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(...) The culprit seems to be a database table that got horribly fragmented on disk over the natural course of activities in the past year. However, that in and of itself wasn't the problem. The problem was the way the table was being periodicallly (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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lugnet.com experienced an unscheduled service outage today which, according to the logs, lasted for approximately 68 minutes from 15:02 EST to 16:10 EST. I'll have to scour the logs later to hopefully get to the bottom of what caused the problem. I (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd- Quick "style" issue with the map that I noticed - it's "body" color (or background) is not explicitly set to white (or whatever color you want) - so on all of my systems the main background color is a gray with splotches of color for "Regions" (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) 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 (25 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I asked about this sometime ago, but the article seemed to have gotten lost in a great debate that was raging at the time. I was wondering if it'd be possible to provide a single switch to pause the News-by-Mail feature. This way you wouldn't have (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Libertarian debate in danger of pollution (was Re: Will Libertopia cause the needy to get less?
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Perhaps we should consider providing .debate as only an overspill bin for debates from other groups. This would prevent, to some extent, those who wish, at a whim, to create noisy and unproductive debates the ability to do so? I doubt it this will (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Unless you're using a spamblock, the email addresses need to match. If bram@cwru.edu is a valid email address that you can receive mail at, enter that in both fields. --Todd (25 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd, Whenever I try to set my posting address to bram@cwru.edu on the posting page, I get a LUGNET server error email back that says email mismatch or something like that. How can I get the server to accept bram@cwru.edu? It's a valid alias to my (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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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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| | Re: Libertarian debate in danger of pollution (was Re: Will Libertopia cause the needy to get less?
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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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