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Robert Munafo wrote: <snip> Subject: I made a mistake in that last item but I can't figure out how to cancel a message. Topic-Level: 2 probably Location: ?? <P> How to cancel a message depends on how you submitted it. If you submitted it via the web (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: autoFAQpost /general/~u.can_i_use_lugnet_name_or_logo.en.faq
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(...) A boiled down answer (and I'd refer to the thread as authoritative) is that the word LUGNET should be followed by (tm) (or TM superscripted if you're using a font/display combination capable of same), and is OK to use if you're not implying (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: autoFAQpost /build/removing_print_from_lego.en.faq
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I can't take credit for any of the text shown here. But I can point out that it looks like the brake fluid idea has not been panning out, it damages the ABS, and that several people have reported success with various types of rubbing compounds or (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: autoFAQpost /market/auction/payment/04_howto_handle_international_currency.en.faq
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<p>An alternate answer to those given is to use a factor. Currently Larry Pieniazek provides this service, although he plans to go out of business when Lugnet does it instead.</p> <p>See <a href = (URL)Larry's Factoring Service Description</a> for (...) (25 years ago, 16-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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(...) Aha! OK, forgive me -- I assumed it was either an accident or some penchant for doing that sort of thing. Looking at your web pages (which I love, BTW!), of course, you don't have anything weird at all like that there, so that ruled out the (...) (25 years ago, 16-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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(...) Couldn't these theoretical tools be a little smarter? (25 years ago, 16-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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Okay, I've got a little more on the BLOCKQUOTE issue now. I had to load the entire newsgroup on my local machine and use my special MIRA tools to search it in order to figure this out. Here are the only non-Robert-Munafo FAQ answers that use (...) (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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(...) Accidental to you maybe, but it was no accident to me. I left space on either side of anchor text to make it more readable. I did that because right now everyone is limited to reading raw FAQ entries. (...) Yes. If the formatting and (...) (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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(...) Ahh, but it wasn't at all a smartass question. :-) Rather, it was 110% serious, tossed out as food for thought. There actually are things that fit the bill above. --Todd (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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(...) 1. there is accidental space around the 'foo' in <a href="xxx"> foo </a> which will cause the links to display improperly. Really it should say <a href="xxx">foo</a> for proper links. 2. All of the URLs are written out twice. Is that really (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | 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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| | Re: [faq FAQ How do I format an entry in the 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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| | Re: autoFAQpost /trains/~u.available_train_clubs.en.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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