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I just got a new US Shop at Home catalog, and it's not the one with 3225 "Classic Train" on the cover. It says "Holiday Magic!" at the top, and has a drawing of Minifigs standing in front of a Christmas tree with open books, appearantly singing (...) (26 years ago, 3-Nov-98, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | Website update, pictures of a 40 brick high pyramid!!!
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Well, finally the pictures are there! An 80-stud wide pyramid, plus a 96-stud wide "half" pyramid! Also some other pictures of my invaded launch pad......go to the address below, select MOC's........ Also some examples of limited storage (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-98, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.storage)
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| | New NNTP ports! (Re: Possible 2-minute downtime today)
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Good news -- you can now connect here via NNTP using ports 8000 and 8080, in addition to the standard NNTP port 119. If 119 (the default) works just fine for you, then there's nothing you need to change. Otherwise if you're behind a firewall or (...) (26 years ago, 30-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Gary Istok sent me more pictures...
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You can find them on my site. Go to the bottom of the LEGO(tm) page and you will find two links. One sources from voyager/jeffK and the other sources from Xoom. Content should be identical. Problems to me via email please, I am about to submerge in (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Shell Promotional Sets in Puerto Rico
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A co-worker told me that the Shell station in front of us have a lot of boxes marked LEGO, so the promotion should start very soon here in Puerto Rico I don't know if this is the same for the rest of the United States.(1) Osvaldo Fernandez (...) (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.pr)
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| | Possible 2-minute downtime today
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Some changes in the server's xinetd.conf are being made today so that the NNTP daemon can respond to other ports besides 119. This may or may not require a reboot (depending on how smart xinetd is about this sort of thing). If a reboot is (...) (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Update to BlockCAD gallery
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Hi All! The BlockCAd gallery page has been updated with a couple of new models, and some ray-traces (submarine going into the water). You are all welcome to take a look! (URL) Isaksson (26 years ago, 27-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | lugnet.* discussion groups by mail
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[followups set to lugnet.admin.general] If anyone is interested in receiving lugnet.* discussion groups by mail, I'm going to try a simple news<->mail experiment. It'll be read-only at first (meaning that if you reply via e-mail, your message won't (...) (26 years ago, 24-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Interface changes coming today
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(...) This occured yesterday as planned and approximately 200 people filled out the form yesterday and today. (...) This is now in effect. If you do have any problems posting, or you have questions or concerns, please post them to (...) (26 years ago, 21-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Zany Brainy train exclusives
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I went to Zany Brainy yesterday & met up with a fellow LEGO nut -- he works at the store. His manager mentioned that Zany Brainy will be getting two train "Zany Brainy exclusives" from TLG; a LEGO train & a DUPLO train. Now, he didn't know any more (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Interface changes coming today
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Two web-interface changes are being put into place today. These affect posting only -- not browsing or searching. The first change is mostly transparent and cosmetic -- and you don't need to do anything except to make a mental note that some (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LEGO exhibition in Vienna
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Hi there! I don't know if people are interested, but there is currently a Lego exhibition in 'Palais Palffy' in the center of Vienna, Austria. They sho a lot of _very_ old material. Blue-track trains, wooden toys, plastic cars. Lego cars in 1:87 (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Announcement: The 1998 GREAT CREATE
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***...*** THE 1998 GREAT CREATE ***...*** Annual Build-A-Thon with LEGO® bricks to benefit the Greater Minneapolis Area Children's Crisis Nursery. when: Saturday, November 7, 1998 9:00 am–4:00 pm where: Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Downtown (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: LUGNET logo
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(...) Only if they're made of wood and take money from the Chinese Army. (1) 1 - repressive Tipper (LDraw part# 2379) is an optional extra you don't need to get. ++Lar On the back of my Durango: "Homophobia is a social disease" ======== Posted via (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Updated LDraw Add-On--version 1.4.5
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The LDLite-ready version of LDAO is now available from my website (see URL below). I have not updated the web pages or the readme.txt yet. That will be done tonight. The main changes are: - Addition of [Catalog Tool], which tells LDAO what rendering (...) (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Dutch promo: sets at Super de Boer
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The set numbers of the promo sets are: 2880 Open top jeep (Town) 2881 Parking gate attendant (Town) 2884 Microlight (Town) 2886 Formula 1 car (Town) 2887 Petrol station attendant and pump (Town) 5900 Treasure hunter (Western) 6100 Crystal hunter (...) (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New CAD/LDraw group lugnet.cad.dat
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A special non-discussion group has been created for posting LDraw .DAT files, which can then be viewed through the web interface using Paul Gyugyi's new LDraw-compatible viewer called LDLITE. The "homepage" of the lugnet.cad.dat newsgroup, from (...) (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Followup-To field required on articles posted to lugnet.announce
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As a helpful interactive reminder that this group is for announcements (as opposed to regular discussions), the server requires that the Followup-To field now be set when posting an article to this group lugnet.announce. (Doing so was always a good (...) (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: 1999 Sets...
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(...) Please, no one respond to the message above in this group. This is an announcements group, not a questions or discussions group. The number of messages posted here should be -very- low relative to other groups. --Todd p.s. This group might be (...) (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | 1999 Sets...
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Does anybody know about the sets that are to be released in 1999? i got a big bucket of orange Legos that are "Halloween'-themed. Orange bricks! That's all of 'em. ======== Posted via the LUGNET discussion group web interface ======== (URL) Search, (...) (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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