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Hello I'll second this change idea anytime. Paul (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Eeek! Then they're running an auction! (...) I wouldn't call it an "auction-ish" abuse; isn't it simply a human-nature-ish abuse of human-nature that happens to appear naturally in, among many other places, the dynamics of OBO sales as well as (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Has Lugnet itself been /.ed, or has information that people have posted to Lugnet about (like, say, scans of a new catalogue which are being hosted at another website) been /.ed? If it was Lugnet, when was it? I'm confused and curious (which (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Y'Know, I was thinking about this - LUGNet has been slashdotted a couple of times that I can think of, and it didn't collapse under that load. I guess that means that this was a *very* high load - as in probably an attack, and furthermore that (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) or something that will look at the spool dir, see if files are getting stuck there, and just lets you know (pager/email) that something's blocking... (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Yes -- in this case it might be able to be a cron job that checks every 5 minutes and examines the timestamp on the lockfile, if present. If it saw that the lockfile was more than a couple minutes old, it could mv or rm it out of the way. It (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) have you thought of putting some sort of watchdog processes up, to notify you (if not fix automagically) when such things happen? (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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As you may have noticed, the LUGNET newsserver stopped displaying new articles for approximately 90 minutes today. According to the server logs, there was an extremely abnormally high load average for several minutes around 10:00 EST, which seems to (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.nntp) !
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| | Re: Why 2 robotics newsgroups?
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(...) I did -- three times. :-) (...) Try clearing out your browser's cache, then rebooting your OS (which is what, BTW?) --Todd (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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Yes! After doing the book-keeping I still said it incorrectly, but you got it right: I found that (2 URLs) gave me different posts. I'll take your word for it ...must be my mistake... somehow... but I never know on *which* of them my posts or (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Uh, that's the same URL. (...) I don't understand what you're trying to say. Are you trying to say that (2 URLs) you different lists of articles? If so, you've got some strange caching problem with your browser or your proxy server. They're (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Why 2 robotics newsgroups?
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On (URL) the first posts are as follows: (URL) (your answer to my post) Whereas, on (URL) the first posts are as follows: (URL) it seems that new posts do *not* appear similarly in both versions of the same database. Not to be argumentative, but as (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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[followups to lugnet.admin.nntp] (...) Well, actually, there's only one lugnet.robotics newsgroup. It does has subgroups, however, so perhaps that is what you were seeing? At any rate, the first URL you gave above (well, partial URL -- it's missing (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) please ignore this - I installed a new sendmail, and messed up it's config file... fixed since :) - Dan Boger / dan@peeron.com / www.peeron.com / ICQ: 1130750 <set:371_2>: Motorized Truck Set (LEGO/BASIC/Model), '76, Unknown figs (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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I hope this one will get through.... I tried posting earlier, and this is what I found in my log: Oct 26 19:06:43 greywolf sendmail[16480]: e9QN6ge16478: to=lugnet.off-topic....ugnet.com, ctladdr=dan (501/501), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: New newsgroups for product line years
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(...) talk... (...) That'd be great!! Bit tricky to tell a pooter exactly what "about 8880" means though 8?( Todd? ROSCO (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) It amazes me that anyone thinks it's anything of difficulty. As soon as I thought about exactly how I set up Netscape to be able to post to newsgroups (Usenet or Lugnet), I realized that there is nothing to it, so no need to test it. When I (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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This is ultimately a CFD (call for discussion) for a new newsgroup, but also asking what I think may be an important question. It's a taboo question, so do try to keep an open mind. The question is: Are we trying to be too nice to one another? The (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.announce) !!
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(...) hmmm.... I wonder if we could set up the year* groups to automagically take any post about sets of those years.... so any post about 8880 would be copied to year.1994... that way, the year.* would have more than just new sets talk... :) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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