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(...) is who he says he is. However, there's a development cost to setting this up (trust me, I tried working on a script to do just that!), and PGP will not be a good solution for all (most?) users - users who like posting from multiple machines, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) PGP keys are unrelated to nntp - and they could be used to verify that a user is who he says he is. However, there's a development cost to setting this up (trust me, I tried working on a script to do just that!), and PGP will not be a good (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) true that that's only for the web interface. However, I don't know the distribution of users between web/nntp/smtp. Do you have any data? (...) Authenticated posting only makes sure you're allowde to access the server - it does not (without (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Really? I had kind of assumed that the web interface was the primary interface used... Although my guess is that that's changed since LUGNET's inception when it was most likely primarily NNTP... I dunno... (...) I think the point was mentioned (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That's only if you are using the WEB interface. I think most of us use the NNTP or Email interface. My NEWS reader supports Authenticated posting, can we use that to prove who we are and not have to verify each post? We are loosing a lot of (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Firstly, let me move this to where it belongs... lugnet.admin.general Secondly, if you are a member of LUGNET, you can sign in and you do not have to wait to verify posts. Jude FUT .admin.general (25 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That's what the lugnet.off-topic.test and lugnet.off-topic.test.foo are for :) post a message to one, with a followup set for the other :) HTH, Dan (25 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Thank you Selcuk. Think there would be a problem with me testing it first? -- Nicole widow of Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. "Selçuk Göre" <ssgore@superonline.com> wrote in message news:3B7384AA.22C97C...ine.com... (...) group', (...) 0x800CCCA9 (...) (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Nicole, In Outlook Express message window (where you type your new message or reply to a message) click on the menu "View", then click on "All headers". Then you will see a new address line entry, which labeled as "Followup-To". I hope this would (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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It just gives me a list of groups to post to. -- Nicole widow of Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. "LUGNET Admin" <suz@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:GHtrGt.GA0@lugnet.com... (...) addressed to (...) few (...) would say (...) area. (...) (25 years ago, 9-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) If you would like to post an announcement, your message needs to be addressed to lugnet.announce with instructions to reply to, or 'follow up,' at another newsgroup, such as lugnet.build. This is so the announce area contains only (...) (25 years ago, 9-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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when posting we get this: Outlook Express could not post your message. Subject 'New website', Account: 'lugnet.com', Server: 'lugnet.com', Protocol: NNTP, Server Response: '441 Posts to lugnet.announce must follow-up to another group', Port: 119, (...) (25 years ago, 9-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It's this latter example (like Frank's) that I had in mind. Someone at LUGNET would only need make the initial contact, and the rest is up to the person's "supervisor". Since I would assume cases like this to be exceptionally rare, I would (...) (25 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I never was fond of JAL i the first place. People try to be nice to him but he just twists there words against them and tries to make them look like the jerk and glorify himself. His constant ramblings about all of his great MOCs are very (...) (25 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd, I recently acquired one of the Compaq iPAQ Pocket PCs, and am experiencing difficulty in caching successfully the main Lugnet and News sites. Your site appears in my Mobile Favorites, unfortunately it is grayed out and clicking the link only (...) (25 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) As I mentioned to Shiri, I hadn't thought at all of a case like this where medication could help "control" the behaviour. I was thinking of cases where there is no such possible aid. But in spite of that, I think your example fits exactly what (...) (25 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Understood. I don't feel comfortable with it either. (...) Yeah, I know what you mean..., I can't seem to wordify it either. There is a difference. I guess I could have better described 2 ("the kid") as someone who (may or) may not be doing (...) (25 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Chicken 8?P (Like I'm not doing the same thing? I'll try to form one now, here...) (...) I know...I was just making extreme, general (and well known) cases... Think about this...my 2 year old daughter can PLAY with the computer, but she'll (...) (25 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I've been thinking about this. My jury is still out on this one..., in other words I'm wimping out on forming an opinion ;] In general I believe everybody should get the same treatment. However sometimes, specifically if it will help the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) You bring up a very interesting question. Online situations unfortunately have an serious handicap in human relations in that you don't get any visual or verbal clues. In another online forum, which is an adjunct to a face-to-face forum, I am (...) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I'll reply to this, but really without considering Jesse at *all*. I agree that this should be an issue, on some level... (...) You could say so, yes... (...) Right. I think one of the three applies to every single case I can think of (which aren't (...) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Kyle D. Jackson writes: <snipped for brevity, not for quality> (...) <more snippage, but still good stuff...go read it> (...) Kyle, You bring up some good, thought-provoking points here. I can tell you really have been (...) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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G'day folks, Note 1: I decided to compose this post because of the events of late concerning Jesse Alan Long. If you don't want to read something that will make your head hurt, skip this ;] Note 2: I am not arguing with any actions that have been or (...) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Glad to hear you'll still be around. Sorry if "transfer of responsibilities" was inaccurate, my misinterpretation of Suz's post. (...) Notice that my "regret is that we have yet to meet". There'll be a time and a place, even if I have to come (...) (25 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Grrr... talk about mixed metaphors... I think I was making some sort of mix between self-confident and, umm, conceited? <sheepish grin> (Wait, let me check I got *that* word right... yep) Beats me. I don't know *what* I was thinking... going (...) (25 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) <Snipped Banned Topic> (...) I would not like to see JAL's privileges permanently revoked. His language does not seem to be a repetitive problem as with other people who regularly post. I have to admit that what was posted did violate the TOS (...) (25 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hi, I think that people were using the term "ban" because it was in the thread title that I started. I wasn't sure what word to use in place of "privileges revocation" so I guess the term stuck. You are right, of course, and the term is very (...) (25 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) JAL was not "banned" (that's a very loaded word) and as far as I'm aware, neither Suzanne nor I ever used the word "ban" or "banned" to him. What happened earlier is that the server has been instructed to reject messages sent with his known (...) (25 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I have to say I agree with Eric on this one but beyond agreeing I will give my 2 cents. First of all I will admit some ignorance in terms of JAL's history because I stopped reading .space because of all the bickering. I will just say this, it (...) (25 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think that was Eric's point, at least sort of. Lots of people slip up (Eric, please correct me if I misrepresented you but that's what I thought you were implying). People ought to be told that they slipped up and given a chance to correct (...) (25 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Just a small FYI: (...) (URL)But given your talk above about it being "ethically lax" of you to "let it (...) Well, I don't. Witness what Stephen mentioned about his daughter. ((URL) I was outraged to hear this. I know 7 year olds who throw that (...) (25 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well, it won't be seamless -- there are a lot of coding and legal issues to be worked out -- but I don't expect anything to break. It's not really a "transfer of responsibilities" either, but offloading much of my workload. I'll still be here, (...) (25 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well, I was hoping someone wouldn't waste their time building just that list. Seriously, where does it get us? You missed my instances of a certain 3-letter word...are you sure you don't want to make a LUGNET page listing all of the violations (...) (25 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) He broke the Terms of Use Agreement. (URL) S. Lehman | LUGNET Admin <todd@lugnet.com> (25 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) If I had never responded to a post with a "mee too", now would be the time to start. Well-said, Ed. And a huge bucket o' thanks to both Todd and Suz. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) by (...) ending (...) expect (...) will (...) I don't think enough could be said in praise of the efforts of Todd and Suz. LUGNET has been a huge success since its inception. They have run LUGNET with a professionalism that would be the dream (...) (25 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) As it turns out, I've just received word that JAL *has* been banned. You can consider me to be "voluntarily banning" myself as well until this is changed, although I would consider it to be more of a "this is ridiculous and I'll have no part (...) (25 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) <snip list, including me> OK. (...) OK. I was completely unaware that the term I habitually use was considered offensive. Now that I've been made aware, I'm voluntarily banning myself. James (25 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) No, there isn't. Both have exactly the same effect- obsceneties in a Lugnet post, violating the ToS. Like I said, I understand that (and understand why) Jessie is unpopular, but banning him from Lugnet for something that other people have done (...) (25 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Just a note here - Frequently, mild obscenity is let slide by because whenever someone calls the abuser on it, it pretty much invariably turns into a huge fight. Slippery slope? Yup. Ethically lax of me (and others) to let it slide? You (...) (25 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Many people have violated this particular ToS and not been banned. In the past, folks who have posted obscenities (and been called on it, frequently they aren't) have simply been made to understand that NO posting of profanities is allowed, (...) (25 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I don't think banning (forever) someone would be appropriate, for using a bad word in his post, not to insult someone, but just as an example, and also apologizing for this afterwards. If I remember correctly, the practice was warning and (...) (25 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) hi, To be honest, if there is anyone else who used this language, I would be all for banning them. Especially if when they were approached on the issue they tried to dodge responsibility for it and then blamed someone else, and then stated (...) (25 years ago, 5-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Tanya K. Burkhart writes: <snipped all of a well said (and timely, inasmuch as it NEEDED to be said) post that I agree with, except for one line> (...) Almost no one... those members logged in to the web interface don't get (...) (25 years ago, 5-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Note: This is a fire-it-and-forget-it post. I will state my opinions here, right, wrong, left, upside-down, backwards, or otherwise, and likely not respond to any replies. I would like to bring up several points that several people in our community (...) (25 years ago, 5-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Jesse Alan Long" <joyous4god2@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:GHM5oE.KCH@lugnet.com... <snip> (...) areas of (...) even so, (...) be some (...) to this (...) This has nothing to do with the laws of Mass. or Tenn. LUGNET is a privately owned (...) (25 years ago, 5-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Well, if we're going to start banning people from Lugnet for cussing, I'll be more than happy to do a little research and pull up all the delinquents that I can find, and it won't be overly difficult to find a couple. However, I think that banning (...) (25 years ago, 5-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) What can I do to say I am sorry if I have violated three different areas of your rules? I did not mean to violate the rule about profanity but even so, rules have been broken by other people and I believe that there may be some bias on Lugnet (...) (25 years ago, 5-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) this is the type of twisting of words that is common from JAL. This is exactly why diplomacy does not work. We have tried being nice, and he isn't stopping. (...) JAL has only argued more when we practically begged him to share his MOCs with (...) (25 years ago, 5-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.terms, lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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(...) I guess I simply picked the wrong place to say the message, whether setting an example or not but you sent the profanity as well and you should have known better as well. I also used the profanity that I used as an illustration that I do not (...) (25 years ago, 5-Aug-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.terms)
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I've never said this before, but LUGNET has been great to me, thankyou so much Todd and Suz for all of the amazing work you do on this site, and good luck with all of your future endeavours. -Geordan- (...) (25 years ago, 5-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I thought my posts on this situation were over... After cooling down a bit, responding to some email, and re-reading my correspondence with Jessie which he has chosen to make an example of me with, I'll offer these words. It is Jessie, not I, not (...) (25 years ago, 5-Aug-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.terms)
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Todd & Suz, You guys have done an excellent job. :^) Good luck to both of you!!! Jorge F. NELUG (25 years ago, 5-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hello, I have been reading a lot of the posts from Jesse Alan Long, and paying attention to the arguments going on there since they started. I have posted very rarely in response to him, mainly because I feel it has gone on far too long, as most (...) (25 years ago, 5-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) G'day Suzanne, Well in some ways this is sad news. But I'm not entirely surprised. I've been amazed that not just one but two people out there have maintained such admirable focus on this endeavour. While I've never met either of you in (...) (25 years ago, 5-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Suz - Could you please add a new group for the Northern Illinois LEGO Train Club? lugnet.trains.org.niltc Thanks! -Tim (25 years ago, 5-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Gosh, when I think how far things have come since the old ftp archive on earthsea.stanford.edu, I can't help but be overwhelmed by how much is possible nowadays. So many sites have come and gone; LUGNET has endured, and for that we owe you guys (...) (25 years ago, 5-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Thanks and best of luck to both of you. :-) -L (25 years ago, 5-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Excellent, Best of luck to you both! RW LUGNET Admin <suz@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:GHJHpC.n24@lugnet.com... (...) a (...) happened (...) world (...) some (...) amazed by (...) LUGs (...) while (...) stands (...) are (...) and (...) new (...) (25 years ago, 4-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Does that mean that we'll all get our membership packets now? David "Fuzzy" Gregory (25 years ago, 4-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.announce, Suzanne D. Rich writes: <some bad news, some good news> To Todd: I know I haven't been around long, but thank you for helping create LUGNET, and running it so capabley all this time. Even if you didn't get to hear it often (...) (25 years ago, 4-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Good luck to both of you. Todd, I hope you'll still stay connected with the community, and Suz, I'm sure you'll do a great job! Keep it up, -Shiri (25 years ago, 4-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Suzanne & Todd, Well, I am sure this will be first in the long list of praise, but I just want to thank both of you for your hard work and dedication to make LUGNET what it is today. I would have never thought there would ever be resources for (...) (25 years ago, 4-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Congratulations to you both and good luck in all future endeavors. -Dave Johann Lego Users Group Of Los Angeles (25 years ago, 4-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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We've all come a long way since the early days of RTL. Progress has been nothing short of amazing. Change is good. Best wishes to Todd in his new endevours and good look to you in yours. as evah, John C. (...) [...] (...) [...] (...) (25 years ago, 4-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Well, good luck!! (25 years ago, 4-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yah, we could do that. Not sure we actually need a newsgroup just for that though. A db.inv.discussion would probably be good... Also, I was thinking of just setting up a mailing list, that will allowe people to subscribe to peeron updates... (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I've been finding your site more and more useful and would like to see updates here somehwere. Weekly would be good when significant updates come that often. Maybe .announce would be the place for your site announcements. Perhaps you could (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.admin.general)
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Is there any possibility of getting a discussion group for lugnet.db.inv? It seems like we have enough non-data posts in lugnet.db.inv to warrant at least thinking about it. And almost every one of them starts out with "I know this isn't a (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Rick, I shut you off when you started a wildly off-topic flamewar there, having nothing to do with LEGO or the group's charter. (2 URLs) disabled the block after things cooled down (and I see you've posted since then). (25 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Now how could I have forgotten Marc's amazing blackhawk?(URL) (25 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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(...) The web stuff is all from-the-ground-up, yes. The news stuff stems from an open-source package called CNews. (...) Recommendations: * Use Perl5 or PHP4 for web stuff. * Consider CNews as well as INN for NNTP stuff. * Take an in-depth look at (...) (25 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Try WebX: (URL) believe the installation is free (no support) up to a certain traffic rate. IIRC, it was easy to setup and run but required a separate mail server. Newsgroups can be configured to be accessable via HTTP or NNTP. -Rob Doucette. (25 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) crossposted and FUT admin.general You might try sending Todd and/or Suzanne a note directly, or just posting to admin.general (hence my crosspost). I think IndyLUG is also at the point where there was talk of getting a newsgroup although I (...) (25 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.org, lugnet.admin.general)
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Although I know I'm replying to a rather old thread, this topic is exactly what I was going to post about. I'm trying to set up a disscussion server (for teachers) and was looking for a quality program to use. I've checked out the slashdot solution (...) (25 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) So the proper subgroup, were one to be created, would then be lugnet.town.paradisa? (25 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) MindFest was an event hosted by MIT's Media Lab in 1999. It was a project of Mitchel Resnick's research group, called 'Lifelong Kindergarten,' and it supports the learning theory of constructionism, begun by Seymour Papert (also of MIT). The (...) (25 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"LUGNET Admin" <todd@lugnet.com> wrote in news:GHCzDn.9D1@lugnet.com: what is/was MindFest? (...) (25 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) .Mecha and .Arch aren't supported by Lego either, but Mecha is well over 3000 posts now and .arch is is a pretty popular group as well. Besides, there are at least two custom military kit sites up now, soon to be three in a few weeks... And (...) (25 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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(...) I applied a sledgehammer-level fix on Friday and applied a real fix today which was kindly contributed and unit-tested by Dan Boger. (...) This was a bug in some of the server code...not any user's fault. -- Todd S. Lehman | LUGNET Admin (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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[replying to a message from June of 2000...] (...) It's funny (I mean cool!) how MindFest was so international (so many people from Europe, for example) even though it was hosted in the U.S. I think this question is worth revisiting in light of the (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Probably because there probably aren't many Paradisa fans out there as a percentage relative to the whole of Town fans... hmm... Would you use it? It's easy enough to set up a lugnet.town.paradisa group. The Castle folks have a (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) You posted a few hours ago and said you were going to be really busy in the next while and this is the post you choose to reply to?!? What is next? Are you going to begin another season of FUTs? <g,d,r> Jude FUT .o-t.fun (25 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yep - in fan terms, Paradisa is not a "theme" but rather a "subtheme" of town. TLC uses different names for themes and subthemes (I think it's "lines" and something else, I can't recall ATM.) -Shiri (25 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Not a bad idea... Even though the theme isn't officially supported by LEGO, there still is a lot of MOC's that might make this work. (25 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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Not that I'm a fan of this series (which I'm not), but I was curious why there wasn't a Paradisa newsgroup here on Lugnet? Is there a logical reason behind this? Just wondering.... Thanks, Steve (25 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Shaun Sullivan writes: oops, forgot a couple non-LEGO sites also: Achtung Panzer! - WWII German Vehicles: (URL) planes, planes, and planes (URL) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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(...) Goose's Military LEGO (some really nice stuff can be found in the "My Work/LEGO" section): www.goosesmilitaryle...estead.com Justin's Military LEGO (I was having trouble with this site ...): www.justinslegomilit...estead.com Kevin Zwicker has (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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(...) Okay, lesse what we got...If any links don't belong here, or you want to suggest some more feel free to reply and change anything. Mechanized Brick-more.(URL) Sullivan's stuff-(URL) Greatrix's stuff-(URL) F. Braun's battleship-(URL) Jantzi's (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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I'd definitely like to see a build.military group. Chris Churchill (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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(...) No not yet, but I'd be happy to do one up. Quick Q, do we have to ask permission to put up links on the main page to sites like Brickmania or Mechanized Brick? them being business's and all. Hey Todd, are you getin' all o' this? hint, hint (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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(URL) we have some amazing non-official models to talk about! -Geordan- (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I like this idea, but there are no military sets or weapons in the Lego universe {wink, wink} to talk about! Well, I guess there are some pirate guns, castle guns, wild west guns, bow and arrows, crossbows, starships with lasers/phasers, (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I like it. ANyone have a list of military-themed links to start the group off with? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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(...) Amen! Anyone else with thoughts or ideas? I think I'd be game to be curator for the group although I don't know entirely what the job would require. I think a military group would be very fitting for this forum. C'ya -Geordan- -Geordan- (25 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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(...) I like the idea as well ... I'm always a little hesitant in posting my latest WWII MOC to .build, wondering if many people there are really interested in it or not. There probably is a fair bit of interest out there, though, to judge by the (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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Hey hey, what did people think of this idea? Or am I the only person who digs military lego/stuff etc. Any thoughts? C'ya -Geordan- (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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(...) I'd like to echo the above sentiments. Most of us are unlikely to find MISB sets from 1980, but it would still be nice to have an inventory. . .and know that the inventory was not as reliable as one from an MISB set. (For example, I bought a (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) We're aware of the problem and are looking into it. (...) The server is not shared. -Suz (25 years ago, 27-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I just had it too. (...) Does it mean LUGNET is being used too much, or does it share a server with other sites? Scott A (25 years ago, 27-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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