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Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!
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lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:43:39 GMT
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On Mon, 4 Oct 1999 00:54:52 GMT, "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:

This being the eve of the anniversary, I'd be interested in hearing
people's thoughts on how things have turned out so far, and whether things
have lived up to or failed to meet people's expectations -- particularly
with respect to the hopes expressed in the announcement (attached below).

Happy Anniversary!

LUGNET is a wonderful community.  I had reservations at first, because
LUGNET news (so to speak) would be a drain on RTL.  That is what has
happened, and I miss the RTL'ers who haven't come over to LUGNET.

OTOH, some neat and wonderful things are happening that never would
occurred without LUGNET.  Such as Datsville, and the .robotics subgroups,
and the local groups which are just starting to appear.

And the web interface is *so* incredible.  I haven't seen any other
web-based threaded-discussion interface that can hold a candle to LUGNET
for power, ease-of-use and speed.  Even without the non-news additions,
LUGNET is great!

Steve



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  Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!
 
(...) Yeah, I was wondering about that myself. Gimme a little bit, and I'll post some statistics. (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!
 
(...) Aha -- found it! Here's that message: (URL) 'Date' header says "4 Oct 1998 00:00:00 GMT", which is obviously wrong, but there's another header which says "04 Oct 1998 17:13:50 CDT", which sounds right on. So if my TZ math is correct, this (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)

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