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Subject: 
Re: Private boards?
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 5 Dec 2000 14:11:30 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote:

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 HTTP server
for web-based activities, and has HTTP & SMTP gateways to the NNTP news
server.

And the server name for that NNTP service is lugnet.com.  So lugnet.com is
an NNTP server.

Steve



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(...) 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)

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  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)

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