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| (My newsreader objected to my attempt to reply to Todd's original message, so I'm replying to a followup) (...) Lugnet.lego.{rant,rave,debate} get my vote. That makes it more clear that they are distinct from the non-lego groups. I'm not sure (...) (23 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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hermit, structure, tough, decisions
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| | Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
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| (...) I agree. But "rant" doesn't really go with "praise" - how about "whine" instead? That might also keep people from taking themselves too seriously when posting there, if they're "whining" instead of "ranting". (...) In another thread, the term (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) I really like the idea of adding .ebay, .brickbay, and .lego-direct (but call it .shop-at-home or .lsahs) categories. However instead of .swap and .swap.updates I would suggest .barter, .forsale, and .wanted. --Bill. (23 years ago, 10-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) I agree. Keep the .loc prefix. But it might be a good idea to move all the regional "org" groups under .loc, so there's only one geographical hierarchy. And then the train.org can be org.train - the org section would only be for worldwide (...) (23 years ago, 15-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 (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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hermit, structure, tough, decisions
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| Todd Lehman wrote in message <3aa34df1.136496190@...et.com>... (...) I wish you would expand sale to two groups, Ebay and Non-Ebay. (...) How about having a definition that would exclude "for profit" posts. This way if you found a local sale or (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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structure, tough, decisions
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| James Brown wrote in message ... (...) replace (...) lugnet.market (...) I have to "me too" on this post. James has stated me feelings on this quite well. I generally don't even go to auctions, but then I miss the personal auctions that people run (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| Lorbaat wrote in message ... (...) in (...) Any (...) What about market.auction and market.nonauction. I of course would like to see market.auction.Ebay, market auction.nonebay, market.nonauction(sales?), or market.non auction sale.buy trade Rather (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| Gino A. Melone wrote in message ... (...) moderate I disagree on this one. The Idaho group has not seen much traffic, but then again there aren't many of us. As LUGNET membership gets larger, I would expect our Idaho group to become active at some (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| Woah that's one heck of a CC: list up there! Funny, one of which I subscribe too (announce).. and I don't believe that one accepts replies? Todd Lehman wrote: <SNIP lots of message :) > (...) Does debate not fit this area already? I'm unsure as I've (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) I have mixed feelings about trying to apply order in matters of speech. I appreciate trying to make things orderly, and by segregating posts to areas they would be sought in would avoid flames from people who have to wade through messages (...) (23 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| * Delete lugnet.market.auction and lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade and replace these with lugnet.market.forsale, lugnet.market.wanted, and lugnet.market .swap? Why or why not? If you listed some sets you have for sale, and then put "willing to sell or (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) Ah yes, more confusion. Excellent question. If there were a good, standard, intuitive word for "I want to get rid of this," then I think that could certainly stand to do double duty for both .forsale and .swap. I'd hate to see excessive (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) I'm glad you mentioned that. I forgot last night that lugnet.lego.rant (that is, placing it in the lugnet.lego.* subhierarchy) won't really work for the intended all-encompassing purpose of the group. First, the lugnet.lego.* hierarchy is (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) Ah, that's another advantage to their being top-level groups and not part of the .lego.* subhierarchy. I'm glad you pointed that out -- I hadn't seen that. I think it's important that they be separate groups because of their naturally separate (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| In lugnet.admin.nntp, Todd Lehman writes: <snip a whole bunch of thoughtful stuff that needs thinking about> One question now, more later. For groups being sunsetted is it uniformly an "archive it and start over" approach, or are there some groups (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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