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Sooo...ooo, here’s a question for any independent LEGO groups out there…Does anybody know of an independent LEGO group situated in Ontario CANADA, preferably in Toronto??? I know of the NELUG (NewEngland Lego Users Group) and I’ve seen the Vancouver (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
 
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Hi Richard! for future reference, it's better to start a new thread instead of replying to a current one (if you're not replying to it, that is). (...) I haven't heard of one. (...) Yep, right here on lugnet: (URL) like there's even an event planned (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
 
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(...) Urg. It may not be obvious to those of you viewing this message with MS Windows, but the above message isn't ascii text (or ISO 8859-1 Latin-1, either -- even though the header claims it is!). It's Microsoft's non-standard [1] character set. (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.general)
 
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(...) Any assistance will be greatly appreciated, and the first ten people to assist me receives a cookie in the mail!!! (...) Thanks Shiri, your the best!!! The reason why I posted this message in lugnet.castle is because this is my LEGO genre of (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
 
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(...) Hit him up for double-stuffed Oreos! :-) (25 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
 
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(...) ..... Or just didn't know!!! (option 3). (...) Don't eat too many, and go heaving your cookies, Shiri!! Hey! How come no one ever offered me free food? :-) On a diet anyway, Gary Istok P.S. And speaking of Canada..... on a clear day Canada (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
 
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(...) Hey, no problem. Like Gary mentioned, not everyone might know the answers. And I still remember what it was like to be a newbie, most people here forget quickly... while I have good memory... :-) (...) Oh I will. ;-) Hey, wait, what's that big (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
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(...) Hmmmm. I agree that it's pretty horrendous for plaintext, but I think that so-called "smart quotes" are a pretty great thing for HTML (as long as the correct standard character entities are output, of course! :) when done properly. What (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.general)
 
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do we need a admin.geek group? (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.general)
 
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(...) My understanding is that the ISO Latin 1 8-bit character set reserves those characters (among others) for control codes. I can't actually check, because the standard isn't available online (paper version costs about 56 CHF....). But this is (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.general)
 
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PS: if my tone seems annoyed or even antagonistic in the past few messages, it's not at anyone here -- it's at Microsoft. I try to avoid MS-bashing as much as I can, but this is blatently evil [1]. It's like the Kerberos thing, but arguably worse -- (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.general)

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