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(...) Maybe your mail is being bounced silently on the way in or out? I sent you a complaint via email when you posted the second time but got no reply, leading me to believe you never saw it or your reply never made it back to me. (...) Read the (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yes. Or maybe just lugnet.build... the announce is a bit redundant, perhaps. (...) It's not the low volume per se, it's the pithiness. Posts that appear there are indeed breaking news. When I want breaking news I would like to review .announce (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) IMHO, this would be the better choice, to meld well with the current architecture. .moc.announce is counter-intuitive with what's currently in place. May I suggest that if an .announce.moc group is set up that it does not boost posts into the (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well, lugnet.bulid.announce would be more appropriate in that case. No need to create a new top-level hierarchy. Do the brickshelf and LSAHS subgroups bother you in the web interface? Probably not, but only because of their volume of traffic. (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) If someone feels that a post in a .lego group has relevance to a particular theme or group (whether it be train or castle or what-have-you), why shouldn't they cross-post it? If that someone happens to be a LEGO employee without posting (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Ben Ellermann" <ben_289@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GpDuBw.50H@lugnet.com... (snipped newsgroup comments, see what Larry just wrote) (...) can (...) Hey, that's ok. We don't expect new people to be up to snuff on all the norms around here. (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Me too. Note please that this doesn't necessarily have to be Todd and Suz. (or Steve or Jen or Dan) There are other people who would be willing to take some of the load if empowered to do so. As James Brown said, administration is not (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I thought of a similar idea yesterday (lugnet.moc)after reading about this problem. Lugnet.announce.moc would be great because it would allow us to post all new MOC's together and in their respective newsgroups. Then a person who visits lugnet (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"William R Ward" <bill@wards.net> wrote in message news:m2advvcf1p.fsf@...rds.net... (...) I agree. I was reading the 'top 1000 noisemakers' thread, one of them referenced back to a post where Todd compiled a list of posters in the .cad groups. It (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Lugnet has gotten by just fine without moderators, but that's because historically the admin(s) have been there to step in and say "don't do that" and even delete messages if needed. If it is expected that admins will continue to play a less (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) 1. Don't repost articles to other groups at behest of others (even if they ask nicely). Let them do it. If someone doesn't have posting privileges to some group, it's for a reason, and leave it at that. In lugnet.lego.direct, Jake McKee wrote: (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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"Todd Lehman" <todd@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:GpDp3A.9B9@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) of (...) on (...) groups (...) .announce. I'm not so sure if I'd want a moderated group, if 'moderation' means 'approved by a live person before getting (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That's getting pretty bad. Grrrrr. (...) People shouldn't be doing this. lugnet.announce was never intended for announcements of new (especially updates to) MOCs...otherwise the charter would say so. Perhaps it needs to be moderated. The (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Bulk Lego Auctions
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(...) Agreed. Julie (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'll pipe up here and agree with that. I've never understood why people post MOCs to .announce. That's all I have to say about that. ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head -- Mark's Lego Creations (URL) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) <snip> And this highlights the problem with restricting LD folk to one ghetto... we just got two crossposts of the same article. No way to avoid it... Jason and I did it at the same time. (Had one of us waited to see if the other was doing it, (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) And in all seriousness, I want to assure you that I read this charter before making both of my recent posts. Despite the current state of LUGNET, I have no desire to attempt to skirt charters just for the sake of promoting a website. (...) Now (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Here's the charter of .announce lugnet.announce– General-interest announcements to the community (breaking news about products, releases, contests, events, and sites, etc.); also, important LUGNET information (new features, services, scheduled (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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"Suzanne D. Rich" <suz@baseplate.com> wrote in message news:B6BCCC32-FFA7-1...ate.com... (...) Thanks. Still, strange, because it never arrived for him. I'll have to double check with the ISP that runs zacktron.com that set up his address....could (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Kenneth Wright writes: <snip> I think you went off half cocked. My reply to Cary was thanking him for stepping up and doing what needed to be done. (and lamenting that sometimes people give grief about it) I suspect he (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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