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| | | (...) I may have screwed up badly on the name on this group -- and not fully understood how people might perceive it. It seems that no matter how it's described in its charter, people somehow still infer that it's for posting quotes. But it's NOT a (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.qotd)
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| | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) Make this one moderated. You need to explore the mechanics of a moderated group anyway. Do it here where it's relatively less likely to be controversial. Get someone to moderate it for you. Seems to me that unless someone else thinks that it (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | I was serious about this. Make it moderated. I'm disappointed that not one person even said "what a lame idea"... :-) (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Tom McDonald
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| | | | | | | (...) It might have something to do with the fact that you're not wrong (this time ;) Yet after reading Todd's admonitions, I decided to see if I could come up with a legal .QOTD from recent lugnet posts. Nothing struck me. Funny things are (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | (...) I thought the lameness of the idea was self-evident. :) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) Really? Why? Do tell. Seems a natural for a moderated group. And we need to experiment with them here anyway. Heck, I volunteer to moderate it (for 6 months, no more). (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | (...) Hey Lar, You -do- know what's involved in moderating, right? You get mailed an NNTP article via SMTP, which you then import into an editor, munge the headers, add an 'Approved-By' header, and then repost via NNTP. There are tools to help with (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | (...) Yes. Long term you will probably provide an interface for members to do this easily. Till then, no problem. I'll have my lar@voyager.net account receive these. Munging the headers should not be a problem from there. It would be hard to do (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | (...) There's another icky sticky problem with moderated groups. When you post to one, your message disappears into the wild blue yonder. You don't find out whether your post made it there or not until you either see it minutes/ hours/days later or (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Ed Jones
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| | | | | | | | (...) I agree. Considering that this is supposed to be fun, I think too many people are making this way to cerebral!!! Its beginning to look a whole lot like the dreaded LEGO/LEGOS threads. (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | Kill QOTD, I don't care, it's the easiest solution. It's not a high value add group anyway. But I do think we need to explore the mechanics and technology of moderation as a community experiment. Moderation (or review of information) will appear (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | (...) Hey, you said you were disappointed, so I tried to say what you wanted to hear. Didn't actually think about it. (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) OK, OK, I'm over analysing (1) here, but... What I meant was that my append seemed to have sunk without a trace. I of COURSE always expect that everyone immediately applauds my ideas as brilliant, terrifically on topic, and well timed(2)(3), (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | (...) For a "Best of LUGNET" type of event? (...) But this is the general usage of said white boards, at least in my experience. Typically, someone would write a thoughtful / silly / angst-ridden / etc. message from an *outside* source, in order to (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —James Brown
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| | | | | (...) I think it is a naming thing. When I first see "QOTD" it interprets as "somewhere to put cool quotes I heard" without any accompanying "on LUGnet or RTL" being intuited by my brain. I think that what you may want to do, even though it goes (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) That's what I was afraid of last week, but I didn't listen to my gut. Shame on me. Thanks for spelling this out. (...) Ahhh. The tense feeling that I've had in my stomach all day has just subsided. Your general approach sounds like an (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Ed Jones
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| | | | | | | (...) well, not being a whiteboard user, it doesn't mean anything initially, but once I checked it out, I would easily determine what it was. But my preference would be simply - lugnet.off-topic.quotes - for everything that has been posted so far. (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | | | | (...) (!) It has the ring of truth; that is to say, it rings true. I need say no more. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Tom McDonald
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| | | | | | | (...) fun. Sorry to have infected it. Better kill it before it multiplies. (...) or (...) <snip> (...) duh. I guess I should have posted my messages about "Duel of the Fates" from the Star Wars soundtrack to .off-topic.fun instead. Todd, I guess (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Not stupid. I was thinking about this for the FAQ as well -- the ng charters are short enough that they would easily fit into the FAQ. Making them available on the Web interface might facilitate them becoming more available to the FAQ as well. (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Charters —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | (...) Like this--? (URL) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Charters —Tom McDonald
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| | | | | | | | (...) I?) that when you had us look at that "mystery" page that that's what you were doing. One very small criticism of that style of page would be that I would rather see a longer list of posts, which might be handy for busier groups. I've grown (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Charters —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | (...) Well, the longer listing won't be going away with this new layout -- this is just the 'homepage' for the group and it gives a short intro, and you'll still be able to get to the full (compact) listings from there. Notice at the bottom also (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Charters —Tom McDonald
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| | | | | | | | (...) grown (...) <snipped cool ideas> (...) Bottom of the page sounds good, but IMO anywhere on the page would be awesome. (...) Maybe I'm dense but where would these links be? -Tom McD. when replying, (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Charters —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | (...) Have a lookie here -- (URL) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Sarah Heacock
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| | | | | | (...) Since I can not find this group in my refresh today, you must have done this? (...) Business meetings. Notes for meetings. Brainstorming ideas. Sarah Heacock sarah@eskimo.com (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | (...) Well, I keep thinking of all the QOTD utilities that I've run under DOS, Windows, Linux, etc that basically generate quotes of the type people seem to want to post to this group. Many of them even used qotd as the executable name, so I think (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —John Neal
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| | | | | | | (...) Baseplates and Bellville figs! I'm in complete agreement with Mike! Go figure...:-) -John (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Kind of like the 'fortune' program then? (...) Aha. OK. Uh oh. :-} (...) I probably would too (if they were semi-original), but there are already *so* many places out on the net that collect and disseminate quotes. For example, LEGO-fan Matt (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Frank Filz
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| | | | | Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) I thought you were pretty clear...oh well, and I think your idea is a good one (though I would perhaps expand it to allow people to pull interesting quotes from RTL and Lego fan web pages, at least if such (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group —Richard Dee
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| | | | On Tue, 4 May 1999 20:52:26 GMT, Todd Lehman uttered the following profundities... (...) lugnet.off-topic.q.h.w.l. ----.cool Anyone else see it that way? Cool quotes? (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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