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Todd: My apologies for not getting back to you sooner - I'm catching up on my reading today. (...) Well, really just general discussion of the bulk products. I don't think that everything that is said about bulk bricks really needs to go to Lego (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
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Dave Low <stinglessbee@hotSPA...Email.com> wrote in message news:G9t0tt.5BE@lugnet.com... (...) (.loc.au.vic), (...) 1 per (...) think (...) level. >> > Even if we get our LUGs in the .org hierarchy (below), I think we still >> >need state groups (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
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(...) I think that lugnet.debate would be useful for on-topic controversy (eg perennial faves "does Lego encourage violence?", "why are all minifigs yellow?", "how much does juniorisation suck?"). It should be a default skip-filter though, as should (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
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(...) I agree with Ross. Archive all sub-state groups, retain loc.au.xxx (state-level groups), allow posting at state-level groups (for "who's booking the meeting hall?" type questions). .org.au seems to be working okay for organisation/market (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
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<snip> (...) praise. (...) Go ahead you've got my vote on both. <snip> (...) Perfect, I'd subscribe to it in a New York minute! <snip> There was a thread a couple months ago about possibly reorganizing the (...) Actually I think that doing this (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Reducing the level of chatter in lugnet.lego.direct
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(...) In some groups, the amount of traffic can matter more. But after reading how Todd Lehman set up lugnet.lego.direct, it matters less. Consider the lugnet.scala group: it has almost no traffic, but it serves to allow discussion regarding a (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
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(...) Nonononono, nobody would be required to post raving praise to .rave; the rave area would just be safe haven for raving -- a place where you can't (shouldn't) be chastised for saying nice things, or where you can go to always read nice things. (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) (I like Paul's) OR havesome/wantsome OR have/want OR outgoing/incoming OR outbox/inbox OR heressome/needsome OR helpyerself/gimme OR gottago/lookinfer :-) -Jon (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) I'm not sure it would be a good idea to add either of these groups. On the surface it seems great...but I see a potential let-down. When I read discussions in Lugnet, it seems to me that positive and negative conversations add to the (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
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Hello Todd, hello everybody, (...) Go ahead and do that. In the case of Germany, I have wondered from the very beginning, how we three or so online AFOLs in the Stuttgart area should fill a newsgroup. Traffic in the loc.de newsgroup is currently (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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