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Subject: 
Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Mon, 4 Oct 1999 02:03:47 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.org^spamless^
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
This being the eve of the anniversary, I'd be interested in hearing
people's thoughts on how things have turned out so far, and whether things
have lived up to or failed to meet people's expectations -- particularly
with respect to the hopes expressed in the announcement (attached below).

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 something often lacking on the modern internet. Of course,
all the great people here help! So yeah, I'd label LUGnet a great success so
far -- and I'm looking forward to all the fancy future features.

(Especially the Community Map. I want to claim my 16x16 plot of virtual
plastic in Technic Terrace....

(<URL:http://www.lugnet.com/admin/plan/4.html> for anybody who hasn't seen
this.))




[1] Remaining misgiving being: what happens if Todd gets hit by a bus? Not
only because I've gotten to know him a little bit and that'd be sad and all
:) but I don't like our whole community having a single point of failure.


--
Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us                       --->             http://quotes-r-us.org/



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  Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!
 
(...) 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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