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Re: Posts expiring?
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Tue, 9 Jun 2026 15:58:38 GMT
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On 6/9/26 10:02 AM, Gereon "Jerry" Stein wrote:

Thanks for noticing, I would have no means of knowing (even after all these
years).

Regards,
Jerry

It's a pretty funny coincidence, actually.

I'd been going over old archives of RTL(1) and then more recently
LUGNET(2) as it came into being in 1998. At the same time, I happened to
be chatting with Todd about something completely unrelated, when all of
a sudden I switched to my LN feed and noticed the missing articles. So I
pointed it out in the chat, but also figured I should post here--for
what turns out to be the very first time. :-)

So thanks again for the fix, and for keeping this community going. It's
still making connections across the decades--and isn't that the whole
point of LEGO?
__

(1) via Google/DejaNews--oh, how I wish we could get this archive in
source format; there's so much info missing from message headers and so
forth.

(2) via nntp in Thunderbird--much more pleasant reading interface!

--
N. W. Perry
a/k/a "Plastikean"



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(...) Aw, man, I hear that. If only we'd kept a fork of RTL on here as an archive -- then it would still all be accessible. I think that was actually suggested or considered at one point, but the problem was huge volumes of spam, which was one of (...) (2 weeks ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) Interesting that there should be _missing_ posts after all these years. I had encountered a major hang in the internals of the news system the other day and resolved the same - for reasons entirely mystic to me that must have triggered (...) (2 weeks ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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