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Matthew Miller wrote in message ... (...) The easiest way for this to occur wouldn't require any work on Todd's part at all. Someone in Europe could install a caching NNTP server (such as nntpcache or dnews) and set up lugnet as a parent server. The (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Todd -- are you open to the idea of creating an actual LUGnet news network? This would be good for people in far-flung places, and reduce _your_ load. I realize that it causes issues with centralized control, etc., but as long as you only (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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First of all - the newsgroups are really groovy :) Although I'm getting a slower connection now that America has woken up - I'm getting ~100-500 bytes/sec in Scotland. Is this just because my ISP connection is crappy or is it a side affect of being (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Crikey.. should be "Set of Gold-Embossed Lego encyclopedia's" for that price! It would be groovy if the smaller books were like those groovy playmobil books with the figures - they were cute :) Richard (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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I went to a garage sale recently and as usual looked to see if there was any Lego. None, but at the end of the driveway I noticed a row of mailboxes, one of which had "LEGO" stuck on the front in those awful gold/black postbox letters. I am sure (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Q:Window and door terminology
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As a fairly new LEGO maniac, I am wondering what the proper terminology is for windows and doors. I understand standard bricks, i.e 2x4x1 (If just 2x4, the third value is understood) but I am unsure as to door and window descriptions. It looks like (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: having problems with lugnet.general
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(...) The group lugnet.general has one thing different from all other groups here: when the groups were all renamed to be under the lugnet.* hierarchy late last week, this group stuck around but has a different contents. The renaming was: (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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won't download new messages, won't mark as read old ones. Is there a problem my end? All other newsgroups, Lugnet & others, are working fine. Or is it just another dreadful Outlook express problem? -- ___...___ richard.dee@nospam.virgin.net remove (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Maybe, but the added peace of mind that would come with knowing someone was committed enough to sign up and pay a small fee to be part of this online community would be worth it for me, as an auctioneer, although I admit it would tend to (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I personally support the concept of requiring membership of all participants in the automagic web-based auctions. But then, if I were _holding_ an auction, I might feel differently.... (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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Well, I'm testing out some things on my new linux box at work. It looks like I can read news with tin -r on this machine, which is cool. Now I need to see if I can post. Already looks like the lines are too long, but I can fix that in the tinrc, I (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Two answers: 1) With regard to auctions run in the lunget.market.auction newsgroup: Holding an auction -- yes -- pretty much anything goes. Bidding -- yes -- subject to auctioneers' individual approvals, of course. 2) With regard to automagic (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) KL membership. (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: www.lugnet.com
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(...) Todd -- will auctions hosted on LUGnet be open to non-members? (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, that will depend mostly on snail mail (of all things :-) The houses -- and all things that interact with the website where it automagically knows who you are via stored identity -- for advanced interactive/configurable stuff -- are (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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Who get's to be the first house? KL (...) (26 years ago, 2-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Too cool to keep to myself
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Is it still together, or are they going to have to use your pictures? If it's still together, we should put it in the museum of modern art. KL (...) (26 years ago, 2-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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Ed, you didn't just make a castle, you made a "cahstle". Kudos to you! (...) (26 years ago, 2-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Negative, though I do have the "wings" from the Ninja hang-glider. (When did Feudal Japan ever use these??????) I have tried using axle/connector combination for the frame of paper- based sales, but had given up by that point (again) in order (...) (26 years ago, 2-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Question: #3026 bulk bucket piece count?
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Here is the piece count for 3025, very kindly counted out by Todd Lehman, many moons ago......... 3025 Limited Edition Silver Bucket Silver White Black Red Yellow Green Blue TOTAL> 1x1 20 10 20 20 6 20 96 1x2 30 15 30 30 14 30 149 1x3 6 4 6 6 2 6 30 (...) (26 years ago, 2-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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