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| | | I was looking up Shiri Dori today, partly because I was bored and partly because hers was a name that always used to pop up and doesn't now. Anyway.... one thing that I came across was RTL. My understanding was that it was basically a predecesor to (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | Re: RTL query —Rob Doucette
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| | | | | (...) rec.toys.lego is a UseNet newsgroup. If your ISP has a news server subscribe to the group, its still active. Or you can read along on Google: (URL) old DejaNews archives are now on Google as well. -Rob. (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | Re: RTL query —Thomas Main
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| | | | In lugnet.faq, Tim David wrote: <snip> (...) Tim, r.t.l (rec.toys.lego) is a USENET newsgroup. USENET is a text-based, bulletin-board type messaging system that predates the WWW by at least a decade. rec.toys.lego started on USENET in 1994 (its (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | Re: RTL query —Neb Okla
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| | | | "Thomas Main" <thomasmain@myrealbox.com> wrote in message news:HnKvCp.nnL@lugnet.com... (...) cut the (...) It may have cut the number of total discussions, but your personal judgement of "quality" can hardly be considered a "truth". One nice thing (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | Re: RTL query —David Koudys
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| | | | | In lugnet.faq, Neb Okla wrote: <snip> (...) THen again, if you look at the history of LUGNET and the postings of individuals, up until relatively recently not much has had to be enforced and no one was banned, and the noise-to-signal ratio has been (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | | Re: RTL query —Neb Okla
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| | | | | | "David Koudys" <dkoudys@redeemer.on.ca> wrote in message news:HoywH4.MLM@lugnet.com... (...) and no (...) opverwhelming (...) the (...) justice is, (...) It's still an authoritarian system. It's good to see that you feel that justice is served and (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | | | Re: RTL query —David Koudys
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| | | | | | In lugnet.faq, Neb Okla wrote: <snip> (...) Very true. That said, the history of LUGNET compared to the history of rtl where the 'quality' of 'LEGO related postings' (signal to noise ratio) is concerned, I'll take my chances with the admins here at (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | | | Re: RTL query —Neb Okla
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| | | | | | FUT: lugnet.off-topic.debate "David Koudys" <dkoudys@redeemer.on.ca> wrote in message news:Hoyz39.12rB@lugnet.com... (...) I'll The best way to solve newsgroup Signal to Noise problems is to set a good example and to drown out the noise with good (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: RTL query —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) That's *a* way. Calling it "best" is a value judgement. Another way is to exclude the noise if it can't behave itself. In my value system that's a lot better. (...) Which authoritarian organization is that? I'm not aware of one. The mere (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: RTL query —David Eaton
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| | | | | (...) I'm not sure that's quite fair. You're arguing a subtlety that's actually incorrect, unless your definition of "quality" is so vastly different that it hardly is worth calling it "quality" in public discussion. Unless one considers that only (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | Re: RTL query —Don Heyse
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| | | | (...) Perhaps the quality of RTL has gone up lately, now that there are less people there for the troublemakers to annoy. (...) Yes. It's good to have RTL out there as unconstrained competition. This forces the lugnet admins to be responsive to the (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | Re: RTL query —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but I suspect RTL is more of a "wasteland" now than it ever was, at least in my view, based on my (and I suspect a lot of other people's views as well). (I say suspect because I haven't carried out an (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.admin.general)
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