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Re: The Relationship - LEGO and its Fans (was: Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings)
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Fri, 16 Mar 2001 19:15:54 GMT
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Lorbaat wrote:
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> In lugnet.admin.nntp, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > In lugnet.admin.nntp, Eric Joslin writes:
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> > > Given what I know of Brad, I find it difficult to picture him going home at
> > > night and puzzling over the best way to shape up his MOC.
> >
> > Given what I know of Brad, I don't find it difficult at all. Not in the
> > slightest. Maybe you don't know him that well. Or maybe you're a better
> > judge of people, even with less data to go on, than I am. I don't think Brad
> > really wants his AFOLness bandied about which is why he didn't make a big
> > deal about it and why I let it slide the first time you brought it up. (I
> > confess, I was talking about Jake and Tomas and Ashley (who doesn't work for
> > LD) rather than Brad)
>
> Gah. Fine. I'll concede the point on all four of them. It makes no
> difference to my real point- which is that the (possibly temporary, until a
> workaround is designed/found) inconvenience of four people is nothing compared
> to the strengthening of the core values of a community of 950+ members and
> countless (unless Todd wants to share it) non-member posters.
Gee, I'm glad my inconvennience doesn't matter, nor Larry's, nor anyone
else who thinks it's going to be a pain to find the official answers to
questions (should they ever come under the new world order)....
Perhaps I should switch to exclusive web viewing of Lugnet. Of course my
links pages will stop getting updated since I won't have a trivial way
to mark a post as "come back to this one later" (my secret technique for
this is to mark it unread, something modern viewers make pretty trivial,
but a secret I started using more than 10 years ago with rn - I wonder
how many modern newsreader programmers would cringe at my regularly
pulling .newsrc up in an editor...), but then who cares (actually at
least a couple people care - too bad someone else hasn't been inspired
to do the same for some of the other groups, I'd love to see a complete
trains index, but I'm over 5000 posts behind there, I'm not even sure
when I'll catch up on the thousand or so castle posts).
In a way it's kind of funny how lugnet is so compartmentalized, yet when
I use the web interface, it's just treated as one big happy single
newsgroup (I rarely step into the individual message areas except to
narrow down a search).
Hmm, if I end up writing my newsreader like interface for the web, I
might even make it keep it's .newsrc out on the web for convenient use
from anywhere. My indexing job would be a lot easier if I could have the
same list of read/unread posts at home and at work (even if I only
edited the links pages in one place, I could still leave as read the
non-interesting posts). But, this project will probably never get off
the ground, I just don't have the time.
--
Frank Filz
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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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