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(...) And the server name for that NNTP service is lugnet.com. So lugnet.com is an NNTP server. Steve (25 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Damn spall checker - Intelligence. Your interpretation of my lazy spell checking conveys the same point. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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trimmed lugnet.admin.general and lugnet.off-topic.debate from the FUT, added lugnet.general (...) I like verdigris as a color name but given that TLC has introduced several colors now with the saturation value turned way down (blue-gray and (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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(...) Absitively. I couldn't agree much more, although it *is* rather sobering sometimes. (...) Verdigris? Didn't he do the soundtrack to 'Chariots of Fire?' I actually like that a lot. So what do we call the LoM grey-pink-- rouxigris? :) (I still (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) "inelegance" ?? Do you mean in the anorak sense? I had always thought that the thoughts produced by those I regard as truly awesome intellects tend to be, on average (not always, of course) be *more* elegant than normal. Thoughts that when you (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hmm. I suppose it depends on what you mean by average. I assume you are just rating myself, and others, against your own above average intellect? Perception of intellect is an area which always exasperates me. I find that people mix these (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, I can tell you my perception has changed since I accidently fell into a debate recently. You know those people who have an inner smugness from the knowledge that in any given gathering of people they are generally smarter than just about (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Gah. Don't you have a day job now, besides correcting me? :D eric (25 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) (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 (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) D'oh, right. I tend to forget that Lugnet is really a NNTP server, since I use the web connection. eric (25 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Todd, Thank you for personally responding. I am glad to hear that the membership packets are indeed still being distributed. I can only imagine the amount of time this must consume. Thank you for your continued efforts. Sincerely, Ken Wright (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Maybe it would be too much overshoot for the job, but last week some computer company send me an advert. It featured a special laser printer, with he size of an HP 2100, having three separate magazines for advert brochures/cards, letter (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) No! I disagree! Etc etc. :) Darned UUs! Any forum is only as good as its practitioners. Since LUGNET went 'live' I've operated with the assumption that .debate matters stay in .debate, and expect others to do the same--I've only once seen what (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No, it's a good point. I was wondering about that myself. I, of course, would like to think I'm nifty! enough that I don't let how things go in one group influence how they go in another, and especially not to the point of lambasting a (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I don't want to drag another thread into the discussion about .debate, but in the following post: (URL) says: (...) Larry - I'm curious, do you feel that your response to Christopher may have been more harsh than it may have deserved to be, perhaps (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I would like to see .debate be able to exist as something worthwhile, but I sense that with each debate which explodes into a ravaging god vs science debate, we lose another of the folks who are interested in serious debate. I'm not sure how (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oops. My bad. I should have caught that, but as you say, I was away for what has got to be one of the biggest weeks on l.o-t.d and was racing to mow through hundreds of posts. At this point I'm overwhelmed and haven't even looked at the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Some thoughts: - I've wondered if .debate should have a no-crossposting rule, except for crossposting in (which can easily be checked, for a post to be accepted which is cross-posted in .debate and any other group, it must be a followup to a (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It leaked over here when a .debate novice set FUT incorrectly to point here just because something funny was said. I set the FUT back in my reply, but of course, once ONE post appears in a group, you always run the risk of latecomers missing (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It's not possible, no. Security and privacy issues as well as technical logistics. What I need to do to break the bottleneck is change the way I print cards. Most of the steps of the other stuff are automated but there is a manual step with (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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