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  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) I'm thinking that makes sense. Doing it this way, the definition of what gets cut from the main system is "not lego-related". .admin is meta, and OT is out by definition of OT. OTOH, I think it would be defensible (from a practical POV) to (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) Oh, I dunno, I can see .off-topic.pun getting pretty annoying, and .off-topic.test being altogether worthless...? --Todd (24 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) OK, you got me there. Although it was fun to test-post those part-references, and start a test-thread of excitement. But .off-topic.clone-brands is at least tangentially lego-related (although not LEGO-related), and off-topic.fun tends to add (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) I dunno if you wanna see everything, or skip over some stuff, but here's what you could use to accomplish the above... -.off-topic +.off-topic.clone-brands +.off-topic.fun +.off-topic.geek or simply -.off-topic.debate -.off-topic.pun --Todd (...) (24 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) Hmm. Didn't take. Guess it's a member-only thing. I should go fill out that monster form. Someday. Steve (24 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) ?? Worked for me, and I'm not logged in, so it doesn't know I'm a member. James (URL) getting paid for this --> alladvantage.com Sign up via me, the reference $$ go to fund Lugnet. (24 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) Hmm, no, it's not a member-only thing. All it does is sets a cookie. Perchance have you disabled cookies in your browser? --Todd (24 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) When I try to put through a filter of: +lugnet nothing takes -- the updated filter page shows that my current settings are the default settings: -.off-topic -.admin But when I put in: -.xxx +lugnet the filter is set correctly. Is there (...) (24 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) Hmm, thanks for the data. I can only think of one thing that's consistent with that data. I have a hypothesis: Your web browser has a bug, and it is tossing (ignoring) empty-string cookies rather than storing and reporting back the empty (...) (24 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) Yep, I'm using MSIE5. (...) Now the page seems to work correctly. I put in "+lugnet" for the filter, and it came back saying my current filter is "<I>(none)</I>". Steve (24 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) Excellent! --Todd (24 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) Just came across this article in my bookmarks. Everything work out OK with the filter? (It's not a member-only thing.) (...) Some people leave it 90% blank and come back to it later after they're all signed up. When you sign in, there's a (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote: [snipped quote from old message about a bug in the web interface's message-filter] (...) Yep, we got it worked out. (...) Ah. OK. Still need to sign up. Steve (24 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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