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(...) Posting a FUT to this older suggestion partly because it's still a good idea and partly to see if so doing will get Rob to stop threadjacking every new group suggestion or announcement to point out what a good idea it is... :-) For starters (...) (20 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: New newsgroup lugnet.color
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(...) Wow. LUGNET sure moves fast, provided the right people are (URL) complaining>. This seems like a very unfair move designed to discourage the expression of negative opinions about the color change, for the benefit of a few people who want to (...) (20 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: New newsgroup lugnet.color
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(...) You left out the Antipodeans, the Frozen Northerners, the Bermudans, etc. etc. etc. But it does raise a question... Has LUGNET set up aliases before? I didn't think it had. And if Todd can, *should* he? LUGNET runs in the US so if we ever (...) (20 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: New newsgroup lugnet.color
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I spotted a couple of mistakes in the charter for the new newsgroup. Also is it possible to set up an alias "colour" that also refers to the same group, to make the rightpondians happy? (...) What is "ntial"? (...) Shouldn't "inst" be "color" here? (20 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: New newsgroup lugnet.color
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(...) Hmm, I didn't think of it sooner, but I also bet if I had refreshed the newsgroup listings, It would have shown up. BTW, nice speculation; you should work for Microcough... (20 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: New newsgroup lugnet.color
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(...) <WILD_SPECULATION> I'll bet you anything that OE (*cough* *cough* Microsoft *cough* :-) implements the 'NEWGROUPS' command in the NNTP protocol incorrectly, and in your case sent CMT instead of GMT for the time when querying what new groups (...) (20 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: New newsgroup lugnet.color
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(...) I just got home and turned OE back on to check for new messages and the newsgroup popped up. I think it may have been a delay on your end Todd, somehow. (20 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: New newsgroup lugnet.colour
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(...) Do you mean 'spelled'? ;) A (20 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: New newsgroup lugnet.color
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"Todd Lehman" <todd@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:HxH0Hz.520@lugnet.com... (...) that.) (...) My clock is correct and I using Outlook Express for reading News via NNTP. I just checked the groups list again and now I can see it. No idea why (...) (20 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: New newsgroup lugnet.color
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(...) No, it's there in NNTP. If it weren't, nothing would be able to be posted to it. (The NNTP server is the core, and the web interface sits atop that.) Hmm, what NNTP client are you guys running? (...) Is your system clock set correctly? --Todd (20 years ago, 9-May-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: New newsgroup lugnet.color
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(...) old, (...) moulding (...) make (...) particular home (...) at (...) discussion will (...) to (...) Lego (...) sent him (...) I'm behind the idea 110%, but I believe you shouldn't respond to a color newsgroup post with a request for a parts (...) (20 years ago, 9-May-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: New newsgroup lugnet.color
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It has apparently not been added to nntp. Normally new newsgroups that are available are displayed with a popup window in my reader (outlook express). This hasn't happened yet for me either Mike. (20 years ago, 9-May-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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"Todd Lehman" <todd@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:HxGIqI.1953@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] Any idea why I can't find this group via NNTP? Anyone else having this problem? Mike (20 years ago, 9-May-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: New newsgroup lugnet.colour
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(...) That's great Todd, but you spelt "colour" wrong!!! ROSCO (20 years ago, 9-May-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: New newsgroup lugnet.color
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(...) Please can we have lugnet.parts? Purpose: Art and science of Lego parts: discussion, debate, analysis and history of old, new and desired parts; shape changes and related likes and dislikes; moulding technology, parts production, moulding (...) (20 years ago, 9-May-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | New newsgroup lugnet.color
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A new newsgroup/list lugnet.color has been created for the focused discussion LEGO colors. Cross-posting is OK, within reason, but please be careful to set the followup field to direct color discussions to lugnet.color -- especially rants, (...) (20 years ago, 9-May-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego) !!
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| | Re: Announcing new Legend!
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(...) Jake has told me, and I believe he's told the group here on LUGNET, that Consumer Affairs *does* track this information and *does* relay it to the appropriate department. But, I suppose that might not be good enough for people who "can never (...) (20 years ago, 8-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: alt text misbehaviour? (was some other stuff
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(...) Um, I seem to have taken someone else's misspelling (here on Lugnet within the past few months) to be some sort of common term. I looked up 'caret' and my dictionary has it as ^ while it calls these <> 'arrows'. I'm fine with whatever term is (...) (20 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp, FTX)
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(...) Carets? (...) I've XFUT to admin.nntp so that the nntp/FTX wizards might notice this thread and see if there is any anomaly worth investigating here or not. ++Lar (20 years ago, 12-Apr-04, to lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.admin.nntp, FTX)
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| | Re: More Space Trains!
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(...) I want to make an FTX decoder for viewing view NNTP, so that you'll see posts formatted nicely for plain-text viewing. But it's going to take a while 'til we're at the point where ideas like that can be implemented, because we're still working (...) (20 years ago, 27-Mar-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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