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(...) When I say "a large percentage" above, I mean that roughly, say, 80% are crystal clear match-ups. That leaves, say, 20% which aren't, and should be checked by hand. As there are 5200 registered 'From:' lines and 850 members, we're talking (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) To me, too - cool idea. And I can definitely see usefulness, finding your own posts, finding people's pages without multiple searches, etc. (...) Yeah... After all, how many discrepancies do you forsee/approximate within less than 1000 people? (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) This has been a problem ever since the first search function back in 1998, and I'm sorry for all the confusion it has caused when articles labeled "Canceled" show up in search results. In a feverish moment of clarity the other night, I thought (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Sounds good. (...) Good idea there, but - (...) If only a few need to be matched by hand, then why not take that approach and the rest by hand may not need to be matched? Are you going to take the approach we discussed - assigning EVEYRONE a (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It would be a preprequisite, yes, since the association table which would map 'From:' lines to member id's (and vice-versa) would make the rest much simpler. Once that's done (and I haven't begun to attack the problem yet but am becoming (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) put it up for me. HTH ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (25 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) We all appreciate the effort and work that has gone into Lugnet, and our lives may well have been changed after visiting it. I thank you for your hard work, dedication, and time that you have spent on all of us. THANKS TODD! Now go see a (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) <grabs phone> *beep boop beep beep boop* Todd: mmrruuh? Mark: Hello, can I speak to Mr. Seymour Butts? Todd: Wh-huh? Mark: *cackle* <hangs up> ;^D ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin -- Mark's Lego(R) Creations (URL) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Todd, the system here is more reliable than my office network. I think we can all appreciate your hard work. I certainly do, my hat's off to you. (...) Geez, get some rest. I think we'll all live. (Although I did feel a little light-headed (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) The memory upgrade is now complete -- although it wasn't 100% successful. The system's motherboard was reluctant to recognize any DIMMs in the 3rd slot, meaning we failed get to 768 MB and we are stuck with only 512 MB. It may be a faulty (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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(...) My apologies -- this didn't happen today as planned. My guy at the other end of the line (where the lugnet.com box is co-located) called in sick yesterday and today[1], so the upgrade is postponed. I'll post again when we have a new date and (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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Todd, (...) I am really sorry about that. I will *never* do that again without your permission, you have my word on that. About user agent, let me check the documentation. The documentation don't say, but I guess it has "asphttp" on it. I am using (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) without first obtaining permission from the site's administrator or owner. It can be tempting to resort to such things, but fetching pages rapidly can cause a terrible load on a webserver, depending on what you're fetching. Crawlers or spiders (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd, (...) I didn't knew the existence of the (URL) so I came up with a VBScript that uses a generic HTML parser that I wrote (for metasearches websites) to extract data from the Sets Guide and put it into an Access database. The result (very poor (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) What are you parsing? --Todd (25 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) These lists are updated when the data changes: (URL) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I would think it would need and benefit from its very own ng. --Todd (25 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Paul, I just double-checked the transaction history at PayPal (via the Download all activity option)... There aren't any payments bearing your name. Did someone else pay for you? How about double-checking your outgoing-payments folder? Perhaps (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Except for anything directly targeted as feedback to LEGO Direct, it's probably time to migrate the discussion to .off-topic.geek. --Todd (25 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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When will there be a .HarryPotter newsgroup? The sets should be out this fall, but it's not too early to start speculating! Or will this be folded in with .Castle, since that is where much of the speculating is going on. Just curious, Kevin (25 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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