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(...) Looks great but I really miss seeing an easy link to "traffic". This is what I first click on every time I visit LUGNET. (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) But it's an issue which comes up (naturally) from time to time -- and came up in RTL several times -- and it *IS* related to LEGO. Anything related to LEGO has a place here. On the one hand, I agree that it doesn't have a terribly big place in (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Always good advice! Yes! (...) IMO, no debate here deserves to die so long as people are still being calm and principled and the debate is taking place in the most appropriate group (often .off-topic.debate). The .off-topic.debate are is _for_ (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It's often used in place of 'aggression' or 'aggressive'. Seems to fit this discussion... -Adam 8^D (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Heh. Meeee toooo. (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) What is "agro"? (...) FWIW, I haven't noticed any recent changes -- other than the usual flare-ups of debates that happen from time to time. Sometimes they seem like changes because they take things by storm, but they've been here since day 1 (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) am (...) It is very distructive, and I found that I was thinking about it all the time, and I decided to drop it. It is a healthy move, IMO. I rather discuss LEGO items more than anything. (...) but (...) won't (...) age (...) its (...) Yes, (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Scott E. Sanburn" <ssanburn@cleanweb.net> wrote in message news:010e01c006fd$12...8d0@SES... (...) civil (...) isn't (...) a (...) Yeah. I did that about a year and a half ago and it made a difference. Though o-t.debate is somehwat necessary, I (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Help me out here- I've been seeing a lot of people talking about an "increased level of tension" on Lugnet lately, but I guess I don't see it. I know there were two very controversial threads in the past week/week-and-a-half... namely, the (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) in (...) for (...) I have found that since I have stopped going into off.topic.debate, I am a lot calmer, and seem to relax a lot more. : ) I think healthy discussion is fine, especially since the brick is a good chunk of life, but I try to (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Matthew Miller" <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrn8pj4h5.nhe.....bu.edu... (...) to (...) Understood, its ok. (...) nicer (...) I'd agree with you wholeheartedly. I just think that this might be good for improved communication. But yes, (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm sorry; I didn't mean to give you a case in point. However, I do disagree with you. Rather than saying that we should be nicer to younger people, I think it'd be better for everyone to be more civil in general. People *do* have the ability (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Kevin Wilson" <kwilson_tccs@compuserve.com> wrote in message news:39997771.9E15C9...rve.com... (...) Unfortunately, I think you got lost in the 'Its really late and my brain is fried' void. ;) Sorry bout that! -- Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Matthew Miller" <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrn8piho1.f4u.....bu.edu... (...) has (...) You should make the attempt to understand what I'm saying, versus trying to pick an argument. I said _general_ - obviously meaning that we're not (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Rick Kujawa" <spacerocks@iname.com> wrote in message news:FzCEw0.K70@lugnet.com... (...) posting (...) menus? I (...) IMHO I don't think a pulldown/selection field is a good option. There are too many newsgroups to make a selection box more (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Whatever happened to us poor 35-45 year olds? Kevin ---...--- Personal Lego Web page: (URL) Air Market: Limited edition kit (URL) Kits & Custom Lego models: (URL) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi Todd, With the proliferation of newsgroups on Lugnet; as a means to simplify posting messages to the proper newsgroup(s), would it be possible to make both the Newsgroups and Followup-To fields on the message window be pull down menus? I can (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Looks very nice! mark (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) setup page on either www.lugnet.com or news.lugnet.com. Either location would be fine, imo. You could also put a posting setup icon where the traffic, new post, and sign-in icons are located... --Bram (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Other than RTL, all the other newsgroups I read are work related, but they are all fine. LUGNET is the only one with agro I read. Although, I did used to be on a Ian Banks mailing list thing, and that was pretty bad. I often wonder if LUGNET (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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