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The sphinx adventurers set has a ramp and a depression, which would work for a lake. Cover it with blue plates (the depression) and stick a minifig torso and head on it for simulated wading......... Scott wrote in message ... (...) at (...) new (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yeah, but with a small news network, delays would be minimal -- nothing like getting from one side of Usenet to the other. (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Right, but as it is Todd has some little bit of control -- and can log -- who posts and reads. And since this _is_ his project, I assume he wants to keep that. (Certainly helps with the spam problem.) Otherwise, why not export lugnet.* to all (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yuck. That takes away one of my favorite things about news here. Instant access to other people's posts. I understand the concern about one location, etc, that you have, but I'm just not that worried about it. Todd and Suz are young, appear to (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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Oook - it seems to be fairly nippy again now - it's probably best to let it settle for a little while before making judgements *blush*. At best it's just a teensy tad slower than my internal news server, and at worst.. well - I should be working (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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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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| | Re: upcoming books from Lego
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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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