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(...) Yeah, thanks, Assthony. The point I was trying to make is that I'm not a castle fan in general. I'm NOT going to root through the entire site to find the *few* things I find interesting. Now if you wanted to give me some links to the best (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | 2004 American International Toy Fair Pictures on FBTB
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For those who aren't aware, FBTB is covering the Toy Fair in New York and pictures of new 2004 sets are starting to appear there. So far there are Duplo, Quatro, Dora, Creator, Designer (mecha!), and Technic pictures on there. I'm expecting Star (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2004, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.technic, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.duplo, lugnet.quatro, lugnet.harrypotter) !
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) So you won't visit Classic-Castle unless another site links to it? Ok. (URL) you go. Now you don't even have to wait till LEGOFan.net is launched. I believe there is also a link to this castle site in the castle section of Lugnet. --Anthony (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Community run (was Re: LEGOFan.net...)
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(...) We already discussed most of this with Jake, and agreed we would have to have no strings attached. The LEGO company would be a welcome visitor and participant in the site, but they will NOT run it, or dictate how the site should be run. I (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.general) !!
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) Oh, I understand this. That's part of the "lot of work" that would be involved. How exactly do you implement something like this to the other sites satisfaction? *I* don't know exactly. Yet at the same time I can't help but think this would (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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(...) 1) That the site software will be published under an Open Source license. 2) That the content (or at least as much as possible of it) will be available as a whole under an Open Source license. 3) Probably also that we will set up a formal (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) It is. (...) As little as possible. We want to make the content accessible in as many different ways as possible, but preferably using existing protocols like NNTP, SMTP and NNTP. (...) You sound like a Jacob clone. :-) But it could be fun to (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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[ XFUT lugnet.org ] (...) Once there is something to show, it should of course be announced widely to the online LEGO fan community. But this was (at least from my point of view) more thought as a follow-up to the WorldLUG discussion than a full (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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[ XFUT lugnet.org ] (...) It will not happen. We will still have to have a competent group of system administrators checking if new modules are up to par, before they can go into the central LEGOFan.net site. But if a developer creates a really cool (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) I think any standards compliant browser should work for the website, oh, and IE. We do want to implement an NNTP interface as well as an SMTP, for as much content as possible. My personal philosophy is that javascript can be used only to (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general) !
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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In lugnet.general, Steve Runnels wrote: (snip) (...) Excuse my ignorance, but what about those websites, like FBTB and Classic-Castle, that want their visitors to physically visit their forums to see the latest threads so that they could also visit (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) That sounds like mostly server-side stuff. Have you figured out yet what you are going to require from clients (users)? The reason I ask is that I'm an old-fashioned soul, and am unlikely to use discussion groups that are not NNTP-reachable, (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: 1 Question: assurances & limitations [Re: LEGOFan.net - central community... ]
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(...) Actually not. What we _have_ discussed is to make it possible for parents to decide that some classes of content is unsuitable for their children, and for users of the site to decide some age limits for access to content/discussion groups they (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) Dan will start throwing heavy stuff across the Atlantic, if I claim it is vapor-ware at the moment, but it is at least not in a usable state yet. Basically (and possibly not quite correctly) it is a content management system with access (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | hearts and minds (Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.)
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(...) All that is fine & well, but: a) why can’t LUGNET perform that role? b) I’m concerned about the Lego Group’s involvement; it is still not clear what they expect for their ‘13 pieces of silver’? ;) If Jake wants to capture the “hearts and (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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| | BrickFest PDX 2004 pictures: Days 1 and 2
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Hi everybody, The convention is now 2/3 of the way through, and we have some pictures on the BrickFest PDX 2004 web site: (URL) are only a few of the incredible MOCs on display, in addition to pictures of sessions and speeches, not to mention some (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.general) !
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) Finally! Someone made the completely ignorant statement I was waiting for! w00t! Ok, I'll put my piece in here I guess. I think this whole idea is a good one, but it's going to take a LOT of work and participation from the other sites. What (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego) !
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) Finally! I've been waiting forever for some sort of international, LEGO users group network! Oh wait. There is one. And I'm using it right now. Bryan (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego) !!
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| | Re: A wine rack I made today
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It's nice to see such fruitfull and inspiring feedback. (...) My LDraw mockup has been modeled with headlight bricks, based on their common availability, and because I prefered to point the smooth top surface of the tiles 1x2 all upwards in the same (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: A wine rack I made today
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(...) That's true, but your version shouldn't require headlight bricks, should it? (...) I did a quicky test using a 1x1 with four studs just to see if a tile will fit between the two bricks, and it does work. Since you'd be using 1x1 bricks to hold (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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