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  Re: Private boards?
 
(...) I think it was a technical issue. NNTP groups aren't easy to make private without password-protecting connections, etc. --Todd (24 years ago, 2-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Private boards?
 
(...) D'oh, right. I tend to forget that Lugnet is really a NNTP server, since I use the web connection. eric (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Private boards?
 
(...) (d'Oh!) LUGNET is not an NNTP server. LUGNET is the international network of user-groups of LEGO products. For the benefit of LEGO users and user-groups worldwide, LUGNET runs an NNTP server on lugnet.com for NNTP news/discussion groups, an (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Private boards?
 
(...) Gah. Don't you have a day job now, besides correcting me? :D eric (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Private boards?
 
(...) And the server name for that NNTP service is lugnet.com. So lugnet.com is an NNTP server. Steve (24 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
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  Re: Private boards?
 
(...) Nope, lugnet.com is not an NNTP server. lugnet.com is a second-level domain name. The machine which identifies itself as lugnet.com is a FreeBSD box which is _running_ an NNTP server. (Servers are software, not hardware.) The same physical (...) (24 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Private boards?
 
(...) I understand what you mean, but if someone asks me what's the NNTP server for LUGNET, I'll still answer "lugnet.com". It's not news.lugnet.com, or nntp.lugnet.com, just "lugnet.com". Steve (24 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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