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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Scott and Chris, this has surely got to the point where it no longer belongs in admin.general. Kevin (26 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) "theft"? (...) If others have opinions which are based on emotion, rather than reason, it does not assist understanding. One should have a reasoned argument, not just gut feelings. To call taxation “theft” is not helpful. (...) Oh yes. (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I do not. I think it is potentially very valuable. But that depends on the way in which it conducted, like all issues of debate style. If you throw out questions that seem disingenuous, people think that you're sniping. (...) so. (...) I agree (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) We British are a subtle bunch Chris. (...) I really do not think I do "insult as a debate tactic". (...) It is pertinent to highlight that an individual may not have a belief on an issue, but may still question that of others. Or do you (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) rights, (...) valid, (...) What does that mean? :-) (...) to (...) then (...) Scott, I think that Larry meant you specifically, and others who behave similarly. I think that's clear. But at least his insult to you was thinly veiled. It would (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) <tummy tuck> (...) Chris, The paranoid part of me makes me think that Larry’s text above is, at least in part, aimed at me. The irony is, off course, that Larry’s well chosen words are nothing but contradictory subjective prattle themselves. (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I see the potential value in .debate, but the way it has started to go recently, I find I am getting frustrated and angry more and more frequently, to the point that I'm not getting anything out of it. One problem is that potentially each time (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Not sure of the answers to either of those, at least not in an idealised society. (...) I think my threshold is somewhere around large tanks and fighter jets. Any sort of nukes just sort of "feel wrong" to me. It's a fuzzy argument. (...) (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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Frank Filz wrote in message <3A3F972C.2F1C@minds...ng.com>... (...) Having followed a great many debates here, on Usenet and in my workplace SPAM forum[1], I have watched some of the greats[2] at work such as the legendary Derek Smart, and our own (...) (26 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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Yes, if you post to .lsahs, it requires a followup when sent via NNTP. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (26 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Agreed. (...) Out of curiosity, how does one show that and to whom does one make such an appeal? Use the example of strategic nuclear holdings. (And as an aside, do you feel differently about tactical nuclear weapons?) (...) I think that this (...) (26 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think this is a specific instance of a more general principle, one we've stumbled over repeatedly on vastly different topics. A says "I tolerate/enjoy X" B says "I don't tolerate/enjoy X" So far so good. As long as X doesn't intrude on B, B (...) (26 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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Thanks!!!! Rose Rob Doucette wrote in message ... (...) would (...) (26 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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