 | | LDraw to display at Legoland California for Kidvention
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Greetings! I've just secured arrangements with Lego Direct to exhibit LDraw at the Kidvention in Legoland California this summer, from July 12-15. This display will consist of: High quality posters of renderings done using LDraw [1], information on (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.legoland.california, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.loc.us.ca.la, lugnet.general) !!
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| | final shirt design
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the BrickFest 2000 shirt design has been finalized: (URL) that's it! the final iteration. Its not the best thing ever, but I like it (and sorry Christina and other castle purists, I just couldn't make a castle fig guy look rite... next year I'll (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.announce)
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| | MarsRobot Update
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After a short and successful beta test, the new MarsRobot website is online. MarsRobot is a general robotics website with a decidedly Lego slant. MarsRobot now includes daily robot news, threaded discussion of robotics topics, a new "themeable" (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics)
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| | BrickFest June 9 - 11, 2000 Washington DC, USA!!!
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fut: lugnet.org.us.wamalug What: BrickFest 2000 When: June 9-11, 2000 Where: Washington DC, USA Web : (URL) is an across the boards announcement about the upcoming BrickFest!!! The BrickFest will include a train/town display, a castle display, (...) (24 years ago, 22-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org.cw, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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| | TORONTO: One more week till Toronto Lego Robotics Event
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Just a quick note to remind Canadian RTL and Lugnet readers about the 5th Annual Toronto Lego Robotics Event: Primal Rage in ABS. Some info: Date: Saturday May 27th, 2000 Time: 10AM Competitors 12PM Audience Place: St Michael's College Theatre, (...) (24 years ago, 20-May-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LEGOLAND, CA Job Fair: Saturday
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This from LEGOLAND, CA website. posted May 16, 2000: (URL) Job Fair: The Parks latest Job Fair is happening this Saturday from 8 a.m. through 2 p.m. at LEGOLAND in Carlsbad. In an effort to find enthusiastic Model Citizens, the Parks term for (...) (24 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.lego.announce, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sd, lugnet.legoland.california)
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| | East Coast Brickfest...
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...The Brickfest web page is up now and has information on the East Coast Brickfest! ((URL) site includes on-line registration, directions and hotel information. Make sure you register so we have some ideas what to plan for (and so we can snag more (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | (canceled)
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| | Coming Soon ... Brickbay.com (Replacement for Bricks)
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Folks, I've been working on a more sophisticated version of what you see here: (URL) it will be a fully automated multi-seller version written in ASP/VB Script connected to a back-end DB where once sellers register, a link will be created to their (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | brickfest.com website now online
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The website for the upcomming BrickFest is online at (URL) has a working registration page. Maps, and other details/info should be up in the next few days. KL (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | East Coast BrickFest information and registration!!!
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...Don't forget! The East Coast BrickFest is less than a month away!! June 9 - 11 2000 in Arlington Va (just outside of Washington DC). WEBPAGE!!! ...The Official BrickFest webpage will have information on the East Coast BrickFest very shortly. The (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.wamalug) !
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| | Change in Greg Williams' website address
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There's a change in my website address. The new address is (URL) . The old one was (URL) I'm not sure how many people link to it so I figured I should post an announcement that it has changed. Actually, the old one still works for now and just (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LUG World Map 1st Version complete.
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FUT lugnet.org For those of you that don't know I have been working on the LUG Map that Todd and Suz have greatiously decided to host here on LUGNET. For the most part we have worked out the issues with keeping the map updated. About the only thing (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.org, lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.org.ca, lugnet.org.nl, lugnet.org.us)
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| | LBFR Additions
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More goodies from Hess Firefighting Apparatus at the Lego Beach Fire and Rescue site: Instructions for Engine 42 A new Ladder 1 with instructions Have a look and, as always, please let me know what you think. Will Lego Beach Department of Emergency (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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| | Answers!!! (and maybe more questions) was Re: East Coast Brikfest!!!
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(...) ...:-) our organization is a touch lacking. But have no fear, this will be fun even if we do muddle through a bit semi-unorganized, I've worked with worse and doing it this way is a bit bumpy, but it will be fun :-) But on the good side, we do (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.announce)
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| | My site also is good now
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My site at (URL) is a lot better now. It has shorter load time, and looks better. It only uses a few images, and looks good. (the site for some reason looks bad in ie so get netscape!) Alan (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.announce)
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| | Chapter 1 of "The chronicles of Scar"
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Hi! Chapter 1 is up, see it here: (URL) bit background info... (please read the chapter before reading this!) : : : : : : : : (I hope you've read the chapter already! this is a spoiler!) : : : : : : : : This chapter started out more than 3 months (...) (24 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle.org.cw) !!
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| | Chessie Steamer
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Well it has been a long time coming but this is my first real project to share with the group. It isn't 100% complete, although the final pieces are on their way here. A big THANKS to all of the people who were willing to swap much needed part to (...) (24 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | May-June 2000 Mania Magazine
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Sorry if someone already mentioned this and I missed it. In the May-June 2000 Mania Magazine on page 6 in "the Adventures of the LEGO Maniac" comic, look what symbol is in the computer screen ... LUGNET! Again, sorry if this is old news but I (...) (24 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | NELUG Button available, Web Site news section reformated.
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OK I know I have been making a lot of changes lately. Bet you can't tell most of my LEGO is in the TCS window display :-). Anyway I have been having fun being creative with the NELUG site as well as the new LUGNET Map pages. First of all I have come (...) (24 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish) !
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| | LDraw CD-ROM - Another Update
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Here's just an update since my last post here. We'll be adding these items to the CD: MLCAD Blockcad Povray (for various OS's, plus libraries) James' Models Ben Whytcross's Database Project (sample) (now all of you can stop emailing me and telling (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev) !
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| | www.nelug.org - Updates, Changes, and new Mailing List
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followups to: lugnet.org.us.nelug This is to announce several changes to the NELUG web site as well as the transition of our old NELUG mailing list to a new Web Based mailing list. (URL) new mailing list has been set up to greatly ease maintenance (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.ri, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me)
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| | East Coast Brikfest!!!
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...Just 1 month to go!!! Don't forget the East Coast BrikFest! June 9-11 Washington DC! Subscribe to lugnet.org.us.wamalug for more information as it becomes available! ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f roberts wamalug guy (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Jain's is still accepting submissions!
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...Jain's Guide ((URL) the preeminent guide to the fighting men, women and equipment in the sector will gladly accept submissions of field reports, equipment reviews, unit interviews, or system guides. ...In addition to our army of field reporters (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Brikwars battle report on Jain's...
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...I wish we had gotten more pics, but here's two versions of a battle report from our March Brikwars game for WAMALUG :-) (URL) (click on the battle report for Atrius). (posting it to the site even as I send this) ...you can go back to ignoring me (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.gaming)
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| | LCad Parts Update 2000-01 Now Available
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[FUT lugnet.cad] The LCad parts update 2000-01 is now available from ldraw.org. The first update for 2000 has arrived. Finally. :) Get it at (URL). Full details are available there. Steve (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce) !
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| | LDraw CD-ROM Update
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Greetings I've been discussing LDraw CD-ROM issues with Don Heyse, Stephen Bissell, and Steve Bliss over the past couple weeks. Don just sent me a master CD-R in the mail of what we have so far. As of now, install files and HTML pages need to be (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.datfest) !
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| | Lego Direct wants page
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I've decided to offer to maintain a "wants" web page in anticipation of Lego Direct. This will be a simple web page, along the lines of the kind of database discussed in the thread (URL) will accept email to catena@xnet.com with your name and email (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.dear-lego) !
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| | New pictures on Brickshelf
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I'm just announcing that I have some new pictures up on Brickshelf. I have a blacksmith shop(which has already been announced to lugnet.caste), a Technic car that I made a couple of years ago, some fire/rescue models, & pictures from when I went to (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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| | 7 new models at Kyle's Universe of Lego
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I have finish uploading over 25 pictures for 7 different new models. These will be held on this preview page untill I have finished making the pages for each individual model. Keep in mind the page is a preview that I threw together rather quickly (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build)
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| | Web Storage Space Available
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Hello. I'd like to announce that my web server has some web space available and that I'd like to offer it to a few lugnet users. It would be hosted on my new business server at (URL) www.speakeasysolutio...<YOURNAME> Each account would get 5 megs of (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: 1000 hits to Kyle's Univese of Lego!
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Sorry, I forgot to cross post this to the different groups! My Bad 8-) (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish)
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| | LDraw Add-On Version 2.1.3
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[XFUT lugnet.cad] I've posted a new version of LDAO. The main point of this new version is to fix some nasty bugs in the 2.1.2 release. But there are one or two small, new features. I've also posted a web-centric download/install version. Basically, (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Streaming news client (Java) on Sourceforge
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Hey all, I have placed my Java streaming news client on Sourceforge. See it out here: (2 URLs) ) It hasn't changed much since I last posted about it, but the creation of the .admin.nntp newsgroup among other things has given me another boost of (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Pre-announcement: member pages
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This is a pre-announcement of an upcoming LUGNET member feature where you can make your own web pages on LUGNET. You'll be able to do it all right from your web browser using HTML forms -- similar to posting messages from the web in that you get a (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | May 27th Toronto Lego Robotics Event
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Hi folks, Just as a reminder, we are set for Saturday, May27th for the big 5th Annual Lego Robotics event. It'll be a lot of fun, whether you are building a robot (please do, read on) or just coming to watch. If you're coming to watch, show up (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New newsgroup lugnet.admin.nntp
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A new group/list for NNTP[1]-related issues has just been created. Probably, you'll just want to ignore it unless you're writing a streaming news client or having difficulties getting your newsreader to do something. CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== -> (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.announce)
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| | English version of my site is launched
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Hi, Dear LUGNET reader! Recently I became a member of LUGNET. I'm very happy to be one of this great community. By the way, almost a half years ago, I started my web site, but it has been Japanese only. Finally I made English version of my site. (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | (canceled)
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| | MOTM May Winner!
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I'm pleased to announce that the winner for the ldraw.org MOTM May competition is none other than Todd Lehman with his Spider Walker model. Take a look at: (URL) and congrats Todd! -Tim (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (24 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | LBFR Apparatus Instructions
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I have finally prepared instructions for most MOC apparatus featured on the Lego Beach Fire and Rescue website. Each set of instructions is a self- extracting archive with a JPEG of each step, so no special software is needed to use them. Start from (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.general) !
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| | Re: Red White and Blue Eiffel Tower
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(...) (24 years ago, 30-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Update to website
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I have recently made a few changes/updates to various parts of my website. I added pictures for Star Wars Episode 5 1/2 (Shaun Sullivan make sure you check it out :) ) I made some changes to the Legofield Fire Company pages and added some new (...) (24 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.town)
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| | Sales at the Potomac Mills Store...
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Called The Buffster about sales at The Store this week: Technic firetruck 8280 $27 6199 Underwater crystal station thingie $51 all UFO stuff is on sale 6836 vwing guy $2 6900 cyber saucer $15 6915 warp wing $24 6975 alien avenger $49 6979 (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.announce)
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| | Upcoming Terms of Use Agreement change
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All, It's long been a point of confusion in the LUGNET Terms of Use Agreement, (URL) or not non-auction market traffic is permitted or verboten in non-market groups. The agreement doesn't specifically state that non-auction flogs (i.e., (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.terms, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce) !
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| | LEGO Project Paper...
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...I fixed my LEGO project paper some and added an isometric (top, front, side) project pad. I redid some of the work on the original papers to make the PDF files much smaller in this increment. And this time included a Mini-fig doodle paper for no (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.announce) !
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| | EastCoast Brikfest!!!
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Just a reminder!!! Set your alarms, mark your calendars, plan your vacations! What: East Coast Brikfest Where: Washington DC When: June 9th - 11th What: A weekend of AFOL fun! Big rooms of castles and towns and space and whatever else we want to do. (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | Soccer Bus Tour dates
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Here are the dates of the Soccer Bus Tour: June 8-11 Carlsbad, CA June 17 Pasadena, CA June 24 San Jose, CA July 1 Dallas, TX July 8 Denver, CO July 15 Chicago, IL July 22 Kansas City, MO July 29 Columbus, OH All Star Game August 2 Tampa, FL August (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Bricks on the Brains Launches today!
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After many hours of coding and many hours of planning, www.bricksonthebrain.com is now live! Bricks on the Brain is the ULTIMATE source for buying LEGO parts online! Bricks on the Brain is meant to make buying Lego parts a truly simple process. (...) (24 years ago, 22-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.general) !
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| | Ratings thrown out; changed to Highlighting (was: Re: the latest news)
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(...) Thomas: First, thanks for your comments (I don't know if I've thanked you directly yet). Second, things have just been "peeled" way back to their bare essentials. The underlying system is almost the same, but it's got a completely new skin -- (...) (24 years ago, 22-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce) !
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| | 5th Italian Legofest
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This event will take place in Italy but is open to friends from any country. Most of the ItLUG members speak English at some level. Time: Sunday May 21st 2000 Location: Carpi (Modena) Italy Activities: - a Mindstorms Sumo robotic challenge; - an (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating)
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(...) First, thanks to everyone who has taken the time to put their thoughts into words, both publicly and privately. A clearer picture is beginning to emerge. We'd like to try scaling things back (i.e., simplifying things) just a little bit first (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating)
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All, It seems at this point that the article rating feature -- intended to help -- is actually causing more harm than good to the community. It's difficult to gauge how much harm is being done when opinions are so varied, but it's clear that (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | New scans added
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Many new scans added: (URL) World Show Travel in Space ronald Ronald McDonald c84me (first page cleaned up) 1843 Space / Castle value pack 1806 Aquanaut Paravane 1804 Crossbow Boat 1802 {Tidy treasure} 8700 Expert builder motor 8408 Desert Ranger (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | ANNOUNCE: LEGO::RCX 1.00
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All I would like to announce the release of version 1.00 of LEGO::RCX.pm. This perl module allows you to communicate with your RCX. It has been developed and tested under Linux, though it most likely will run under other UNIX's. To find out more (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.lego.announce, lugnet.announce)
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| | the latest news
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Dear All: First, I'd like to thank Suzanne and Todd for creating the new lugnet.lego group and associated subgroups. I hope that this will make it easier for everyone to find and read communications between The LEGO Company and our enthusiasts -- (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.lego.announce, lugnet.announce, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general) !!
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| | Pixelego Update
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Folks, I have updated my Pixelego application. This application processes JPG and GIF images into 'LEGO murals' and provides a complete brick partitioning and inventory. It is written in Java1.1.7 It is downloadable from: (URL) latest version: - (...) (24 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | Simplified News-by-Mail signup (was: New newsgroups for LEGO Direct and the LEGO Company)
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(...) LEGO announcements group. Is awareness of the group still too low, or is the interface for mail subscriptions still too confusing? (It was designed for efficiently managing large numbers of groups simultaneously, but not for managing groups (...) (24 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce) !
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| | LEGO META-Search is up!
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I have put up a new webpage. It is LEGO-oriented-METAsearch site. This site searchs Pause Magazine, Brickset, Brickshelf, eBay(in progress/completed), Yahoo auctions, lugnet(parts/newsgroups :) and more. Once you fill the form, you'll find various (...) (24 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !
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| | "Cobba" Mecha
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For all you "Mech-nics": After seeing all the current interest in Mechas lately, I wanted to try my bricks at one - but something different. I came up with a six legged spider "cobbled" together from "useless" pieces such as: 2 Burps, a bunch of (...) (24 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce)
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| | Visit Kyle's Universe of Lego today!
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You KNOW YOU WANT to (URL) Universe of Lego is a wonderful, easy to navigate, site mostly on space lego. It is also home to Keppler Industries (my model repository), the leader in modern space technology. Some of you may recognize my address from (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce)
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| | New newsgroups for LEGO Direct and the LEGO Company
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Tonight there is a new newsgroup area on LUGNET dedicated to discussions about LEGO as a company and to being an "online communication-to-LEGO channel." It is starting out small, with the option to grow it as needed over the coming months/years. (A (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.lego, lugnet.lego.direct) !!
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| | Kyle's Universe of Lego (hifiki.tripod.com)
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(URL) Universe of Lego is a wonderful, easy to navigate, site mostly on space lego. It is also home to Keppler Industries (my model reposity), the leader in modern space technology. Some of you may recognize my address from the lego maniacs search (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LUGNET streaming news client in Java 2
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Hey all, I've just uploaded a streaming news client for LUGNET, which I've written in Java 2 (JDK 1.2). It doesn't use any external Java classes! :-, It's downloadable from: (URL) run it with JDK 1.2, type: java -jar table_streaming_news.jar The (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.announce)
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| | LBFR Updates
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Some more changes to the LBFR website for your perusal. They are: - New pictures of most apparatus (courtesy of Bram Lambrecht's highway.pov files) - Squad 22 added (should be of interest to sixby fans too :-) - DAT files removed, to be replaced by (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | Acronym FAQ V1.3
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Hi, This is the third update of the Acronym FAQ. If you're looking for an acronym mentioned on lugnet and can't find it here, try this: *Reading a bit of the context - often a spur-of-the-moment acronym will be mentioned in full version a few (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.faq) !!
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| | Brickfan is Open!
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Hi all, After many months of building stock and planning I am pleased to announce the opening of my new Lego sales Website, Brickfan. see it at (URL) has many sets from every theme. Brickfan has only rare, discontinued, or hard to find sets all (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.announce)
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| | MOTM April
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Just a quick note to announce the latest Model of the Month: Tom McDonald's Hangar 33. Take a look at: (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (25 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | New limited edition (custom) Castle sets!
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This is a formal announcement that the first in series of my own model kits is now for sale. It is a 600+ piece Castle (or even Pirate) theme Blacksmith Shop, which comes completely packaged and with full-color building instructions. Highlights of (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping) !!
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| | Announcing The Guild of Bricksmiths(tm)
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-- guild hq, dateline 31/03/2000 -- Today, on 31 March 2000, we, the undersigned, are pleased to publicly announce the formation and existence of -- THE GUILD OF BRICKSMITHS(tm) -- The Guild is a band of LEGO Fans who have become concerned at the (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade) !!
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| | east coast brickfest...
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...There will be many more announcements of this, but just in case u hadn't stumbled across it, I figured I'd make a lugnet.announcement of it! ...WAMALUG is attempting to put together a brickfest weekend of fun and bricks in Washington DC (nice and (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Brickshelf Gallery v. 0.7 (beta)
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Release 0.7 is now online. Version 0.7 is a halfway done hack of the version that was supposed to include the Edit function, so the Edit link is there but doesn't do much. The reason I released it is that I added the "set icon" feature that let's (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | New newsgroup for LEGOLAND Deutschland
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Christian Gemünden of Germany noted that LEGO has announced the official name for its fourth LEGOLAND theme park: (URL) following is an update to a message posted many months ago... --Todd (...) New: lugnet.legoland.deutschland (group): LEGOLAND® (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.legoland, lugnet.legoland.deutschland, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.loc.de.by.mue, lugnet.announce)
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| | New feature: Article rating
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LUGNET's article rating system is now running and hungry for input! As the community continues to grow, so does the challenge in keeping up. Some days it can be difficult to find exciting content among the hundreds of new messages. To aid browsing, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Its that time of month again...
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Its nearing that time when we all go to the polls and vote for our favorite Lego renderings. So mosey on down to ldraw.org and cast your vote - there's some high stakes this month! (URL) am going away for a week leaving tomorrow, but I'll try to get (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Target-exclusive Legoland sweepstakes
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While browsing the LEGO aisle at Target last night, I encountered a sweepstakes entry form and box on an endcap. The sweepstakes runs from March 19 thru April 1, is a Target exclusive, and the grand prize is a trip for 4 to Legoland California. (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.legoland.california)
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| | Lego in Boulder Daily Camera
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There was a quick mention of a line-following robot in the local newspaper, the Boulder Daily Camera. I saw the thread come up in .robotics so I thought I would post the article here for all to read. (URL) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New ldraw.org Feature Article
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Greetings I just added a new Feature Article to ldraw.org. Here Jonathan Knudsen, author of The Unofficial Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS Robots, explains his techniques for designing building instructions using LDraw, MLCad, L3P, and POV-Ray. Check it (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Notice of Price Changes in Factoring Service
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Please go here to read about some changes in pricing effective April Fool's day. (URL) that this is the "public name" of my factoring form. That should ensure that anyone who goes to it to do a request will see the notice. I am not saying what the (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.services, lugnet.announce)
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| | LDraw Add-On 2.1.2 Now Available
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[follow-ups set to lugnet.cad] The new version of LDraw Add-On (LDAO) is now available. This is version 2.1.2. There have been a number of changes since the last 'official' release, which was version 2.0.3. Including a number of major bug fixes. If (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | L3Lab Downloadable at ldraw.org
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Just a quick note to say I've uploaded the L3Lab files, so you can get it from ldraw.org now. (URL) Courtney ldraw.org Project Coordinator (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | New group lugnet.market.appraisal
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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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| | 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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| | About lugnet.admin.council
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First, my apologies for starting something which has led to a fair amount of confusion, dismay, and in some cases hurt feelings in the community. One person has even voluntarily left the community because of it. This calls for a brief "reset" and a (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.council, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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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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| | 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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| | .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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| | New groups lugnet.castle.org & lugnet.castle.org.cw
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New group/lists lugnet.castle.org and lugnet.castle.org.cw have just been created for the discussion of Castle organizations and, in particular, the recently emerging Castle World site. The .castle.org group is probably not likely to get much (if (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org, lugnet.castle.org.cw)
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