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(...) According to someone who worked for Ashley at LEGOLAND California, Ashley doesn't actually work for LEGO anymore. If other LEGO employees wish to post there officially, we'll reexamine the issue. (...) Try not to think of it as a restriction (...) (24 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
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(...) Some disadvantages: - On browsers which present the newsgroup list as a hierarchical tree, it's nice to just skip the whole .loc hierarchy - An alpha sort of the newsgroups won't keep the loc groups together In fact, I've actually been (...) (24 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Yea, what about LEGO employees responding to questions in other groups for official purposes? What about lugnet.announce.lsahs? What prompted this change? Frank (24 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: I can't access LUGNET through nntp today
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(...) hmmm... would that cause the 440 error (new users start here)? I've been getting that with slrn when I tried to post from home... and my !@#$!@ verison dhcp may or may not backwards resolve... Might that be the reason? Dan (24 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: I can't access LUGNET through nntp today
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(...) That could be it. IIRC, the HTTP server doesn't do reverse lookups but the NNTP server does. --Todd (24 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: I can't access LUGNET through nntp today
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(...) Tracing route to 152.10.28.104 over a maximum of 30 hops 1 <10 ms <10 ms 10 ms cisco.rv.tis.com [204.254.155.1] 2 <10 ms 10 ms <10 ms Loopback0.GW3.DCA1.ALTER.NET [137.39.4.22] 3 <10 ms 10 ms <10 ms 106.at-3-0-0.XR2.DCA1.ALTER.NET (...) (24 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
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(...) <snip> (...) No knee jerk reactions but I just wanted to clarify something in terms of the orgs and how they fit into this hierarchy. For example would NELUG fit into the hierarchy as lugnet.us.nelug or would it be something different? I have (...) (24 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
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(...) (quoting (URL) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
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(...) I like this, but it would be important that they were all presented together on the web page so that it was obvious they were similar in nature. (...) OK, so where will .nelug (for example) sit? If you slap it under .us it's too broad an (...) (24 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
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(...) I'd be happy with .au.LegOz. I'd think regional LUG discussion could go in .au.nsw, .au.vic, .au.qld etc, avoiding too much clutter. Does .au.market sound like a goer (pending Todd's okay)? (...) (Belches happily.) (...) My monumental 99.95% (...) (24 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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