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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: <snip> (...) Thanks Todd, I am glad to see another voice of reason in this. Jude What possessed the first person to eat marmite? xFUT lugnet.off-topic.fun (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Posting notices about ldraw.org (and other website) inaccessability
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It seems to me that every so often someone posts about not being able to get to www.ldraw.org. I'm concerned with some problems that users of the site may have getting to it - its definitely frustrating every time a site goes down. One thing I'd (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Load too high?
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(...) Thanks. My fault. I launched a process which forked a bunch of times to do some updates and things. I noticed it too, and raised the threshold. I set the threshold at a low conservative value initially. It's still a bit conservative now, but (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Load too high?
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Just a couple of minutes ago (5:02pm Eastern by my system clock) I received this error message: Server temporarily unavailable due to heavy load. Please try again in a few minutes. several times while trying to load the page at URL: (URL) saw some (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: straying off-topic & marmites (was: Re: the best laid plans of mice and men)
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(...) Eh. I don't know how clearly this came through in my original post, but I really don't think what Scott posted was off-topic enough or sustained enough to complain about. My main point was merely that his reaction was fairly typical of any (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.terms)
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| | straying off-topic & marmites (was: Re: the best laid plans of mice and men)
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(...) I don't think Scott named anyone in particular in connection with that label. He may even have been referring to a brief mail that I sent him. (...) I think this is best dropped. I don't think Scott broke any of the T&C, either. The closest (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.terms)
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| | Re: Special deals at FAO
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(...) LOL!!! Yeah, it saw that everything was overpriced by 30% and it wicked choked! :) No, actually the FAOS webserver is acting squiffy lately. If you hit the reload button a few times, it seems to display the page about 1 out of 5 times. Same (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: the best laid plans of mice and men
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(...) Interesting that you're bemused enough to complain about how oppressed you are, but not enough to do something to change the situation. Interesting also that you chose to respond only to the inflammatory parts of my post, rather than the real (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: the best laid plans of mice and men
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(...) For the record, I am neither "bent out of shape" or "crying".... but just bemused. (...) on (...) I had it for my breakfast this morning, and I liked it so much I had a second helping. It may not sound all that great, but I do know what is in (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: the best laid plans of mice and men
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(...) retort? (...) is (...) to (...) Just to interject, I am the one who brought the discussion to its off-topic status. The original marmite comment was in a post script that Scott wrote in an on-topic message. (...) ^ ^ ^ ^ A post script just (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: the best laid plans of mice and men
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(...) His retort was, at least, posted to the proper group. (...) No, nothing compels you to, but if you're annoyed by an off-topic post, this is the place to say something about it. Instead of getting all bent out of shape when someone points out (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Special deals at FAO
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(...) I think Todd probably needs to add a catagory for over 100%. I don't know if Todd's process chocked when it saw the FAO prices or what. Actually I don't know why Todd bothered putting FAO in the list anyway. There prices are the worst (At (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: the best laid plans of mice and men
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(...) The casual observer usually isn't reading adminstrivia, so won't see my retort - which, by the way, wasn't specifically targeted at you, or even at the (3 or so?) off-topic messages in the specific thread I replied. I've noticed a fair amount (...) (26 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: the best laid plans of mice and men
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(...) lugnet.lego.direct, (...) Anything which keeps marmite off my screen helps. ;-) For the record, I really am in favour of compartmentalisation and all that. However, I am also aware that it tends to fragment threads (especially if one read via (...) (26 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: the best laid plans of mice and men
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(...) Scott, would this have helped? --Todd (26 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Why do we not see diabled people represented in Lego(R)?
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(...) number (...) Hey Todd, Is there some server-side way of doing a pop-up or other warning message before a post is confirmed? Like, say... "Please double-check that your post is off-topic for lugnet.off-topic.debate, and not about Lego or some (...) (26 years ago, 12-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: the best laid plans of mice and men
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(...) Is there some server-side way of doing a pop-up or other warning message before a post is confirmed? Like, say... "Please double-check that your post is on-topic for lugnet.lego.direct, and not about marmite or some other nonsense?" James (who (...) (26 years ago, 12-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Minor tweak
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(...) I am sure Todd will correct me if I am wrong but I believe that the "spam myself" checkbox gets set depending on what you set on posting setup and got placed in your cookie. I did not check this box durring setup and it is not checked when I (...) (26 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Minor tweak
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I agree the red "Posting Message" is a good thing, and the preview, etc. setup is very good. I don't even want to think about going back to a regular newsgroup format - I don't even have newsgroups installed on my PC anymore. Kudos on your great (...) (26 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Concerns with Racial Attitudes and Lego
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(...) One random thought from out of the blue: Several people have commented that they now primarily use the web interface for reading. When this is used, you see the whole thread no matter where it has wandered. Perhaps the web interface should by (...) (26 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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