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| | | (...) Ok, read the article. I agree, its a good time to wait. However, this all depends on the completion timeframe for ldraw.org versus how the government is on its latest venture sticking its hand into free enterprise. (not so upset here though, (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: [ldraw.org] Domain Registration —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | (...) If money is the issue, then count me in for whatever it takes to make it happen right now rather than later. I don't think it pays to delay registration of something this important. --Todd (25 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: [ldraw.org] Domain Registration —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | | (...) Hrmmm, inherently cheap bastard that I am, I can't agree. This has been discussed for _months_. What's another couple of weeks? Wasn't there some mention at one point of taking the extra funds and buying software or development tools or (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: [ldraw.org] Domain Registration —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | (...) That's a good argument for waiting, but I don't think there's any way that it possibly hurts things to register it now. Acting as quickly as possible eliminates any possible shred of risk that some other organization or entrepreneur might (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: [ldraw.org] Domain Registration —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | | | (...) Oh, I agree with most of what you said, and ultimately it is your money. I guess I just have a problem with spending more money than necessary. We put in an order for office supplies from this place we have a contract with, a place that will (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: [ldraw.org] Domain Registration —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | (...) But no one else is going to snap up all of your supplier's paper from under your nose if you don't act immediately. And you're probably ordering a bit ahead, so that a delay in delivery of future supplies doesn't affect your ability to (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: [ldraw.org] Domain Registration —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | | (...) Well, because Todd volunteered generously to front the bill until donations can be collected, I sent a message on to Jacob to have his ISP register it to work with his server. I am the billing contact and will handle the money to pay InterNIC (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: [ldraw.org] Domain Registration —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | | | i have a font that might be of use. it is called charcoal. it might look good. it is the mac system font from mac os 8.0 but i ripped it off from the macs at my school (where i no longer go because i am now at uni) and converted it to windows TTF (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: [ldraw.org] Domain Registration —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | | (...) good. (...) macs at (...) I grabbed that macintosh theme and took a look at Charcoal. It is a nice font, thanks for suggesting it. I am working with a font called Fudd right now for the text, it is sans-serif and works beautifully for what I (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: [ldraw.org] Domain Registration —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | | i converted it from mac ttf to windows ttf using a program i found. (25 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: [ldraw.org] Domain Registration —Mike Stanley
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| | | | (...) I'm no economist, but I don't think that you could call what the govt is doing here "sticking its hand into free enterprise". Network Solutions has, at this moment, a legal monopoly, so there is NO free enterprise. This might be considered an (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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