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(...) I would have expected your browser to launch a general purpose NNTP client such as Gnus, Pan, Thunderbird or Outlook. (...) If the only newsgroups you read are those on Lugnet, then the only benefit to using a general purpose NNTP client would (...) (14 years ago, 31-Oct-10, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I've never used the NNTP. When I click on it, I see the same messages that I see on LUGNET through a browser (including ones I've posted [through a browser interface]). Is there any kind of advantage to using the NNTP instead of the web (...) (14 years ago, 31-Oct-10, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Does your username and password also work for a NNTP connection to Lugnet? (That would be new - but very helpful - to me.) Or are you talking about the web interface? Play well, Jacob (14 years ago, 30-Oct-10, to lugnet.general)
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(...) As of just a few days ago, I've been a LUGNET member for 10 years. In that time I've posted hundreds of messages, and I've never once had to use any kind of "authentication email." I'm not sure what you're doing wrong to get something like (...) (14 years ago, 30-Oct-10, to lugnet.general)
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(...) There's no f*#$ing reason for authentication emails. NNTP has a good and fine password authentication mechanism built in. Jacob (14 years ago, 29-Oct-10, to lugnet.general)
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(...) My main sticking point with NNTP is the authentication emails. They are annoying, very annoying but unavoidable due to the inherent spoofing problems with NNTP. -Orion (14 years ago, 29-Oct-10, to lugnet.general)
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(...) But that doesn't have an NNTP port, does it? Or email digests? I find reading lugnet through a news reader (Outlook Express, XanaNews, whatever) is a much better experience than trying to read EuroBricks, for example. There's a much better (...) (14 years ago, 28-Oct-10, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm a strong opponent of the non-threaded BB style. (...) Agreed. (...) Thanks but I have the ability to add this to the site so it would be located at LDraw.org. -Orion (14 years ago, 28-Oct-10, to lugnet.general)
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| | Legomaster - Recent Events - Fall 2010
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Hey all, I just did a show at the NJ Science and Engineering Festival in Clifton, NJ. What a great event! (URL) 1 (2 URLs) Lapse I also did a show by town square in Newport where I live. (URL) ...a few days later I did a show in Newport Mall. It was (...) (14 years ago, 28-Oct-10, to lugnet.events, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.nj)
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| | Re: The passing of Dan Jezek, BrickLink Founder
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This is sad news. I will send condolences to his family. RIP, Dan. -Suzanne Rich Eaton (14 years ago, 27-Oct-10, to lugnet.general)
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