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  Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
 
I'd like to kick off a discussion about the current state of the newsgroup structure here -- missing groups, unnecessary, groups, annoyingly or confusingly named groups, etc. The goal of this discussion is to come away with a list of practical (...) (24 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.admin.terms, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.debate) !! 
 
  Re: Animefringe: Macross in the key of LEGO
 
(...) Actually (technically, that is), you didn't... The first message said "I go burned out..." and the second one said "I got burned out..." In other words, even though the web posting interface does some checks to weed out accidental duplicate (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: Change in e-mail address
 
(...) Thanks, Todd! (24 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: New Bulk Ordering Newsgroup?
 
(...) James, could you give some examples of non-marketplace bulk ordering topics? Do you mean things like selection, quantities, colors, wish lists, etc., or things like speculation, excitement, etc.? (...) Once upon a time there was a thread about (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  New newsgroup lugnet.build.ancient
 
lugnet.build.ancient has also now been added. New info below... (...) -> lugnet.build.ancient (group): Ancient settings: creations, ideas, architecture, peoples, history, etc. (...) news://lugnet.com/lu...ld.ancient or (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.announce)  
 
  Re: Change in e-mail address
 
(...) That's a setting in your newsreader...refer to its docs. To ask the LUGNET NNTP server to being accepting messages from you from a new or different address, simply fill out the news-posting setup form again with your new address: (URL) to (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: HTML links via web interface?
 
(...) Figures..., I'm always a little slow out of the gate ;] Well thanx for cluing me in, KDJ ___...___ LUGNETer #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada (24 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: Problem with followups
 
(...) Yup, it was sent in through the news-by-mail gateway. (...) It does map Reply-To: to Followup-To: and vice-versa, but it's possible that Alan said Reply-To-All or some other reply option which caused the Reply-To to be ignored when he (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Problem with followups
 
This reply to a post of mine: (URL) to have been posted from a mail reply. Does that properly handle followups or did Alan specifically crosspost back to lugnet.lego.direct? I guess I also need to try and write more clearly since Alan basically just (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: HTML links via web interface?
 
(...) The second one...with the enclosing <>. (...) It's just some magic code in the web interface (not in the NNTP server) when you view a message. The raw message still contains exactly what you typed -- it just gets displayed specially. (...) (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: HTML links via web interface?
 
(...) G'day Todd, You mean all he had to type was this?: [posted without enclosing <>] set:6949 Robo Guardian [posted with enclosing <>] <set:6949 Robo Guardian> I pasted that from the link you gave. How does that create a link without any kind of (...) (24 years ago, 18-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: Unable to post via email.
 
(...) I'm not sure what the ultimate workaround for this is, but basically, the server is rejecting the mail because the mail transport agent that identifies itself as Internet Mail Service is broken and has caused article-threading problems here in (...) (24 years ago, 18-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Unable to post via email.
 
I have been trying for a week or two to get posting via email working. It works via the web, but I can not get it to work via mail. I get the followng response: Your message could not be accepted. Response from the news server: 441 Invalid mailer: (...) (24 years ago, 17-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: HTML links via web interface?
 
(...) text (instead of the link) display in place of the link? No, that's not supported. Here's what the author of the above post wrote, though, if you want to make that type of link: (URL) (24 years ago, 17-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  HTML links via web interface?
 
I was wondering if its possible to post links using the web interface like found in this message: (URL) #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada (24 years ago, 17-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: An idea for a new group?
 
(...) OK, can you give a few examples of things that don't fit into .debate, .fun, .geek, etc.? (Not disagreeing, just curious if new examples have popped up in the past few months.) Some things that were issues before were things like where to p&m (...) (24 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?)
 
Hi, Just for the record. I was born Robin Jones. I married Tina Sayce Tina was the last Sayce in her family so we decided to hyphenate. Hence Sayce-Jones. You wouldn't believe the number of variations we get when we say this over the phone. As for (...) (24 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
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  Re: 6769 Fort Legoredo on sale at Shop At Home!!
 
(...) For us AFOLs, it was an incredibly nice thing to do. And for LD, it's a nice way to gather a data point on our buying power. It's a win-win. But... (...) Actually, it doesn't really belong in the main .announce group -- it was an unsolicited (...) (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  help followup-to
 
(...) Aya...something maybe 16x16 with a question mark or something. Downside of an image-based link is that if it's borderless, it's hard to tell if you've been there before, but that's not probably much of an issue with help pages; and if it's got (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)


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