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| Well I finally got around to completing the transition of my personal site from my old GeoCities site: (URL) my new NELUG site: (URL) have only moved over those parts of the site that I have decided to continue to maintain (Mainly my Model pages). (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.publish)
| | | | | new and improved(?) craigo-lego
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| hi y'all ~ i just want to announce a couple of new things in the world of craigo-lego... first off, is the new e-mail address. i've activated an entire webtv account for nothing but lego. this gives me lots more storage (memory is a precious thing (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Global Explorer Website Finally Finished - Space Theme
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| At the beginning of this year I build a large-scale planetary exploration vehicle called "Global Explorer". After much procrastination, the website for this project is finally up. It can be found at: (URL) site is simple, but contains over 100 (...) (25 years ago, 20-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.space)
| | | | | WAMALUG was NOVALTC
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| This is to annouce that the Northern Virginia LEGO Train Club has officially changed it's name to the WAshington Metro Area LEGO Users Group. This was done in order to meet the varied interests of the train club and to foster new membership who may (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.org, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.loc.us.md, lugnet.loc.us.dc, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | NELUG Turns 50!!
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| This is a quick message to announce that NELUG now has 50 members. The member breakdown by region is as follows... (Some of my earlier guesses were a little off. These are official numbers from submittal forms) 30 - Massachusetts 4 - Connecticut 2 - (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.ri, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | LUGNET Memberships
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| I'm happy to announce that formal LUGNET memberships are now available. :) Things won't be very fancy initially (no map or other web-toys yet) but this gets the ball rolling and begins to pave the way for much more to come later down the road. At (...) (25 years ago, 14-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.people) !!
| | | | | Stay tuned...
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| Stay tuned for an exciting announcement later tonight... :) --Todd (25 years ago, 14-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Make-A-Wish
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| Hi All, This message is of most benefit to people living in Perth, Australia, but I thought others in the LEGO community would be interested too. The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Australia have organised a fundraiser for 8 year old Ben Hamilton who's (...) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.au.wa.per, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | LEGO name change
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| This is an important announcement for any LEGO fan who has a web site containing disclaimers. The descriptive phrase "the LEGO Group" has changed to "the LEGO Company." Its use applies to all LEGO companies, workplaces, and the organization as a (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.announce)
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| | | | | | Chicago Legofest/Museum of Science and Industry Mindstorms event Dec 4
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| Well, there's been a little interest in the Chicago Legofest idea. Its been brought to my attention as well that the Museum of Science and Industry is having a Mindstorms robotics competition on December 4th. It would be a good idea to couple that (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.il.chi, lugnet.org.us)
| | | | | 2000 catalog FOUND!
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| Acting on the tip from the RTL post, I stopped by Target today on my way home from work and picked up a snow speeder. Jackpot! I'm scanning it now... KL (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | New newsgroup lugnet.cad.ray for LEGO ray-tracing
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| A new newsgroup lugnet.cad.ray has just been created. CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== -> lugnet.cad.ray (group): Ray-Tracing as it applies to LEGO: software tools and libraries; tips & techniques; in-depth technical discussions about element modeling, (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
| | | | | Three Cheers
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| [Crossposted to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.robotics, and lugnet.announce; followups to lugnet.dear-lego] All, This is a rally for everyone to give a round of applause to the LEGO Group for its unprecedented overture this past week. (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Re: New robotics sub-groups for RCX-Java, Palm Pilot, Telerobotics, VLL, Scout, Micro Scout, and Code Pilot
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| (...) Oops, almost forgot CyberMaster (thanks, Ralph!)... (...) lugnet.robotics.cybermaster (group): LEGO TECHNIC CyberMaster™ programmable brick: software, ideas, radio link, connections to/from/with other programmable bricks and host machines, (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | New robotics sub-groups for RCX-Java, Palm Pilot, Telerobotics, VLL, Scout, Micro Scout, and Code Pilot
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| Seven new subgroups of lugnet.robotics have just been created, covering the following topics: - JVM/Java/Jini for RCX - Palm Pilot / Palm Computing - Telerobotics - LEGO MINDSTORMS Visible Light Link (VLL) protocol - LEGO MINDSTORMS Scout (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | Charters for product-line/themed groups clarified
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| All, The written charters for the product-line/themed groups created a couple months ago were too restrictive and over-simplified. Except for lugnet.trains and lugnet.starwars, which were created at the beginning, the themed groups mentioned only (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Fabuland group (was: Re: 34 new newsgroups!)
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| (...) Oh, my!...Fabuland got lost in the shuffle somewhere. OK, there's now a Fabuland group: lugnet.fabuland <==> (URL) can't believe nobody noticed! I *know* there are tons of Fabuland fans out there! :) --Todd (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Been to Datsville Lately?
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| If you haven't, check it out at www.lugnet.com/cad/datsville. Lots of great new archetecture has been added, and minifigs have started to appear (even if some seem to be "floating"). Residential lots in central Datsville are becoming scarce. If (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Updated web site
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| I've updated my web site at: (URL) still contains mostly links, but I've copied all the stuff off my AOL web page, so now there's some non-LEGO stuff there also (some of which may be of interest - some caving and train pictures). I've been slowly (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce)
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