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Hi Todd, When will Lugnet be having it's 1 year newsgroups anniversary? I figure it should be around Sept or Oct. Are you going to do anything special? Thanks, Adam (25 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hmm, the actual anniversary is kind of fuzzy, since there were several "beginnings"...here's a bit of history: 1. There was some preliminary research and testing on August 9 with a mock-up newsserver. That was just testing, and it was wiped (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd Lehman wrote: <snipped> (...) Are we going to have an online party??? I'll join! (25 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: <snip> (...) Does that make me the last beta tester? My first post was (URL) Are you going to do anything special? (...) Cool! I'll bring the über-garlic spamcake paté and a case of Stoli ;-) -Tom McD. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Aug-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) be a decoy, sir. Several of the escape pods have been jett--- Oops...wait...that's the wrong tape. Sorry. OK, here we go: According to the log, there were 167 messages between lugnet.announce:28 and lugnet.announce:29 ... lugnet.announce:28 (...) (25 years ago, 11-Aug-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Woo-hoo! Party at Todd's place! Everyone bring a beer mug (made only out of LEGO)! I'll show up early to help you plasticwrap the furniture. J (25 years ago, 12-Aug-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi Todd, Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:37b0836e.885758...net.com... (...) (snip) (...) I think that's a great idea! A week long celebration! I can definitely go for that. Thanks, Adam (25 years ago, 12-Aug-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) it (...) Excellent idea. That sounds like a suggestion from someone who's done that before. :-) I recommend removing any/all plants from the main party area. [f-up set to .off-topic.fun] -Tom McD. when replying, spamcake is a contributing (...) (25 years ago, 12-Aug-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Lampshades *may* be made from Pirate sails sewn together instead of being built from <ouch> bricks. John "I love you, man" Neal (...) (25 years ago, 12-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Aha -- found it! Here's that message: (URL) 'Date' header says "4 Oct 1998 00:00:00 GMT", which is obviously wrong, but there's another header which says "04 Oct 1998 17:13:50 CDT", which sounds right on. So if my TZ math is correct, this (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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<snipage> (...) First off Happy anniversary to LUGNET and here are to many many more!!! Unfortunatly I have not been here from the begining. I would say that I have been on LUGNET for approx. 6 months or so. As far as expectations I don't think I (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) === (...) with (...) I'd say that Lugnet has been a smashing success. There have been a few bumps since I started participating this spring, but all in all it's a significant resource. The only hope in the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well, as you may have noticed, I've become a convert, despite my initial misgivings. [1] I appreciate your commitment to doing things the Right Way. This has become a really great place -- and furthermore, really feels like a _place_, which is (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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I can very honestly say that my life wouldn't be the same without LUGNET. I'm glad and proud to be part of this community. Thanks Todd, Suz and all the other people that make this place so great. Happy Anniversary! Mario (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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Well I've not been here for the whole year, but I do think that the whole community is so strong that it really is difficult to believe to is only one year old. I'm sure this reflects both the hard work Todd has put into the project and the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) LUGnet is a great community, and I've throughly enjoyed spending time here. It's been really neat watching it grow, and evolve. Thanks, Todd & Suzanne! James (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Happy birthday, LUGNET! You are far more coherent than I was at one year old! :-, (...) It has far exceeded my expectations. Accessing RTL was hard for me -- our news server at work wouldn't send messages I posted to any other news server. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Happy Anniversary! LUGNET is a wonderful community. I had reservations at first, because LUGNET news (so to speak) would be a drain on RTL. That is what has happened, and I miss the RTL'ers who haven't come over to LUGNET. OTOH, some neat and (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yeah, I was wondering about that myself. Gimme a little bit, and I'll post some statistics. (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think LUGNET is one of the best sites on the web! The site concentrates on a specific topic, is easy to navigate, and it contains lots and lots of information and links to relevant places. The three-gates-access is excelent, everybody can (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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Ok, this is really rough because my comprehension of gnuplot is fairly low, but I thought y'all might be interested in looking anyway. <URL:(URL) is a graph of number of posts per week to rec.toys.lego for as long back as Deja News can remember. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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Hooray for Lugnet! Happy Anniversary and thanks for all the hard work! John Matthews Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:FJ1zvG.Gps@lugnet.com... (...) figure (...) wrong, (...) ===...=== == (...) CDT) (...) visitors. (...) with (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Mind?--certainly not! :-) (...) Trends noted in-head, yes; on paper/graph no... Would love to see anything you come up with. --Todd (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Todd, I can't thank Suzanne and yourself enough for all the effort that must have gone into the creation of this site. Lugnet is a wonderful resource. It meets all my current LEGO needs. I have been a Lugnet user for about ten months now. I (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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I am extremely delighted to have been a part of this grand experiment since before the beginning. What has been realised so far is amazing but pales in comparision to what I hope is yet to come. Happy first public anniversary and many happy returns! (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) [snipped way-cool graph] Very interesting. I hadn't thought of "draining" in terms of number of messages, I was thinking in terms of signal-to-noise. Which is a bit harder to graph. But the anecdotal evidence seems to suggest LUGNET is having (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Todd & Suzanne, Congrats on your first anniversary! So much has taken place in the past year. It's amazing how much LUGNET has evolved in just 12 months. I have the feeling that for the 2nd anniversary, it'll be even more spectacular. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yeah, number-of-messages seemed like the easiest to graph. I'm also getting data on number of messages containing "auction|sale", "mindstorms", or "star wars", with that sort of in mind. Signal is hard to describe simply. (...) Hmmm, (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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[ (X)FUT lugnet.off-topic.geek and lugnet.admin.general ] Steve: [...] (...) Few or many messages per thread? - few messages per thread could mean - quick correct answers - nobody cares to discuss anything - many messages per thread could mean - (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Good points. It can be argued that massive flame-war threads *are* indicative of the level of community. If only because people care enough to get into long-winded pointless debates. (...) Not sure about this, except to look for posts with (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.general)
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I for one, love it. I have met great people, talked about one of the passions of my life, got sets I never dreamed I could, debated things I never would with people I would have never met, and have so many things I want to build now, I want to go (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think it absolutely terrible that you have created the slow torturous death of RTL. :') It has exceeded my wildest expectations. The amount of time and effort that you have expended to make LUGNET news as user friendly, organized, (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Heck, I'll go farther. I will nominate Todd for the Nobel Prize, he's obviously increased world piece (count). (what, it's for world PEACE?? never mind) (...) Ditto. But she's doing Heavy Research so that's an OK tradeoff. (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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More RTL stats at <URL:(URL). The different categories are counts of posts containing relevant keywords. (Sales & Auctions = "sale|auction", Mindstorms = "mindstorms", etc.) I plan do redo this with the addition of looking for "FS" and "FA" in the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Interesting, Castle is the most stable. (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yeah, I assumed that -- it's been around and popular for a long time. SW and Mindstorms, of course, started recently. ("Space" seems kind of hard to search for, and very likely to return false positives.) (25 years ago, 7-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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Hmm, there is a spike right after the first of the year. I bet that is caused by new users fresh from their dark ages after buying holiday presents for younger relatives... KL (...) (25 years ago, 7-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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Matthew Miller: (...) Thanks. It looks like the ration of "commercial" posts is increasing steadily. Could you also plot the different categories as percentages of the total? (I can do it myself if you publish the raw numbers ;-) Play well, Jacob (...) (25 years ago, 7-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Sure. For both of those requests. :) Not sure if I'll get to it today though. Got suggestions for other interesting search terms? (25 years ago, 7-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Cool! My guess is that plenty of sale/auction posts are still not being captured. FS/FA will help with that. Steve (25 years ago, 7-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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[ (X)FUT lugnet.admin.general and lugnet.off-topic.geek ] Matthew Miller: (...) Now that you ask for it... I did consider if it would be practical to train an ANN to classify the posts[1]. Play well, Jacob 1) If you take this seriously, you might (...) (25 years ago, 7-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Congratulations Todd and Suz! I believe LUGNET is the single most important resource for any Lego enthusiast. (with the possible exception of Lego bricks themselves, although this is debatable because of ldraw and similar Lego cad tools). It's not (...) (25 years ago, 7-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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