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Todd Lehman wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> (...) Gosh, I hope there aren't any groups which you aren't aware of the purpose they are intended to serve (though obviously you would have to do some poking around in the logs to determine for sure whether or (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm not a selfish guy Larry, I was thinking of others and making a suggestion at the same time. If I could customise the homepage, I'm sure it'd end up like the old one pretty much - call me conservative (with a small c). Like I said, this is (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Are links to news items on www.lugnet.com going to work forever, or are old news items with URL cross references going to break at some point? (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) some (...) to (...) I'm not following you, I guess. Can you clarify what it is you are wanting? You said "I want behaviour X, and can we have a cookie to give it", I said "here's how to do behaviour X using current system capability with no (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Sure, I have done the same. Whether it is better or not is another issue. I'm not bothered either way though to be honest - I'll be sticking with news. for the time being. My take on the new page is that it is more for new users than existing (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I like the news view so I overrode my bookmark that used to point to www... to now point to news... Isn't that easier than using a cookie? At least for now. Certainly if we get to where non members can customize, maybe cookies are the way to (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) For example, you won't be able to (sometime probably within a week) be able to read news at www.lugnet.com anymore -- the only reason you still can now is just for backward compatibility and a gentle switchover. Those old URLs (now deprecated) (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) (Which isn't to rule out the possibility of customization -- only that that URL is the homepage and other top-level subdomain URLs aren't homepages even though they're top page. If you take my meaning!) --Todd (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Actually, there aren't two homepages. If you look at the icons at the top of the news site, one is called "Home" and goes to (URL) and the other is called "News" and goes to (URL). The former is the LUGNET homepage and the latter is the (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Rather than having 2 homepages, is there no easy way to have a cookie or some such thing, allow users to choose/design their own homepage? Scott A (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Ooook -- eeep -- opppp -- orkkk -- red flag alert! (...) Egad! What a terrible, horrible, rotten thing to say! How can you truly mean that? I submit to you that there is no such thing as a bad LEGO MOC builder, just as there is no such thing as a (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.admin.general)
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I hate replying to my own post but I am going to do it here to summarize. This is what lugnet is all about to me right here. People communicating with a manner of courtesy in an open environment. I asked for feed back on my idea and I thank (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) OMG, you said exactly what I was thinking! Serves me right for not reading ahead...OK, well, ignore my other post. --Todd (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hmm...that would work if you were posting to only one newsgroup and not crossposting. If you wanted crossposting, it would have to have multiple drop-down list-boxes. Using JavaScript, multiple list-boxes could be filled from a single data (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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If you used to watch a certain morning channel until some time ago, Agro was the co-host and puppet on a TV show which ran cartoons with this puppet and his sidekick/volunteer from the audience joining in. Somewhat wild in places, goofy in others, (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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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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