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Holy cow! I kept this message open on my desktop since it first appeared so that I could think about it and then remember to reply to it. It was message 317 in this group. The latest now is 680! Brutal. Anyhoo... (...) Todd, I agree 100% that the (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) No, it's completely outside of my abilities. Moreover, I'm too much of a jerk and a loser ever to say that...much less to mean it. (...) "Nice try" is my most-polite-as-possible response to what was an all-too- obvious attempt at (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Hmm...why does there always have to be a why to everything? (That's a philosophical question, not a blunt retort.) (...) Weren't established with that in mind, and still aren't. To put it another way, if all these groups were just now being (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) An official post requires a certain stationary (aka email address domain) and a particular signature with specific elements in it. Have I understood you correctly? Is this actually documented anywhere? This would seem to suggest that lacking a (...) (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Proposal: remove lugnet.dear-lego, or clarify its purpose
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(...) I have. I posted several articles on that thread. See the results of this search to see them: (URL) William R Ward hermit@bayview.com (URL) are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."-Groucho Marx (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
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(...) Does it matter if they make a profit? If someone is going to go to a store and pick up some discounted set as a favor for someone, what's so terrible about them making a couple bucks on the deal? I think that very few AFOL's actually take in (...) (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Since I've been out of it for a while, can you elaborate on what changed for the worse and how? Thanks... Lou (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Unless you sign YOUR posts as "news admin" or something similarly official, I certainly do wonder when they are official or unoffical, so yes, I agree. ++Lar (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Todd, You just can't say "OK" or "thank you" can you? Mark did what you asked from him, even though it was unnecessary and not really called for, but yet he did what you asked. I would, without a doubt, say he is the bigger man now. You have (...) (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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Sorry this is quite a bit more than a couple of days. I guess we all got a bit distracted by our other discussion... (...) I guess as long as a lugnet.org group remains I am not to worried about this. (...) That sounds like it might be a little bit (...) (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) That's hard to judge until a few months have passed. I have a very good feeling about this. (...) It's impossible to answer that question completely, since it's a fuzzy thing. However, we should trust that Brad and his people will do the right (...) (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: A letter to Todd
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(...) Nice try. --Todd (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Hmmm. That'd be Perl, right? 8?) ROSCO FUT: .off-topic.fun (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) You know, you have a good point here. I also generally take the popular media to be my arbiter of good taste, moral authority, and, by and large, a reliable measuring stick of normative and appropriate behavior. Thanks for clearing that one (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Mark Papenfuss writes: <snip a whole heap of well gathered information> I'm preferring to take a very simple approach. It's Suzanne and Todds site. We're participants, but not the authority that regulates this site. If Lego is (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) To each his own. We all should be VERY grateful to Todd and Suzanne for all they have done. Shame on those who have nitpicked what Todd has created for all of us to enjoy. When I came ot of my dark ages and discovered LEGO trains, I was (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) See, you put me in a spot that I am sure I will get bashed on no matter what I do here. If I do post here, I will be re-entering a thread I said I was out of, and If I do not reply then it will be used against me as I refused to apolisize. So (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Thank you. On your way out, would you care to apologize to everyone for your use of profanity here last night? --Todd (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) I'm not going to address whether or not you were acting like you were thirteen, such a discussion can only be insulting either to you, thirteen year olds, or both. But you weren't "polite and respectfull." Note Todd's examples and there were (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Rose, I'm not positive what it is you're asking, but if it's whether the marketing aspects of Bionicle had anything to do with the decision to rigidize policy constraints on official LEGO postings here, no, it didn't. It just helped it happen (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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