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What is happening is the virus is picking an address you'd trust, it's not really coming from lugnet. I have to keep trying to explain this at work to the users when it happens :) (at least with some of the current virii that are out there right (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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I have recieved two copies of the new netsky.b virus: From: po@lugnet.com Subject: unknown and From: 4w@lugnet.com Subject: read it immediately Both with a very small zipped viral attachment. (22 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Question about BFPDX
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Did everyone go home happy? (22 years ago, 18-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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In lugnet.org, Kelly McKiernan wrote: [snip the rest of what Kelly said] (...) As Jake explained LEGOfan (the concept, the reasons for it) to me, I think its a great idea. It coincides with much of what the WorldLUG concept posted, so I'm encouraged (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general) !
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| | The Green Dragon returns in under 36 hours
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I've finally gone and Ldrawn my Green Dragon, Vildegraas. This is the last of the four dragons to be digitally built. Click on the image for a larger picture. (URL) And I did it in under 36 hours (that's from start to finish, not total work hours). (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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(...) I'll provide a little of the most requested info. Please email me if I may be of further assistance. I'm a bit of a collector of vintage info. (...) These were in common use during the 1960's. I'm not sure of the timeline for these bricks. The (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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OK. Calm down and check out the new colours and how they combine with the old colours. They look great! Check out: (2 URLs) don't think many people would dispute the new greys look much better in these combinations. On the other hand... (URL) could (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It would be the third one, no logo nor part number on bottom-side. (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I've got one of those large gray bricks (one of the bottom two) from about 1976 or 1977, presumably from set 111: (URL) was my first big set (I assume--box and all paperwork disappeared long ago). Bruce (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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One of these Ray? (URL) Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...net.com]On Behalf Of Ray Sanders Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 4:53 PM To: lugnet.general@lugnet.com Subject: info on some old bricks ? Yesterday I picked (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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Yesterday I picked up a bucket of bricks from a thrift store ... (this is usually how these stories begin) and several of the bricks in there caught my eye. Any information would be appreciated. o Two large 10 x 20 lt-gray bricks. Studs on top say (...) (22 years ago, 17-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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(...) Not in direct response to your post, Anthony, but as general info: LUGNET also has access to many of the latest pics of newest sets, but I've chosen not to pursue getting them into our database in a hurry. This is for a number of reasons, (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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(...) Hmmm. This part could be largely handled via existing standards -- each site could spit out an RDF feed. RDF isn't perfect, but I think it'd do. And a particularly cool thing about sites doing this is that one could use any of the zillions of (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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hey Everyone, my first post to LUGNET, go easy on me ;) anyway, i saw a thread on X pods the other day, but have since lost it... I've bought some X pods from Argos (catalog shop) and have been thinking about uses for the pods, not just in regular (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I have to agree with you Jojo. Gray is the one color I will never have enough of. Now it is impossible to ever purchase anything but the neon pink tinted gray. I am very concerned that when the Bionicle fad dies (as all fads do) the LEGO (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) Well, if it comes down to it, there's a reason the Lugnet groups are all in a lugnet hierarchy. But as you may have gathered from my other posts, I'm strongly in favor of not duplicating discussion forums. (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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Elroy & All, (...) There have been a lot of good suggestions here already, here is how I do it. (URL) sort via size, and then number. I have an index for quick finding. I am buying so many multiples of sets now, that I file 1 copy, and then store (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage, lugnet.general)
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(...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage, lugnet.general)
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(...) I was thinking more of talking about architecture, construction etc. I usually makes drawings and calculations before building, and that kind of work seem to be very interesting for some, espceially when explaining. I have noticed amezed (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm a professional Software Engineer with 3 years of PHP and mysql experience, were I to log in and discover poorly commented, badly structured, inefficent code I don't think I'd laugh, I think I'd fix it. As a community, I think you are (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: hearts and minds (Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub
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(...) personal feelings haven't changed: (URL) those not familiar with that post, it led to this one: (URL) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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(...) LOL! Yup, (swapping in 'man' for 'woman' above) that's what I told my (now) husband! :-D *blush* -Suz (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 2004 American International Toy Fair Pictures on FBTB
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(...) There is a press release on lego.com that has a comparison pic. (...) the box art was an early mockup. the blue jeep is what you'll actually get. (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net [...]
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(...) A user-configurable dynamic newspage. yeah, that'd be super-neat. Such a thing is why I'd never want to work on a printed magazine for LUGs. Scripts and the web can produce a publication that's way more efficient, up-to-the-minute, adaptable (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: How do you store your instructions?
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(...) I store mine in lever arch files with plastic sleves inside them. (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage, lugnet.general)
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(...) I store all of mine in a steel filing cabinet using the expandable hanging file folders and sorted by theme. The instructions stay wrinkle free, there's low humidity and no exposure to sunlight. Dawn (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: How do you store your instructions?
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(...) well there's allways the big green steel box sometimes known as a garbage dumpster.=) actuly some use binders with plastic sleaves and others just use a storage bins that slide under a bed. ondrew (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage, lugnet.general)
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| | How do you store your instructions?
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My collection has gotten to the point where tossing the instructions from all the sets into a cardboard box just isn't working any more. There is a lot of information about how to store bricks, but not much on the subject of instructions. So, does (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage, lugnet.general)
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My fifth Fest was a blast. Great to see old friends and meet new people. Thanks to everynone for a great weekend in Portland. I took mostly Moonbase and people related pics. Check them out: (URL) There was a ton of other amazing stuff that I did not (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.scibrick, lugnet.space, FTX) !!
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Not earth shattering... but good news anyway: (URL) especially like the quote from Soren Torp Laursen (president, LEGO Americas): "CLIKITS is a perfect example of how we can develop the core LEGO brand value without stretching so far that consumers (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, 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 saw someone else raise this point as well, and I don't recall reading a response so I thought I would jump in to the fray. It's quite simple. If someone writes bad code, it doesn't get incorporated in to the system. Why should it? It's also (...) (22 years ago, 17-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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(...) I tend to think that the announcement was made a little prematurely. There would have less pointless speculation and argument if they'd waited until they actually had something to show, even if it were just a mocked up homepage. As it is the (...) (22 years ago, 16-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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(...) Icky. What about when amatures come in and write code that is... laughable... at best. Then you have a website made of mangled, chaotic code that definetly does not help the community at all. Poor commenting, bad structure, inefficent (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Community run (was Re: LEGOFan.net...)
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(...) This is not completely true. Classic Castle is run by a group of administrators (each with an equal vote) not by one individual. Yes, we have a webmaster. If he left, another admin could step into that position. Our funding is by one (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.general) !
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(...) what EuroBricks is about: (URL) it as a kind of knowledge center platform where newer LUG's can profit and share the experience from the longer established LUG's, for instance in the field of participating with events. It's an initiative by (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) Which part of the community, specifically? General LEGO fans? Webmasters of other LEGO-related fan web sites? (...) Why? Although I have been vocal in my opinion that Lugnet is not the perfect LEGO hub site, since it deals with a subset of (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general) !
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| | Re: 2004 American International Toy Fair Pictures on FBTB
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(...) Indeed. Nothin' wrong with gigantic glow in the dark teeth. (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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[added .castle] (...) And in minifig scale too. Ugh, those swords and armor are dorky-lookin'. I was looking forward to buying a copy or two of 8777 and 8778 based on the Classic-Castle preview pictures. But now, um, no thanks. The shields are kinda (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) Nor has BZPower been contacted. I firmly believe success can only be achieved by LEGOFan working with owners of sites who will be directly affected by LEGOFan. Early in the process. (...) Thank you for putting it so concisely. I would've spent (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Community run (was Re: LEGOFan.net...)
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(...) that order in a domain name is not on its face a trademark violation or misuse nor something the Lego company has control over. (Some big-money decisions in the other direction notwithstanding.) The only reason people should avoid l-e-g-o (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 2004 American International Toy Fair Pictures on FBTB
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"Paul S. D'Urbano" <durbano@optonline.net> wrote in message news:Ht5Fop.11It@lugnet.com... (...) Duplo, (...) I'm (...) sure Does anybody have some pictures that shows comparision between Duplo, Quatro and Creator brick size? (...) Nice pictures, (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) OK, this looks to be a new part ? (URL) the color... milky white... glow-in-the-dark perhaps ? Most interesting. Ray (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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(URL) COOL MECHA That's something to look forward too, after all the mediocre regular sets. Designer is revolutionizing lego. I've got something to buy other than occassional star wars sets! Ry out (URL) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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Hello! (...) Huh? Never heard about this before. (...) That I am aware of :) Though the 1000steine-Land in Berlin has not been the first event. But that's a different story. (...) In my case it's a relationship over 25 years, if I count Duplo in ;) (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.general, FTX) !
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) That's surprising. IMHO a lot of detail and wishlist with the project, what can be done? What do we want done? etc. could have been done before this whole announcement of non-info. (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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[ XFUT lugnet.org ] (...) What did you expect with nine people in the current working group and not much carved in stone yet? (...) That's not good. I would at least have hoped that each of us were consistent in our replies, even if the group as a (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general)
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(...) Lol, that's great. I'm going to try that. I'll say that I'm an artist (pronounced ahrtieest). "What kind of artwork do you do?" "Well, some paintings, some drawings, sculptures and models." (22 years ago, 3-Dec-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Not really, not for me at least. It seems like there are a few different versions of what this site is going to be running around out there - and it seems that each version is based on what the persom being told wants to hear. I am sorry, (...) (22 years ago, 16-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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(...) Hmm, I guess it was BZPower that didn't feel welcome because of the bionicle bashing. Still with CC, and probably FBTB, LUGNET didn't meet your needs so you made your own. Just as good of a reason. And all the more reason I see LegoFan, if (...) (22 years ago, 16-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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In lugnet.general, Steve Runnels wrote: much snippage (...) I cant speak for FBTB, but this isn't true for Classic-Castle. We felt perfectly welcome at Lugnet. The group of fans starting CC thought that a new website could meet needs that .castle (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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Here's a Lugnet exclusive from me. It's nothing exciting, but hey, I thought it'd be a change of pace to post it to Lugnet and not C-C. The blueprints of my next castle MOC: (URL) --Anthony (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: 2004 American International Toy Fair Pictures on FBTB
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(...) Some very cool sets. I'm still looking through them, but so far I really like what I see. The new Creator Tub looks like it has some colors I don't have many of; I look forward to seeing them in stores. The claw/tieth pieces in 4507 remind me (...) (22 years ago, 16-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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(...) I've managed to get attention, for sure. Unforunently people don't seem to be reading past the controversy at all. So I've dug myself a hole, as usual. Maybe I'm too used to saying derogatory things to friends and on the internet, which btw (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It was, wasn't it? I'm so proud I've made it down to Anthony's level. Oh wait, I forgot. Jabbin at someone's name is worse than jabbin at their ideas. So I guess I'm lower than him afterall. Oh darn. [Insert sarcastic face here, since people (...) (22 years ago, 16-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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(...) Sorry, but I've gotta agree with Tamy-that was totally uncalled for. I don't often make mention of such things, but it seems like all day you've been posting really combative things ("just the ignorant statement I was waiting for!" in response (...) (22 years ago, 16-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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(...) I have to agree with Tamy. Anthony may be too blunt now and then, but think your reaction was inappropriate. Please check out classic-castle.com You will notice that the latest news for each section is featured on the main page, much like (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.general) !!
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(...) Just what "attitude" is that? The only thing negative I said was the "Assthony" crack. And that's because his entire post was a sarcastic, excuse my french, ASSHOLE remark. Oh ok thanks, I have a link now, WOOHOO! Give me a break, that's (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well now, that was pretty low and uncalled for Steve! I guess that I should consider us lucky that you are too lazy to come to Clssic-Castle on your own, as we really don't need such childish behavior. Troy (22 years ago, 16-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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-----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...net.com]On Behalf Of Steve Runnels Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 5:24 PM To: lugnet.general@lugnet.com Subject: Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all (...) (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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(...) 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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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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(...) 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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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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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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(...) 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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(...) Also you would keep the ability to atach bottles to the studs, something not possible when using the headlight bricks. I think I will try to build the two solutions for real (maybe even a combination of both), to see how practicly feasable (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) What major enhancement was that? -Suz (22 years ago, 14-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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(...) Well said Dave K. Well said... I might also add that I would rather NOT see LEGO involved in any central website for this community. This is because LEGO would thn have some power over content, which can't be a good thing because they already (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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(...) I totally agree and I highlighted your other post about trimming the groups. Terry (22 years ago, 14-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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(...) I had not realize that Todd himself approved of such a situation. That changes everything from my point of vue. I no longer see it the way I did. However, some people have brought the argument that WorldLUG aims to do a similar thing. Maybe (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Brickshelf Down?
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(...) Ok, Thanks Dan -w (22 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Brickshelf Down?
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(...) Hey, I haven't been able to access the site today, but I did last night. At the top of the site it said "Some parts of the site not properly working" or something like that. I guess none of the site is working now:( Does anyone have any Idea (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Brickshelf Down?
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(...) Kevin's been migrating BS to some new servers - I assume this is still part of the process. It was working at the new location for a bit last night. Dan (22 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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I haven't been able to access Brickshelf for about 2 days. Anyone else having the same problem? It looks like it's down. (I didn't know if there was a message or not... you know, LEGOFan dominating everywhere... :P ) -Evil Wayne (22 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | 1 Question: assurances & limitations [Re: LEGOFan.net - central community... ]
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(...) Jake can you clarify this? I expect ‘support’ and use of the word “lego” in the url has been given subject to assurances or limitations with regard the content of the site. If possible, I’d be interested to know what those assurances or (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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Hello! (...) Well, most AFOLs already have been LEGO fans as kids and - after a periode of neglecting the brick, the so called 'dark ages' - found back to their old love. That means: For the purpose of growing hard core LEGO fans it's necassary to (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains) !
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| | Re: A wine rack I made today
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(...) Ooh! I think I got it! There's a (URL) new piece> that's coming out this year. It's a 1x1 brick with studs on two sides. If you take a plate and a bunch of these new bricks and place them with alternating orientation, you can attach tiles to (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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[ followup-to .publish.html, since this isn't generally interesting. :) ] (...) And that is indeed why I'm confused. I was referring to the phpBB on Classic-castle in the paragraph you quoted. Like all such BB forums, it basically has a big monotone (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish.html)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) You seem confused - I was refering to Lugnet's visual appearance. (...) Yup, confused. Sorry if I wasn't clear along the way. I meant Lugnet was a step up visually from r.t.l., as newer boards are a step up visually from Lugnet. (...) (...) (22 years ago, 13-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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(...) Yup, them's the ones. (...) Yeah, but it's neat for them to show up right next to everyone's posts. Or are people doing that in their sigs? I guess I hadn't really noticed since I read/post via NNTP 97% of the time because I *do* like text (...) (22 years ago, 13-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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In lugnet.general, Matthew Miller wrote: SNIP (...) I don't like the one-post-under-the-o...n-one-page bulletin boards if that's what you're talking about-they are AWEFUL. LUGnet posting/thread setup is FAR superior in the fact that it is FAR more (...) (22 years ago, 13-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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(...) Hey, if you like boring, that's fine with me. To each his own, and all. (...) So, basically, you think BB style forums will die out? Or do you mean that both BB and Lugnet will be replaced by the futuristic VR chatrooms I mentioned? (...) But (...) (22 years ago, 13-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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(...) why not just add a few new links/rearranging the front/homepage of LUGnet to make the central portal for the community? Jeff (22 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to 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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(...) I'm secretly hoping these LEGOfan.net guys come up with a better system! I'm already looking to upgrade the chat system at CC, so it wouldn't be a problem for me to upgrade the Forums as well. Assuming that something BETTER then what we have (...) (22 years ago, 12-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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(...) And like I said, I disagree (but at least we agree on the boring part). :-) (...) What part of "boring" didn't you parse? :-) I shall be more forceful in my comparison, Maximum Borosity. (all those who never saw the phrase "maximum verbosity" (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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