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Todd, I tried both trn and slrn on a .newsrc file that tin wouldn't read. They handled it just fine. I've also tried deleting and re-creating .newsrc several times, as well as subscribing to different sets of groups, to see if that would have any (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Problem with Unix tin and Lugnet
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(...) Steve, Another thing to try: Rename (back up) your .newsrc file to something like .newsrc.xyz and then re-run tin and let it load up everything starting from scratch... If it works there when you subscribe to multiple newsgroups (it worked for (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Problem with Unix tin and Lugnet
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(...) What does trn (for example) do when you run the same .newsrc file with it? I wonder if it's corrupt? (Just a thought, since you said that tin hangs when reading groups from it...) --Todd (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Problem with Unix tin and Lugnet
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I'm having some trouble getting the tin newsreader to work properly with lugnet. If I subscribe to more than two groups, tin will hang indefinitely during startup during the "Reading groups from newsrc file..." phase: tin 1.4 release 19991113 ("No (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Newsgroup for LEGO "art" (was: Re: edy lego art)
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(...) Well then how do you define "ordinary"? <gd&r> :) Ja, I agree though -- that's a good way of putting it, and why I was thinking a subgroup of .fun rather than .build... --Todd (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Newsgroup for LEGO "art" (was: Re: edy lego art)
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(...) You could put them in as examples, but of course you cannot make an exhaustive list of what is art, that's just contrary to the nature of art. Maybe the charter should mention that the ordinary LEGO model doesn't belong there, as there are (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Newsgroup for LEGO "art" (was: Re: edy lego art)
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(...) Well, I'd be happy to see it in either place, but I think relegating it to .fun under the assumption that it is a non-standard way to use the Lego elements ignores evidence to the contrary in things like the Ultimate Lego Book, where folks (...) (24 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Newsgroup for LEGO "art" (was: Re: edy lego art)
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(...) Having seen more of Edmund's creations, and noticing that the Mosaic Maker[1] is gaining in popularity, and remembering Ashley Glennon's Minifig Museum of Modern Art[2], I gotta agree -- a group dedicated to "art" could really help all things (...) (24 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: slrnpull and LUGNET?
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(...) It was more or less random to me. I found no pattern, so I gave up trying to report it. Fredrik (24 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Setting the From: header in slrn
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(...) makes sense, message-ids are supposed to be unique, i just wanted to change what part of the random id was. :) also, i'm curious as to the path stamp every message gets .. it seems most people have just '!lugnet', but others have '!lugnet!id'. (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: slrnpull and LUGNET?
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(...) Did it consistently fail or succeed for certain groups or was it more or less random to you? --Todd (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: slrnpull and LUGNET?
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(...) I haven't used slrnpull, but I have experienced the same behaviour with Gnus Unplugged. It would normally function just great, but some times it simply hung when downloading the articles in certain groups. I found some incomplete NOV lines in (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Setting the From: header in slrn
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(...) As long as your newsreader (or posting agent/client) either leaves it blank or sets it to a unique value, it's OK. But it's not something to mess with in the same way that other headers like the 'From:' line can be messed with. IOW, the (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Setting the From: header in slrn
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(...) i must have missed this message when you first posted it. what's wrong with messing with the message-id header? slrn took care of it for me on it's own, but now i let your server do the work. :) it's your server, so i'll leave it alone if you (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | slrnpull and LUGNET?
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Okay, another slrn question, this one about slrnpull. I'm trying to spool LUGNET messages so I can read them offline. However, I'm currently having problem getting slrnpull to actually download messages. (2) I can see (1) that it connects to (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Setting the From: header in slrn
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(...) Nope, it was changing my "From:" field that fixed the issue. Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Wasn't planning to. :-, IIRC, the server would throw away a bogus Message-ID header, wouldn't it? Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Sig probs?
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(...) It's possible that you may have done some testing last week which appeared to have worked but which didn't really work (that is, it shouldn't have appeared to work). The "Brief" mode had a bug in its collapser regex where it wasn't requiring (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Sig probs?
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OK, well, I thought this was supposed to work after all the testing I did *last* week... (the "apple ignore berry" thread?) But nooooo... it seems that my fig refuses to disappear from the brief mode. Anyone know why? -Shiri -- I'll be on vacation (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Coercing truncation in brief view on website (was: Re: test apple ignore berry)
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(...) Two other reasons: 1. To make the brief message more meaningful and clean. 2. Because It Can Be Done. (...) Alrighty, then. Here goes. Grk. In IE5.0.2919.6307, ctl-L is a shortcut for Open. Which is kinda funny, because the menu shows the (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.test, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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