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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@mattdmNOSPAM.org
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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 (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)

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