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(...) I'd hate to see these sorts of references. I'm not always browsing the web interface in a browser that I want the news reader to come up in (and such a reference will be useless to anyone who can't access the nntp server). (...) life a little (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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[redirecting to .admin.nntp] (...) I would really hate to see NNTP Message ID's floating around in HTTP URLs. A workaround is simply to use a standardized NNTP URL format -- for example: news://lugnet.com/qr...eos.uio.no That's postable as-is. Or, (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Request for groups: movies/LEGO Studio
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(...) I agree with this. (...) Not a bad idea, no matter what ends up happening. Whereever there's a "missing group", add a link to the place where the group actually exists. (...) Yeah, that sounds right. Steve (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) I'd say that putting it under .publish is probably the best place to stick it. I think .publish has been pretty well pinned down as the best place for photography techniques. It's also a place acceptable to announce web pages (though it's hard (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Only in your head... ;-) (...) So what you are saying is we should have a group like .images then sub groups like .images.movies, .images.photography, etc... and links on the .images html page to .cad.ray et al? You know what Todd this kinda (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) LOL! OOops, too much coffee this morning. It's not my fault. I just woke up. :-) I meant lugnet.x & lugnet.x.y vs. lugnet.x & lugnet.y, naturally. :-) (...) That's what I'm afraid of. There's so much overlap, but each one gets into specific (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) I gotta remember that one!! (...) Not really. Tell me the difference between lugnet.x and lugnet.x.y (the first one) and lugnet.x and lugnet.x.y (the second one) if you would... But I agree with your thesis, I think. Specific usually ought to (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) I think those names sound like a good start, but if one is a subset of the other (that is, both are for movies but one is more general than the other), then they ought to be named lugnet.x and lugnet.x.y rather than lugnet.x and lugnet.x.y -- (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) How about either lugnet.build.movies or lugnet.publish.movies? I'd lean toward lugnet.build.movies. Steve (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Request for groups: movies/LEGO Studio
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I think that as more people buy and begin using LEGO Studio, there are going to be more films posted and talked about on LUGNET. I'd like to propose the following new groups: lugnet.studios - the 'theme group', for discussion of the sets themselves. (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: FS-Pirate & Town Sets Mint In Sealed Boxes/Pack
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) I am going to reiterate my old argument (Todd has heard this before so I won't state all my arguments again) for an Ebay.auction group. If we are changing things why can't we do this? Please Please Please. (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) I'd vote for .swap. I have no problem with all systems which solicit several cash offers and pick the best offer as auctions. That could even be done without changing the newsgroup names. The things I would be in favor of for more (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: FS-Pirate & Town Sets Mint In Sealed Boxes/Pack
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(...) Yeah. Hmm. I dunno. I was just making trouble, frankly I think .trade or .barter or even .swap would be fine. If you define the group as being specifically for trading LEGO for non-money (or non-money for non-money, if you feel ok about Lugnet (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Yeah. OK, how about .swap? Well, that's probably too close to what .jambalaya is about. Anyway, hmmm...maybe there doesn't even need to be a barter/swap/trade group. After all, how many posts have you ever seen where someone says they want to (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: FS-Pirate & Town Sets Mint In Sealed Boxes/Pack
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(...) Heh. Good luck trying to pin down an english word that means "trading goods for goods" that can't in some way be construed to invlove money. I can haggle over a price with you and call it bartering, after all. :D (...) I think these groups (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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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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| | Re: Newsserver downtime
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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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| | Re: Newsserver downtime
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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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