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(...) Hmm, I don't think it ranked how often people posted (e.g., frequency) but listed the total numbers of articles posted by each person for a few groups. Anyway, here's an up-to-date list across all LUGNET newsgroups (I'll post something another (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | New newsgroups for LEGO moviemaking, still photography, and HTML
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Three new subgroups of lugnet.publish have just been created. Some of these are long overdue. Accordingly, the breadth of the main .publish group has been scaled back slightly. Legal issues are still part of the main .publish group (i.e., not their (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Help: Leading Spaces?
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(...) OK, the issue you're experiencing clearly isn't related to LUGNET news. (...) Ya, it's interesting...intrig....something for .off-topic.geek. :-) --Todd (...) LOL --Todd (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Help: Leading Spaces?
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(...) Well at 56k I don't really want to download another browser to try. A little background here: I normally connect via DSL where I live in Ontario. Currently I am in N.B. at my folks' place. So I am dialing into a local "roamer service" number (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Help: Leading Spaces?
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(...) That's truly bizarre. Even if it were a server-side issue, no server-side fault or even a client application fault should cause your Internet connection to drop carrier. You've got something very strange going on in your system. What happens (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Help: Leading Spaces?
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(...) [example snipped because they are causing the problem too] Okay, based on some little tests I just ran in .test, and the results of trying to reply to your message, I can better describe this now. I can't show you because it keeps blowing me (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Help: Leading Spaces?
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(...) I'm still here. Please stand by..., I keep getting pitched when replying to your msg... KDJ (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Help: Leading Spaces?
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(...) Do you mean that when your list items were indented, like this, for example: 4) Wait some amount of time, at least a few minutes. that your browser locked up when you clicked the "Post" button, but then when you took out the leading spaces and (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Help: Leading Spaces?
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(...) No. When I first emailed you I couldn't define the problem, so it seemed intermittent. Once I figured out the cause (the leading spaces) it became repeatable. (...) The former. (...) A single space will cause the problem. More than one have (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Help: Leading Spaces?
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(...) When you say "intermittent," do you mean that it happens sometimes but not all the time? What do you mean by "leading spaces"? Do you mean lines that begin with space characters (i.e., ASCII #32) or do you mean whole blank lines? About how (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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G'day Todd, Over the past week or so I'd sent a couple messages your way regarding an intermittent posting problem using the web interface. I hadn't received a reply, but I guess you've been sick/busy. But anyhow, I have since been able to get a (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Message-ID -> Article number
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(...) Something like X-Message-Archive: (URL) be very nice. --Todd (24 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Message-ID -> Article number
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(...) 1) They're gunky looking. 2) They contain no useful information to a human. 3) They can be very, very long. I've seen some here bigger than 80 characters in length. That makes them unsuitable for URLs. 4) The thought of putting NNTP ID's in an (...) (24 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Message-ID -> Article number
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(...) It would still not solve the problem of refering to an article which is refered to by an article you have. Say you have a bunch of LUGNET articles downloaded locally. You want to refer to the parent of an article you have, but you don't have (...) (24 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Message-ID -> Article number
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(...) I wonder why. (...) Great, I'll do that! (...) When I read LUGNET offline at home, the Xref header has the article number on my local news spool. I don't think that number would be too interesting for anybody else. Fredrik (24 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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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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| | Re: Request for groups: movies/LEGO Studio
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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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| | Re: Request for groups: movies/LEGO Studio
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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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