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(...) It is strange. I checked the server logs and what's shown in the incoming webpage form log matches the message that appeared. In other words, what the server received when you clicked "Post Message" on the web is exactly what your browser sent (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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Well this is a first. Only part of this message got posted. LUGNET was extremely slow last night, bogging and timing out left, right, and centre. I never thought that only part of a message could end up being posted. Man I really don't want to type (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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[I finally trimmed lugnet.lego.direct..., I just now remembered Todd's "Murphy's Law" post.] (...) Well, I didn't read anything in Todd's proposal that specifically addresses cross-posting or redirection. He only proposes what would be done for (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Conveyance, as I used it, is the mode of submission. Lugnet is the publisher of all posts herein. Posts may be submitted by authors on a variety of paper types (aka email address domains). The author of a piece determines credibility far more (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) I think you're totally correct. In the general case, that is. Just not in this case In this case, if Jake, for example, posts something from a personal address and says "this is the real deal" I am only infinitesimally less likely to trust its (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) In the same way that operating a Customer Service Department or releasing new desirable products is part of a marketing strategy, right? So if you read "pure" non-spin information from a TLC employee, while it might not be "marketing" per se, (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Not much of an apology. I hear all sorts of nonsense on TV. However, I have to sense to know what is on TV is not necessarily right or wrong. Basically, I rely on my own (corrupt?) values to let me know what is right or wrong - not TV. Scott A (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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"John Hansen" <JohnBinder@aol.com> wrote in message news:GAIqxs.73o@lugnet.com... (...) content (...) official (...) Content (...) Really? So you put just as much value in an article that is published in the Ridgemont High Student Newspaper as the (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) ?? Suppose I posted a question about Castle which, to quote Todd's post #6 above, raised "Issues/concerns/suggestions which haven't yet been raised" ? The resulting thread, although about Castle, would of course live in .lego.direct. I think (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.lego.direct)
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Todd Lehman writes: <snip> (...) hehe, a little more than I was looking for. But it did make me smile :) I do see what you are getting at (and no, I am not taking that comment seriously) (...) <snip> (...) I think that is up to (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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