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A new newsgroup lugnet.market.appraisal has just been created. CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== lugnet.market.* (hierarchy): Auctioning, buying, selling, trading, exchanging, and shopping for LEGO® products -> lugnet.market.appraisal (group): Appraisals, (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.appraisal, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Search button
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(...) Now just a quick "heads up" on a slight interface subtraction -- (...) This was based on outdated information. Although the LUGNET server still has to take into account bugs like this in old versions of MSIE, recent versions do not appear to (...) (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Introducing NALUG!
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Introducing NALUG, the Northern Alberta Lego Users Group! About a year ago, Chris Gray and I got together and organized a meeting of all the local AFOL's we could find, and it worked out quite well - you can see the results here: (URL) Everyone had (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.ab, lugnet.loc.ca.ab.edm)
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| | more drafting paper...
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...Well, I dont like it as much as my previous papers, but I scratched up a new sheet of Project paper. This time its got 3 views: overhead, front and side. And now that I've got it, it is kinda useful (tho I could only do 20x20 grids and make it (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Search button
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Just a quick "heads up" on a slight interface addition -- We need to add a clickable "Search" button next to the newsgroup search boxes at the top of most pages, due to a forms bug in Microsoft Internet Explorer (and possibly other Netscape clones). (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | announcing Jain's Guide
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Jain's Guide ((URL) the premier guide to the fighting men, women and equipment of the sector is looking for reporters and photographers to submit stories and photos of the equipment and mecha used throughout the sector. ...Have you ever dreamed of (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | New dat viewer survey
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I have a small survey on marsbase to find out what .dat file viewers are being used. Check it out at: (URL) Vaughan ben@marsbase.com (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | DAT Explorer permanently online
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I finally added the system load check to the DAT explorer so I can leave it online. Previously some nasty web grabber programs were forking 25+ paralell povray processes and grinding the machine to a halt. Now if the system load is above 2.0 you (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
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| | Lego Maniac's Webring turns 3!
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Greetings Just thought I'd drop a quick note saying that today is the Lego Maniac's Webring's 3rd birthday. The ring has over 160 sites and still experiences steady growth. The URL for the ring homepage is: (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org)
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| | Fun goodies for your browser's toolbar
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If your web browser has a "personal toolbar" (sometimes also called a "links bar") and supports JavaScript, here are some goodies you can add as browser hot-buttons to make your life easier. Installation takes about 5 minutes -- and once it's (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | drafting paper
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...I just posted some drafting paper I made to LEGO scale in Corel Draw to the brickshelf gallery (warning: they are PDF files and are huge downloads!) Use and enjoy :-) (URL) can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f roberts wildlink.com (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | WAMALUG pics from Mar 12th meeting
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Hey all - I just put up the pics from today's WAMALUG [1] meeting... No trains today (except Kevin's metroliner (doh! no pics of that!) and Rich's Blue station)... But we did have some castle stuff, some iceplanet and a pirate ship :) Also, our (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.publish, lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space)
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| | US S@H Specials, Mar 13 - Mar 19, 2000
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(URL) Melody the Musical Camel $14.25 $ 8.75 2017 Primo the ChooChoo Train $22.00 $11.00 Duple 2696 Tractor $16.50 $13.00 System 6199 Hydro Crystallation Station $99.00 $79.00 6558 Shark Cave's Cove $33.00 $16.50 Technic 8245 Robot's Revenge $33.00 (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | New newsgroup lugnet.admin.terms
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A new newsgroup lugnet.admin.terms has just been created for discussions, questions, and issues relating to the LUGNET Terms of Use Agreement, (URL) the surface, it seems kind of silly to have a whole newsgroup/mailing list devoted just to a (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.terms)
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| | Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
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(An update on an earlier announcement 2 days ago...) (...) The original list above was adjusted downwards to simply the lugnet.admin and lugnet.off-topic subtrees. (In other words, lugnet.market.auction and lugnet.market.jambalaya are included again (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | *Giant* Bricks at Potomac Mills + More!
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I went to the Potomac Mills, VA Outlet store today to pick up some purchases and took my camcorder. I got pictures of the Giant (5x10 foot!) bricks in the mall as well as some neat stuff in the store, including Star Wars posters. I tried capturing (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | .datFest Update
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Greetings Just thought I'd give a little update on 'progress' on .datFest. In reality, there hasn't been any. The last place I talked to for sponsorship/hosting was the Boston Museum of Science. The good news is they said they would look into it, (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.datfest, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Cleaning up the main homepage
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All, I've been up most of the night tonight recoding and retesting the code on the server which displays lists of messages, in particular the root home page (URL), which gives a top-level overview of current activity in the system. Recent off-topic (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | New LEGO® Brick Store Website Now Open!
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Hello Everyone! Just a quick note to let everyone know that my new Website is now up and running! Troy's LEGO® Brick Store is available at: (URL) store stocks numerous LEGO® items in quantity and offers them for direct sale to you at reasonable (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Lego Mindstorms (and me) at IBM's "barcode" party tomorrow
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Hey people in the Boston area: IBM's developerWorks is having a "barCode" party at Jillian's tomorrow night. The main attraction is Miguel de Icaza (of GNOME fame), but there's also gonna be Lego Mindstorms there to play with and look at. (URL) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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