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| | | (...) Spam doesn't have to be commercial to be spam. In Usenet, what Richard did is a particular type of spam known as "excessive multiposting" (although I haven't looked yet to see whether it was a single crossposted message or the same message (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: All UK Groups subscribed? —Simon Robinson
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| | | | | (...) Yeah - but I think it is a bit different in the US. I've only been to the USA once - and I don't know if other people have found the same thing - so tell me if anyone else disagrees... but one of the overwhelming things I found in the USA was (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: All UK Groups subscribed? —Sarah Heacock
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| | | | | | | (...) I dunno. I guess it depends on where you have relatives and how well-traveled in the US you are. I have family in both South Carolina and Texas -- and I am in Washington (state) -- so I don't feel that either Texas OR SOuth Carolina is (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | | Why there are so many UK groups —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) On the other hand, to someone living in Boston, events transpiring 4000 km away in San Francisco typically seem a hundred times closer than events transpiring only 400 km away in Montreal. (...) But in the USA, where petrol is (terribly (...) (25 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: All UK Groups subscribed? —Simon Denscombe
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| | | | (...) Acknowledged. I'll work out a plan (like Richard is) and see how it fits together then do a vote or something so everyone is more or less happy. (...) I can understand Northern Ireland being seperate because it is only linked by boat and plane (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: All UK Groups subscribed? —Sanjay D'Souza
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| | | | | Carbon 60 wrote in message <373F416C.6134A01C@b...ot.com>... (...) in (...) to (...) ;-) I think it's disgusting how many foreigners there are in a newsgroup dedicated to the Best of British. Maybe there should be a Lugnet.loc.uk.foreigners (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: All UK Groups subscribed? —Pamela Fryer
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| | | | | | | (...) Pardon me for imposing when I do not reside in the UK (hubby is UK transplanted to Michigan USA though - does that qualify?). My lugnet history - I lurked around before subscribing around February. I originally read the posts in the various (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: All UK Groups subscribed? —Simon Denscombe
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| | | | | | | | (...) Do you fall in the 107% time (Formula 1 based gag)? (...) Well there lies the problem we have here - I'm based near Birmingham BTW. (...) I don't know really but the opinion of many people on this group is for the zero-policy and have no (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | RE: All UK Groups subscribed? —Sarah Heacock
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| | | | | | | Even if a foreigners group was set up, I would still be posting and reading this one. Why? Because I am not interested in being separated out from where the real traffic is but, rather, reading what is going on in ALL the Lego locations out there. (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: All UK Groups subscribed? —Simon Denscombe
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| | | | | | (...) Kinda defeats the objective of a local group really :-) It'll be a bit like RTL. (...) That's watching Premiership Football with a pint down the pub - warm beer - ugh! A nice cold pint of Carling or WorTHIMGton (it's a man THING). You have got (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: All UK Groups subscribed? —Sanjay D'Souza
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| | | | | | Carbon 60 wrote in message <374073C7.CF87E266@b...ot.com>... (...) Does it? a lugnet.loc.uk.foreigners would be great for people outside of the UK who wished they lived in the UK to talk about things that happen in the UK that they wished happened (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: All UK Groups subscribed? —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) I think Richard may have been suggesting the removal of certain groups, which is an extremely drastic measure and only a last resort if all else fails. What newcomers really need the most help with is: - Learning about the existence of the (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: All UK Groups subscribed? —Ed Jones
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| | | | (...) I may have missed this already but: Couldn't the "locations" page be redesigned to show groups and subgroups in an outline format that would better define main and subgroups like subdirectories in DOS or Explorer. UK - London - Lancaster USA - (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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