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(...) Katie, I love your style! It's good to know that someone supports my effort, and yes, tere is no such thing as too many places to talk about our beloved LEGO®. Harvey Henkelman-Certified Ferroequinologist LUGNET member #400 Founder, ELTC (URL) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Harvey, I don't see a problem with ELTC! In fact I already joined. What's wrong with having multiple groups on different things? I belong to so many different groups. Some are list serves, some are Yahoo groups, some are Smart groups. And no (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Out of all his spew there is one tidbit worth noting. It's when he said, effectively, "if you don't want to give me attention, just ignore me". Good advice. David, I suspect no one thinks any less of you because you had your ID swiped, or (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I agree. I like the idea of a United Kingdom Lego Train Club - but not one on Yahoo or the like. Scott A (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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moulton (verb trans.): To assume another's id on LUGNET, without the permission of the user identified in the "From:" field. Neologism, just coined. (URL) (already canceled) (URL) anytime you get a chance to implement a web-based cancel facility (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well, why? For a .market.brickshops (I like that too), any person announcing a new store could post. Dan's posting or lack thereof would be his own business. -Shiri (25 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I like this idea. (Brickshelf has an .announce subgroup) (...) I like this idea even better! (Brickshelf, unlike Brickbay, isn't likely to get competition...) However, for this to work, Dan has to be able to make time to post stuff. He may (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Maybe that's what I'm getting at-- exactly *what* is he forming, and *why*? To me, LTCs are not virtual; in fact, they are quite the opposite. Instead of LTDs hanging out together online, it is LTDs hanging out together *in public*, sharing (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Kyle, you hit the nail right on the head. When I conceived of the ELTC, I invited people to join knowing that membership is their choice. I intended ELTC to supplement LUGNET, not replace it in any way (God knows my website-making skills are (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Speaking purely as a noser spectator here ;] I don't see the problem in somebody "unilaterally" forming a group. Sitting around and waiting for a group of people to build consensus on how to form a group is like, well, sitting around and (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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I'm glad you mentioned that, Huw, because I was thinking the same thing. I also was wondering about utilizing such a wide-scoping name-- Sam, have you discussed this with anyone, or is this some sort of unilateral move? Personally, I feel that if (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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"Sam Hastings" <samjh@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GEs6zt.A1x@lugnet.com... (...) Personally I fail to see the benefit of these 'breakaway' Yahoo discussion groups. I am perfectly happy talking with US Lugnetter's about all aspects of LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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I know this has come up before, but I'd like to request a new group dedicated to BrickBay. Since BrickBay has its own discussion forum, this would likely be limited to shop announcements and BrickBay status, for instance when it is offline or (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yup, quite a few people have done this in the past. For example: (URL) also remembering seeing a post from somebody who did a statistical analysis using a large number of tubs to look for variations. It linked to a web site with pretty bar (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.admin.general)
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I do not know if there is a inventory for this set but if you have brought one of these sets and think that someone has got to it before you here are the amount of each brick, cheers black blue green red white yellow 1x1 20 40 12 40 40 40 1x2 28 60 (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.admin.general)
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I can't get in touch with him mmmm, I might have to cancel the order... -- Michael Please reply on medwards@ukonline.co.uk Lugnet Member# 151 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Lego Magazines from the Past (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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i was wondering why you posted personal info on other guy in here. hope other guy isnt too upset. -- And they said 'Computers will never be in general use' "Michael Edwards" <medwards@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message news:GEIqyI.5qH@lugnet.com... (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi, I noticed that the URL in the article below (URL) not get recognized as a an URL, even though it follows the standard set in RFC1738. Well, only the first part of the URL gets recognized. See the section "APPENDIX: Recommendations for URLs in (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) You are correct. ;] It's pretty nifty. KDJ ___...___ LUGNETer #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada (25 years ago, 30-May-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) You are correct. I joined about 2 months ago (member #1000) and received my password by email one day after Todd received my payment via Paypal (I don't know if he is always so quick though). Ken (25 years ago, 30-May-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ditto. I'm not stressing over it since it seems to make little difference to anything. As Larry P says, the sign-in password is the main thing. Kerry (25 years ago, 30-May-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) good point - guess web posting is easy to put a password on... nntp should be doable, though I've never played with it... as for email, guess the authorization email back to the sender method would work... Dan (25 years ago, 30-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) One problem with any kind of opt-in security or member-only security, is that it does not protect the *community*. While spoofing someone's id does damage to that one person, it also damages the entire community. And if anyone can be spoofed, (...) (25 years ago, 30-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Of course, once authenticated as anybody, you can post as anyone else with ease, neh? (25 years ago, 29-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) With only guessing at the way lugnet works internally, I can't say for sure. But here's one way things might work: A post is accepted, in some form - web, smtp or nntp. This post can then be processed, before actually being moved to the (...) (25 years ago, 29-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Neat - I still don't have any stuff either - nor was I really expecting anything when I first joined (but don't let that stop you from sending stuff Todd/Suz) But cool - FRIDGE MAGNETS!!! I hope they're the cheapo kind that can't actually hold (...) (25 years ago, 29-May-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well, from memory you get a fridge magnet, 2 or 4 (I can't remember which) stickers for minifigs, a bookmark or two, and a membership card [at least that's what I got when I joined.] Benjamin Whytcross [Lugnet member 407] (25 years ago, 29-May-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Suz / Todd, Whats in these things anyways? I just signed up, and paid - but have not got an email back yet (no hurry, just showing you how *fresh* I am, lol) but I keep seeing there is a membership card etc... but always the "etc" - never what (...) (25 years ago, 29-May-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) A point to note (to any reading, not just the thread participants), it used to be that in order to get your sign in password, you had to wait for the mail to arrive, as it was printed there, and Todd wasn't keen on sending it out by email. (...) (25 years ago, 29-May-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi, Todd and I intend to mail out another batch as soon as things settle down here (house is in physical transition). There's a pile of 250 or so almost ready. After that bunch, Todd would be the one to ask. I'm sorry for the long wait. -Suz (...) (25 years ago, 29-May-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.admin.general)
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Thanks Dave and Kerry for your replies. Dave i agree with you that Lugnet is fantastic value without an ID card i was just wondering if they still sent anything thats all otherwise i am very happyb with Lugnet i was not having a go at them. (...) (25 years ago, 29-May-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Check out these posts from Todd: (URL) (by January the latest mailed was #420) (URL) (details about packets) and I noticed that packets aren't mentioned on the info page anymore: (URL) not sure when this was changed. Of course, Todd and Suz (...) (25 years ago, 29-May-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Gnus handles NNTP servers that need password authentication just fine. At least for fairly new versions of Gnus. If you have GNU Emacs 20.x, you should be fine. You can also specify the username and password required in an rc file, so that you (...) (25 years ago, 28-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Every news reader I've used on a PC (Outlook Express, Netscape Communicator, and WinVN) has had the ability to authenticate. Frank (25 years ago, 28-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Are there any verification things that are part of the official NNTP protocol? If not, then anyone who uses a standard old newsreader could end up being out of luck. I use 'gnus' inside Gnu emacs, for example. I also have absolutely no idea (...) (25 years ago, 28-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Sounds like something that may very well be a standard option in list management/distrobution software, but may not be applicable, without additional coding, to the method Todd uses to take posts from email and zap them into the news server. (...) (25 years ago, 27-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Is the usual method easy to fake out, then? By "the usual method" I mean the system we used back when I was an undergraduate, where every post to an all-campus distribution list would cause an automated response to the originating e-mail, (...) (25 years ago, 27-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well, I'd say you could switch. And I'd rank the inconvenience to the (probably small number of) people who do post via email as much less significant than the increased security and authenticity the LUGNET community as a whole would gain. (...) (25 years ago, 27-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hey! What about those of us who use email to read and post? Makes it easier to keep a record of all your posts. It does look like it might be difficult to authenticate email posts, though. --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (25 years ago, 27-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Why not do this: Shut off posting by mail completely. Let people read, but not post. Require authentication via nntp same as web (this should be simple - in fact it should be a toggle to turn it on, then an option to pull the username & (...) (25 years ago, 27-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.admin.general, John Rudy writes:> (...) <this is the REAL 'SOC' Scott O. Chambers here...> I really do not mind him spoofing my name, I am glad he stopped using Jaco's - My name is not well known around here, so to me its not that big of a (...) (25 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:GDwut6.CuA@lugnet.com... (...) Also, paid members should be able to enter their confirmation code for their news post setup into something that will associate that posting email (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Authenticating posting means putting security against all the mechanisms used to post, nntp, mail, and web, no? It might take less time and effort to provide a way to web cancel posts if you authenticate that you are who you say you are. This (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) yikes... what I'd like to see is a setup that we can use pgp signed messages, to athunticate posts... but that would require a fair bit of coding, and it doesn't seem that Todd has much time now... :/ Dan (25 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Actually B is an incorrect observation. Matthew took Todd's name and posted in his name. Todd then cancelled the post through the server. -Shiri (25 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Thanks Richard...nice to know I'n not the only one out there who has pulled this particular 'Homer'...D'Oh! Actually, that's exactally what I did for the re-made version of that particular rant...typed it up in SimpleText (Mac) and copy/pasted it (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Whereas I like your suggestion (because I have done the same thing before), I have to think that Todd will "low-priority" this request -- there being such a lot of other stuff to attend to. For dumb***es like ourselves, I recommend a text (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I can see your handywork already Todd. Thanks. -Duane (25 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I've been lying low and keeping quite, in fear of ID theft and for sheer stupidity of this thread, but I must chime in. From what I've observed, Todd has been A) ignoring this to see if it will go away, or B) Posting and canceling, presumably (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Todd, Is there anything we can do about this clown? It's one thing to have a personality that nobody else seems to like, but trying to fake someone elses name in a NG is downright irritating to the extreme. TOSs him out again... -Duane (25 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) to (...) post a (...) something (...) How would that work with people who have a dialup-account and no fixed IP? What about users behind a firewall (multiple users with one IP)? The other way around: what if people post from different (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ok, I see this in the top part: Subject: Re: Security (was: Re: I'm back...) From: jmolen@globalxs.nl (Jaco van der Molen) Jaco van der Molen Reply-To: jmolen@globalxs.nl Newsgroups: lugnet.admin.general Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 09:08:03 GMT Now (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"blessing" <blessing@icefog.net> wrote in message news:GDvuD0.72r@lugnet.com... (...) AFAIK, yes he is. (...) Because this is an open forum, based on trust: no passwords are required to actually post something. Based on the info I'm required to (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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(...) I agree there's a point there, but there are also more polite and appropriate ways of going about making that point. Anyways, I cleaned it up a bit. Didn't fix the dates (yet) because that'll take a little bit more time. If anyone wants to do (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hence the futility of banning/repeat-cancelling Mr Moulton. I would never defend his past actions, but I see no point in continually bringing them up. Especially when he actually has some good stuff to show off, despite the rat-baggage. Who (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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all user created software but i', sure lego software could come too i was interested in a group for design software(lcad, mlcad), sorting and set/collection tracking, macintosh, win32,unix,palm platforms (...) (25 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Worked for me... might have been a temporary glitch. (or Todd might have fixed it already) James (25 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Got this error: "An internal server error occurred: Can't use string ("") as a subroutine ref while "strict refs" in use at (eval 1) line 293. " after clicking the model team link on the red-fury page. Have a screenshot if you like. Duq (25 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Do you mean for CAD-related stuff ("building" with Lego on your computer, or making software to that end), or for using LEGO-produced software? (URL) did you have something else in mind? HTH! James (25 years ago, 23-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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i would like to propose the addition of a lugnet.software news group. for uses of the computer and lego together. (25 years ago, 23-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Perfectly. Thanks! eric (25 years ago, 21-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I've done something similar: I once was in the middle of a (lengthy) message to .dear-lego and got tired of the small size of the screen, so I resized it. Of course, Netscape immediately reloaded the page, wiping out my message in the process (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd, I just spent about an hour, on and off, typing a deep, well thought out message to post via the Web interface. Lack of sleep and clumsy fingers made me close the window before posting the message to the intended groups. Stupid me. I was (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Howdy, at some point i changed my password (from the one assigned) and now i cannot sign in. also, i have never received my membership packet. my ID is 775, please help. \\//_ (25 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Okie dokie... I upped the allowable characters in the text box from 200 to 1000... Lemme know if it worked. (25 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I'm not sure why, but all of a sudden, at 2:54PM QLD time, on Wednesday, May 16, 2001, I couldn't access that page. Weird. And then, just as quickly the display error disappears again. Nice work getting that acronym up so fast, Shiri! Added: (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.technic)
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I noticed today that the LUGNET members database for Georgia still has the old state flag. Just wanted to let you know that the flag was changed at the begining of this year. You can see an image of the new flag at: (URL) won't get into the whole (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Here's an interesting problem... I would like to add a group to the skip-filter, but to do so would take me over the pre-defined character limit for the text box (I think that's what's happening... at least, I type, and the field stops accepting (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) No, as long as you're reasonably polite about it, I don't have any problem with you emailing people directly and asking if they could stop. You could also BCC me on the mail if you like. (...) If that's not something you feel comfortable (...) (25 years ago, 14-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.terms)
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I have a question for you and I believe that this is more appropriate than admin.terms but not completely sure about it. I've seen in the past week or so a couple of people posting auction notices in buy.sell.trade (one mentions ebay in the title, (...) (25 years ago, 14-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) A few days - not bad. ;-) Somewhat nitpicky I know, but the small image is very blurry, and the main pop-up doesn't work. SRC L#765 StRuCtures (25 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Signing in and selecting "until I sign out manually" was indeed the fix I needed (as I had deleted my cookies the day before). Thanx! SRC L#765 StRuCtures (25 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Well, then, I'm sorry to have stirred things up. Few things get my dander up faster than phone solicitors and email spam from private parties. (Not much can be done about spam-bots) I'm glad it was a mistake, and not an actual spam effort. ~Mark (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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All ~ First of all, the Lugnet CSOTW Spam came from me. Unfortunately, before this evening, I did not know what "spam" was or, for that matter, whose e-mail was in my address book. This was not a "massive spam", I only wanted to send the site (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd, my server won't let me send normal mail to you, so I'm sorry I have to ask this way. My system crashed and my settings are all messed up, and some data was lost. Right now I get prompted every time in lugnet replies if I have read the terms of (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I got one as well. I did have a transaction with the person a few months ago, though, so I'd guess they just emailed everyone in their address book... Jeff "You spoony bard!" (25 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well, I second the motion. ~Mark "still really grumpy about it" Sandlin (25 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) yah, I got the same exact mail, and also got it on one of the lego club mailing lists I read - with the exact same message id - massive spamming, imo... I think that site should be removed from the nomination. but that's just me :) (25 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I received this message in my email box this morning. (...) I have snipped the sender's email, to protect their privacy. Usually I just forgive the occasional random emails about LEGO that I occasionally receive from people I have bought from (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) 80 is the width of the "standard" screen, but messages should be wrapped somewhat before that. (25 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) If it was 80, and most screens were 80x24, as soon as the first quote happened it would wrap wrong. :) 72 has been the de-facto standard for as long as I can remember (i think? was it ever mentioned in an RFC?). (25 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Heh, guess my reader is set to 76! :) M$ default, I suspect. Build On! John Matthews John Matthews <jmatthew@columbus.rr.com> wrote in message news:GCu517.1Kv@lugnet.com... (...) ___...___ (...) 12345678901234567890...7890123456 (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I thought 80 was the number. That was the number when I started using the internet around 6 years ago. Has it been revised? Build On! John Matthews ___...___ ____ 12345678901234567890...7890123456 7890 Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I use Outlook Express. I just looked and noticed that it is set to wrap messages I send at 76. I don't know whether or not this is the default, but I don't remember changing it. Is 72 preferred? Bryan Beckwith "Fredrik Glöckner" (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) c /avoided/made less severe/ (people who quote many many levels deep will still have trouble, but this is very rare compared to the common 2-3 levels at most) But ya, I agree. Wrap at 72 if possible. (25 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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