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(...) Check out the links at the bottom of the sidebar - apart from the 10th of August there is a NBLTC meeting coming up and Lawrence Wilkes has mentioned another Thames Valley Lego Fest in passing (probably September, Lawrence?) (...) On Lugnet we (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.uk)
 
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"Kerry Raymond" <kerry@dstc.edu.au> wrote in message news:Gxtuqp.4xG@lugnet.com... (...) [...] (...) Ah, but of those 11, how many were initially posted by Ben Whytcross? ;-) -- Cheers, Paul LUGNET member 164 (URL) (22 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.au)
 
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In .loc.uk it was said ... (...) I must say I was a bit surprised by the assertion that we Aussies have some unusual cross-posting fetish. So, research was called for ... For messages posted in June 2002 in .loc.au I found that: 91 were exclusively (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.au)  
 
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(...) In fact, its the reverse of the usual assertion - "Australians seem to have a general distaste with the mainly American-centric organization of lugnet and TLC. Thus they have diverged as a group, many of their posters post very rarely in other (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.au)
 
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(...) Er. That proves that impressions can be misleading, perhaps that things have changed since I noticed (thought I noticed) it, and certainly that I should make sure, before I say something, that my foot is nowhere near my mouth. So, I offer a (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.au)
 
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(...) ------8< snipped >8------ (...) ;) all in good fun... (of course) As a true blue Aussie myself... all I can say is "no worries Mate", "get over it sunshine" and "she'll be apples"... Cheesy grins =) Mel (gotta 'ava sense a humour!) (22 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.au)
 
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(...) Mmmmm. I have noticed that we (Australians) tend more to keep to ourselves rather than fan out into the theme groups. Even those of us that start out mainly in theme groups tend to end up back chiefly in loc.au I guess a consequence would be a (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.au)
 
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(...) This is certainly true for me. I find loc.au to be a more tolerant place than some other corners of LUGnet (anyone visited .direct recently!), and I think this is because I have physically met a lot of the loc.au regulars. I think that, having (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.au)

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