 | | Good read (Was: [faq FAQ How do I format an entry in the Lugnet FAQ?])
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(...) Okay, I've been reading aout numbers for a half hour now. Very interesting reading, at least for a geek such as I. :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: [faq FAQ How do I format an entry in the Lugnet FAQ?]
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(...) I _know_ there's a good smartass answer to this comment somewhere, but I can't think of it. Very tragic. (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Usable HTML tags (Was: 202 FAQ items posted to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Well, if you look at my FAQ submissions (and you'll have to save them as files and open in a web browser to see the formatting) you'll see that I put BLOCKQUOTE and P around all my URLs to make them stand out. Here are a couple examples of (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Yeah, I realized that. I just wrote it that way to help point out how abysmally incomprehensible it was before. A better approach would be to write the answer in a way that takes into account the fact that there is no automatic processing yet (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: [faq FAQ How do I format an entry in the Lugnet FAQ?]
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(...) It's interesting you said that. For my own purposes (and this is unrelated to LUGNET) I've developed a few simple ASCII tags that I use in my web page source files. My web pages (on (URL) ) are all typed in as plain ASCII text files. I use a (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: autoFAQpost /trains/~u.available_train_clubs.en.faq
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(...) Again, thanks! (...) It took me a moment to realize that this isn't a reference to (URL) :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: autoFAQpost /general/~u.howto_remove_bar_from_lego_bucket.en.faq
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(...) Thanks, Lar! Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) As of this writing: Two have sites. Others are forming. By unwritten convention, Lego Train Club is the tail end of each name. Pacific Northwest Lego Train Club or PNLTC: (URL) Midwest Lego Train Club or GMLTC: (URL) is trying to get a trains (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: autoFAQpost /general/~u.howto_remove_bar_from_lego_bucket.en.faq
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(...) a: Assuming you might want to reuse the bar someday, you need to preserve the tangs on the ends of the bucket pivots Get a table knife, the kind thats thick and wide bladed, but not sharp. A butterknife works too. CAREEFULLY.. slide the knife (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: [faq FAQ How do I format an entry in the Lugnet FAQ?]
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(...) There's a write-only directory called 'incoming' -- you could drop it there, then send me a note and I'll put in into the read-only directory called 'outgoing'. --Todd (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: [faq FAQ How do I format an entry in the Lugnet FAQ?]
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(...) Nope! That's the beauty of not being automated yet! :-, If I see a new article in this ng (or anywhere else in LUGNET, for tha tmatter) that's probably appropriate for the FAQ, I snag a copy of it and store it in my "LUGNET FAQ -- TODO" (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: [faq FAQ How do I format an entry in the Lugnet FAQ?]
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(...) That sounds good. I tend to update it from time to time; e.g. most recently adding all of Robert Munafo's entries and giving them filenames, fixing some headers, etc. For more than one submission, would you prefer e-mail or does LUGNET's FTP (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Wouldn't it be cool if there were something other than HTML that was actually readable as plaintext but which also looked great when converted to HTML? --Todd (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Good idea. The current 200+ messages aren't any fun to read. (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) What happens if I post random extremely unhelpful (counter-helpful, even) but properly-formatted messages to the newsgroup? Will I break things? :) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Usable HTML tags
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(...) indexer to filter out HTML tags. --Todd (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Usable HTML tags (Was: 202 FAQ items posted to lugnet.faq)
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(...) I think it doesn't hurt to allow <BLOCKQUOTE> -- but I'm having trouble imagning places where it would be useful. Heh heh, maybe in acutal block quotes? :-) "Four score an seven years ago . . . --Todd (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) If you're having trouble uploading it somewhere to distribute it, you could e-mail it to me and I could make it available for anonymous-ftp. --Todd (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) That's OK -- there doesn't necessarily have to be a strong correlation between the two, right? You've got an opinion and if it's logical (and not a drive-by joke), then it's welcome here no matter what you have or haven't contributed. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: The History of LEGO Plates - Part 1.
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(...) Coolness. Okay. :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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