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(...) I have also had this problem. I have not yet been able to identify any kind of pattern as to when I will get the authentication message and when I will not. -Joel (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It could be my fault this time. I broke the rules and caused an entire subthread to be censored. The odd thing is, although I was unaware of some of the nuances, I did it on purpose. And yet, I'm still here. Why is it that someone like Richard (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Occasionally I post a message which never shows in my inbox for authentication? Am I alone? Scott A (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) OK once I get hold of something, sometimes I worry it to pieces. While reading about a Mecha based combat game (1) (a link found from an orkut profile) I ran across another entry in this fellows blog pointing to a 419 story that's "out of this (...) (20 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) It does.. Thanks Clark! (your fount of amazingly obscure facts never ceases to amaze...) (20 years ago, 16-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) 419 refers to the Nigerian Penal Code section for this kind of crime. The letters/emails are still getting responses decades after the scam was created. The U.S. Secret Service has a special webpage for information: (URL) there is a wider (...) (20 years ago, 16-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) o-tay, I'm sowweee. e (20 years ago, 13-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Eric, I do realise that this is a "joke" but I would disagree with your assessment that it's an "old lugnet joke". I've been on lugnet for years and as far as I can see this redirection has been instigated only by you (although there have been (...) (20 years ago, 13-May-04, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.admin.general) !
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(...) Feel free to email me with links to pictures, and I'll let you know what I think. I'm kicking this post back to admin.general, and I'd like to address posting etiquette. I can't be certain, but from reading your two recent replies in this (...) (20 years ago, 13-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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Its an old Lugnet joke. e (20 years ago, 13-May-04, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I agree with Diedre here. Eric - while the duplo joke is funny to you and your friends, and while it can be used as a cute joke once in a while among the same, please reconsider FUT'ing Duplo and using this joke when expressing sincere (...) (20 years ago, 13-May-04, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) What are 419s? "Nigerian Lockbox" is how I've always known that scam and its variants. This is not the first time this has happened. (you need to get out more, I guess...) It's due to the gateway with an external mailing list, which does not (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Please don't redirect irrelevant threads to .duplo. I don't think this is an appropriate way to handle behaviour that you presumably consider childish. I've cross-posted this to admin.general as this has happened before eg (URL) Would you please (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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Todd- Someone's been posting 419s via email in the .robotics newsgroup. I don't know why, or how, except that I know its subscription works differently than the rest of LUGNET. But I thought I'd flag it for you. Anyways, that's a first for me, 419 (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.lego, Marc Nelson, Jr. wrote: [Much snippage] (...) Discuss colors, great. It's the force and vitriol with which it's being done, in my view. I keep up with many AFOLs across the whole community on a daily basis, and I think 95% told me (...) (20 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) Posting a FUT to this older suggestion partly because it's still a good idea and partly to see if so doing will get Rob to stop threadjacking every new group suggestion or announcement to point out what a good idea it is... :-) For starters (...) (20 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) We might have an update to post later this week -- depends how it goes this week. There may be some upcoming expansion of curator roles, also depending on how things go this week. --Todd (20 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I'd just like to know if there is an update on the re-structuring of Lugnet? And also to give a vow of thanks to Todd and everyone else out there working hard for the betterment of us all. -Lenny (20 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Membership application apology
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Thanks Todd. Better late than never. Arjan. (20 years ago, 9-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Membership application apology
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I've been remiss in my duties lately in processing membership applications, and for that I humbly apologize to all who have been stuck waiting, especially those who wrote to complain and received no personal reply. I believe everyone who has paid (...) (20 years ago, 9-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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