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(...) I would say don't ignore them if they annoy you. Instead, reply back and let the person know that you're annoyed. Also bcc me if you like -- that way I get a sense for how much it's happening. I think it's becoming more and more likely that (...) (26 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Email me <lehman@javanet.com> and I'll help ya fix it. --Todd (26 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Be logged in(1) to the web interface and you should see a selection dropdown below the article. Make your selection and press the "submit" button. I think there's a way to do it from NNTP but I am not sure. I never use NNTP any more. 1 - you (...) (26 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"kai brodersen" <cbrodersen@mediaone.net> wrote in message news:G7yEn4.Jrq@lugnet.com... (...) Log in to the web interface with your member number. View an article on the web interface and at the bottom there will be a drop down list box that will (...) (26 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hey, I'm a member and I went to my Edit Profile page, and my Full Name and Birthday were non-editable. How do I correct mistakes here? Thanks, El Capitan -- (26 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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How do i highlight an article (i am a member) thanks kai (26 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) OK, let's talk about subgroups of .market.* -- I gather you want a specific area that you can call UK-specific? I wonder how many other countries would want this? (AU and probably CA come to mind.) --Todd (26 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Heh. Well, it tells me several things! It tells me that the people you've talked to are closed-minded, impatient, unimaginative, feeble, unalert individuals; that they are perpetually either unable or unwilling to understand and appreciate (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Jason J. Railton" <j.j.railton@cwcom.net> wrote in message news:G7wBn4.6qG@lugnet.com... (...) American, (...) delivery (...) they're (...) already (...) or (...) will (...) We went through this discussion a few months back. I asked for a (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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Nice work, Shiri! Todd, can you change the link here: (URL) Dori" <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:G7w1A5.6Gz@lugnet.com... (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.admin.general)
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"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G7uCor.Fs4@lugnet.com... (...) paypal@lugnet.com (...) support. (...) Thanks. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. (26 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Except one. (Todd). Grin... Of course, you work for Netscape. What do *you* know about how the web is supposed to work? I mean, it's not like your company did anything to popularise browsers, turn standards into practice, or make one of the (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) A different way of naming pages that seems wrong to EVERY SINGLE person I've talked to. Doesn't that tell you something? If the UI is counterintuitive, change the UI if possible, don't try to change the users. In this case, changing the UI is (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Different, yes... you could even say "unconventional", which is what Tom is saying. Unconventional is not alway "wrong". But when you break a convention you should have a good reason to do so. Users not needing to remember to type .ftx on the (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Heh :) (...) Ok. (...) Alright, I get it. -Tim (26 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) If it were a directory, it would have a traliing slash and then it would also be a shorthand URL for the index page of that directory. I think you're thinking about it too hard. If a URL has a trailing slash, it's a directory (or the index (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G7uH6z.4K8@lugnet.com... (...) Cool. (...) Oh, ok, I read the statement wrong then. Silly question - but I feel like asking it anyways :) Why is it a page called images versus a directory (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) With very high accuracy, yes. (...) Yes. (...) No, there *is* a page called 'images' there! You can click that URL above and go there. (...) Because that's not the URL syntax for FTX pages. Extensions aren't used -- they're useless baggage. (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) counterintuitive relative to most sites is precisely because of the above. (...) "Wrong"? LOL. (...) It's just a different way of naming pages. --Todd (26 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G7uDtL.IHw@lugnet.com... (...) Any way to differenitate between the two? (...) Hmm...could it? Also, if you're trying to eliminate links to slashless directories, why not put a notice on the (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) ^^^...^^^ file (...) Durrrr, that should say, "and at the same time a *file*"... --Todd (26 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I wouldn't say "incredibly inefficient," but definitely wasteful and inefficient. It's no big deal for occasional hand-typed URLs, but it's extremely annoying for links. (...) I agree completely, and in the case of hand-typed URLs (where (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) IIRC, you can cancel any payment that hasn't been claimed. Check your PayPal outbox. If there's still a problem, write PayPal technical support. --Todd (26 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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<snip> (...) bad.) Ut oh I think this is what I did. Any solutions? -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. (26 years ago, 26-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Thank you very much. Scott Member 718 (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Done. --Todd (26 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Allan, When you say that your credit card has been charged, do you mean that your credit card company confirms that PayPal charged it and transferred the money to your PayPal account? Any credit card issues are stictly between you and PayPal (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd, Can you add TennLUG (Tennessee LUG) to the the United States Organizations? This will be greatly appreciated. Rich Thompson will be hosting our website as soon as it is finished. Thank you. Scott Thomas Member 718 (26 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) c/be/have been/ as I am done... :-) (...) Me too, and it does. :-) ++Lar (26 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I haven't been following this thread, so I'll have to plead ignorance. I just happened to note these couple, and threw in my two cents. For the most part MS bashing probably (IMHO) belongs in off-topic.geek or at least off-topic.debate, but (...) (26 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) We seem to have been having a "followup war" in that different people set followups in this thread to different places. I tend to agree with you that .admin.general was the best, and I think I *did* set FUT .admin.general on several (? at (...) (26 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Perhaps lugnet.fashion should be set up for bashing Microsoft - as it is a rather fashionable thing to do. I was reading the other day (can't remember where) that "having a go" at corperate Ammerica is a big part of US culture in general. I (...) (26 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well, this whole thread has been mostly in the wrong group (the MS bashing certainly didn't belong in lugnet.general). (26 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Thanks to all who replied. I've been in the process of moving some my sets over to the private list for the past few weeks. It's frustrating because many of the messages were just downright rude, not even a signature or anything. Oh well, -chris (26 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I haven't gotten any demands or requests about selling a set, but I have gotten some fairly weird requests about instructions, etc. I view it as being part and parcel with choosing to publicly display the sets you have- it's a choice you make, (...) (26 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I have received two inquiries. The first was of the "can you help me find this?" and the second added to that "can I buy one of yours?" (I am paraphrasing.) I commiserated with the first (pneumatic tubing) pointed out that Shop At Home existed (...) (26 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Larry Pieniazek <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G7KAE9.MFt@lugnet.com... (...) I didn't (and don't) dispute your rights. (...) a (...) his (...) I don't accept that at all. Anyone who wants to express their opinion in a public forum (...) (26 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I've gotten requests (no demands, so far) several times... I think it's because I'm the first (or close to the first) listed for most sets I'm in. I generally reply with about the same level of politeness as they gave me, and tell them I'm not (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Christopher Tracey" <ctracey@envirolink.org> wrote in message news:3A6CAC91.C9CBC5...ink.org... (...) demands!) from people reading my set lists on my member page to sell (...) trade. (...) done about it? Should I even care? (...) I haven't (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I have noticed I seem to be getting more and more requests (and even sometimes demands!) from people reading my set lists on my member page to sell them sets that are clearly listed as ones I own and not ones I am willing to trade. Are other people (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) You know what, I think you might be right. That may well be the "official signature" but I can't say for sure as I don't think it's codified somewhere easy to find. Happy to stand corrected, though, if someone knows differently. ++Lar (26 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I agree. (...) At times there are formal "Todd & Suz" type posts. I may be wrong, but I think these are always announcements? Scott A (26 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Whoops, typo: Fix this: Is he claiming that's the view of the membership as a whole? It certainly isn't. I'm pretty sure it is, but clarity is essential. to read: Is he claiming that's the view of the membership as a whole? It certainly isn't. I'm (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) And why shouldn't I have the right to point out irrational anti MS bias? Especially when it's posted in a non useful way, as I said. Todd does have a special responsibility to keep the line between his private persona and his public one (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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"Shiri Dori" <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:G7JFp5.9sE@lugnet.com... (...) A bit confused with this statement... (...) No, it wouldn't. Member benefits would still be the same, just when you signed up to post, you would get a member (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yeah, there's similar-names problems too, like Mark Nelson and Marc Nelson, Jr. (which confused me at first until I met one of them in person). -Shiri. (26 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) The newsgroup doesn't exist, but quick check shows that the articles *are* still accessible - from here: (URL) www.- prefix instead of news.- prefix.) So Todd simply never moved the articles to news.lugnet.com . Interesting. That makes me (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) When I say "a large percentage" above, I mean that roughly, say, 80% are crystal clear match-ups. That leaves, say, 20% which aren't, and should be checked by hand. As there are 5200 registered 'From:' lines and 850 members, we're talking (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) To me, too - cool idea. And I can definitely see usefulness, finding your own posts, finding people's pages without multiple searches, etc. (...) Yeah... After all, how many discrepancies do you forsee/approximate within less than 1000 people? (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) This has been a problem ever since the first search function back in 1998, and I'm sorry for all the confusion it has caused when articles labeled "Canceled" show up in search results. In a feverish moment of clarity the other night, I thought (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Sounds good. (...) Good idea there, but - (...) If only a few need to be matched by hand, then why not take that approach and the rest by hand may not need to be matched? Are you going to take the approach we discussed - assigning EVEYRONE a (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It would be a preprequisite, yes, since the association table which would map 'From:' lines to member id's (and vice-versa) would make the rest much simpler. Once that's done (and I haven't begun to attack the problem yet but am becoming (...) (26 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) put it up for me. HTH ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (26 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) We all appreciate the effort and work that has gone into Lugnet, and our lives may well have been changed after visiting it. I thank you for your hard work, dedication, and time that you have spent on all of us. THANKS TODD! Now go see a (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) <grabs phone> *beep boop beep beep boop* Todd: mmrruuh? Mark: Hello, can I speak to Mr. Seymour Butts? Todd: Wh-huh? Mark: *cackle* <hangs up> ;^D ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin -- Mark's Lego(R) Creations (URL) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Todd, the system here is more reliable than my office network. I think we can all appreciate your hard work. I certainly do, my hat's off to you. (...) Geez, get some rest. I think we'll all live. (Although I did feel a little light-headed (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) The memory upgrade is now complete -- although it wasn't 100% successful. The system's motherboard was reluctant to recognize any DIMMs in the 3rd slot, meaning we failed get to 768 MB and we are stuck with only 512 MB. It may be a faulty (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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(...) My apologies -- this didn't happen today as planned. My guy at the other end of the line (where the lugnet.com box is co-located) called in sick yesterday and today[1], so the upgrade is postponed. I'll post again when we have a new date and (...) (26 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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Todd, (...) I am really sorry about that. I will *never* do that again without your permission, you have my word on that. About user agent, let me check the documentation. The documentation don't say, but I guess it has "asphttp" on it. I am using (...) (26 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) without first obtaining permission from the site's administrator or owner. It can be tempting to resort to such things, but fetching pages rapidly can cause a terrible load on a webserver, depending on what you're fetching. Crawlers or spiders (...) (26 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd, (...) I didn't knew the existence of the (URL) so I came up with a VBScript that uses a generic HTML parser that I wrote (for metasearches websites) to extract data from the Sets Guide and put it into an Access database. The result (very poor (...) (26 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) What are you parsing? --Todd (26 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) These lists are updated when the data changes: (URL) (26 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I would think it would need and benefit from its very own ng. --Todd (26 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Paul, I just double-checked the transaction history at PayPal (via the Download all activity option)... There aren't any payments bearing your name. Did someone else pay for you? How about double-checking your outgoing-payments folder? Perhaps (...) (26 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Except for anything directly targeted as feedback to LEGO Direct, it's probably time to migrate the discussion to .off-topic.geek. --Todd (26 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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When will there be a .HarryPotter newsgroup? The sets should be out this fall, but it's not too early to start speculating! Or will this be folded in with .Castle, since that is where much of the speculating is going on. Just curious, Kevin (26 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I have to agree with Bryan. The problem with newsgroup spamming is not the initial groups the first post is sent to, it's not setting followups correctly. In this case the poster gave it some thought and did the right thing. Let's not flame (...) (26 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I wasn't so concerned about the order it appeared in (which I beleive is ranked by what best matches your search criteria, not time-based), but the fact that it displayed partial content for an article you can't actually view. I don't mind if (...) (26 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Amy Hughes writes: [mercifully deleted] IMHO, he set the Follup-To: correctly so all the responses would go to the right place. He was trying to let everybody know about a page that contains building ideas that could pertain to many different themes (...) (26 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Could we take this off-topic ranting about corporations to another newsgroup? Please? Todd, is it time to put a foot down? FUT: lugnet.admin.general (26 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) This appears to happen to me too - all the older stuff shows up 1st. I'd imagine a good default would be newest 1st???? (...) I have noticed the search also picks up the content of cancelled posts - or at least the old method did. Scott A (...) (26 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Sure, just criticize my choice of groups to post into... The reason for this large amont is because i posted my first post about the Ideas Page in the same groups, so i wanted the second info drop in the same one, so that the same people could (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Sure, just criticizemy choice of groups to post into... The reason for this large amont is because i posted my first post about the Ideas Page in the same groups, so i wanted the second info drop in the same one, so that the same people could (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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hey todd, i paid for my acct by paypal but i haven't heard anything about my status is it still pending? or active? thx much -paul (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd and Suzanne, I wrote a parsing script and now I have a properly Access database with all the sets on LUGNet. Can I use them in my BrLUG web page? TIA, -- Felipe G. Coury Gerente de Desenvolvimento Creation Internet Business (URL) o (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Gah. Clearly, should read lugnet.admin.council. -e (26 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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After reading Tim's post about "My recent posts" I went off and did a Lugnet News Search on "Lorbaat". The first post that turned up was posted to admin.terms.council- which of course no longer exists. Since you can't access the posts, even after (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd - What about adding a section to the member profiles which will list the 5 most recent articles a member has posted? Or, allow them to highlight their favorite posts - such as MOC postings for people to click directly to from their profiles? I (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) No problem. I have to add RichLUG to the map anyway so I will do this soon, hopefully by this weekend. Just let me know when your domain is registered and you have something up. (...) I like it a lot. It definitely reminds me of the Brazilian (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Eric, (...) to (...) just (...) add (...) Thanks a lot for that. I think you should include Brazil as a whole. But please note that we're just starting. I'll have some nights 'til the webdesign is ready and the domain registration is in process so (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Felipe, I know I am not Todd nor Suz but I do update the LUGMAP at (URL) I would like to add BRLUG to the map. I need to know if I should include all of Brazil or just a small section. If it is just a small section could you let me know where you (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Dear Todd and Suzanne (for what I know you're the LugNet guys, right?), I recently got back to LEGO addiction after a 5-years dark ages. I am impressed about the world community has been formed around it and I am very motivated on making something (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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todd, i am an experienced I.T. person. I've done everything one can do in I.T. actually (architect, engineer, webdesign, programming, admin, etc etc ). I used to run nortel.com I'd really love to be able to assist w/ lugnet plz let me know if (...) (26 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G79FyJ.Ev@lugnet.com... <snip>...Downtime should be about 15 minutes. (...) Little optimistic! :) Everyone knows that to determine the true time taken to perform a hardware upgrade is (...) (26 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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A whole 15 minutes? I hope I can last that long. But seriously take all the time you want! Waaahhhh,lol. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G79FyJ.Ev@lugnet.com... (...) This (...) (26 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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On Thursday, 18 Jan 2001 at approximately 5:00 pm EST, lugnet.com will go offline briefly for a memory upgrade (adding another 640 MB of DRAM). This will involve shutting down the webservers and newsserver and physically powering down the machine. (...) (26 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G74zGr.CJG@lugnet.com... [snip] (...) ISP?), (...) I've talked to my ISP about site problems such as the ones Paul Baulch describes, and they say it's not uncommon to experience a lot of delays (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) No, it just never completed a write operation -- random bad luck in a section of unsafe code that assumes that power won't go out or that the system doesn't melt down. I rebuilt it from redundant data in the data matrix but it should still (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) rebuilt (...) "burp" (...) memory (...) One thing I just found out - for some unknown reason my computer's clock was back exactly one day. Was the data inconsistency time-related? Would there be A) a possible (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Paul -- thanks. Yes, I've seen this before -- I know what to do. It's detected an internal inconsistency in your data for that set. I just rebuilt it from the redundant data store. I believe this happened during the "burp" that occurred a few (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Apologies if this isn't the right place or if it's been mentioned before, but... I am running IE5 (Version 5.00.2919.6307), and when accessing the URL: (URL) of the page loads normally, except the member-related stuff below is absent and I get the (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yes, everyone posting mecha stuff: please set followups to the .build.mecha group when posting -- don't clutter the main .build group with mecha stuff when there's a focused group for it. Or even don't post to the main .build group. If someone (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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I hate to sound like a party-pooper, but... I'm not interested at all in mecha. There's a lugnet.build.mecha especially for mecha. Do they *have* to be posted to lugnet.build itself as well? Especially since they produce such long threads of (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.admin.general)
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Cary, (...) Thanks for the information. It seems that having different True Name and News Name was the problem. Changed them to the same and all seemed to work (I am replying via OE now). Really thanks! Best regards, -- Felipe G. Coury Gerente de (...) (26 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) From (URL) , follow "LEGO Set Database" Then scroll down to the bottom and select "(Catagory tree)" James (26 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Is there something I'm missing? I can't find a tree structure to narrow my search in the LEGO guide. I had to wade through over 200 train entries to find the "Road 'N Rail Hauler" because I couldn't remember it's name, and searches of "container", (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Neat. I guess I've just never noticed before, and assumed (yep, I know) it was updated on the fly. Thanks! James (26 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) You probably just looked too soon. The thread information for the web display is only updated once per minute or so. --Todd (26 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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