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| (...) LOL…Too funny, I didn’t think you’d pick up on that. O.K. fine so ‘Progress Report” would be a bit of a stretch! -R (25 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org, lugnet.general)
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| (...) I thank you for your honesty and I respect your opinion. Fine, “at best silly, or annoying, or at worst result in the degredation of quality” simple criticism and a disagreement is totally fine, but, don’t insult me with the word stupid. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| (...) Right...and as a .org group, it SHOULD be up to them to poilce themselves...but perhaps not in public, and not so vehemently, in my mind. (...) Jesse Alan Long Syndrome. <little snip> (...) Yep...it's all about tolerable lines...Calum's seems (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general)
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| (...) My take on it is that it's "ok" up to a point. Obviously, once a group is dominated by left-field remarks, it's no longer relevant and should be moved elsewhere. The other danger of having lots of these remarks being that people may stop (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general)
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| Ah...I see this has made it's way into .general...I can chime in... If Richard's little toung-in-cheek ribbing of the high-volume groups is unwelcome, then so too must be any obiquitous post from left-field. I mean, really, I spent time typing Monty (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Exactly! Remember, anyone can say WHAT they want, WHEN they want, and HOW they want. As long as it’s within the bounds of the TOS agreement and doesn’t anger the great almighty Todd it’s cool. I think most of us are intelligent to realize that (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org, lugnet.general)
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| (...) I do when those posts are nothing but filled with periods. I agree with Eric, they incite others to randomly post as well. (...) It certainly does reflect on the group. As it relates rtlToronto as a group to other groups in terms of posts. (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org, lugnet.general)
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| <snip> (...) Richard, Take it easy. Just so you know the posts did look like rtlToronto was trying to start a competition with NELUG. That may not be how you meant them but that is how I perceived them. You might also not be aware that many people (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| Calum Tsang wrote: “Actually, it's no one in rtlToronto really, it's Richard doing his own thing, for whatever stupid reasons. On behalf of rtlToronto as an organization, I apologize, it's not us in any formal capacity.” (...) Really, I'm sorry you (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org, lugnet.general)
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| To All, (...) It isn't our fault we just have so much to talk about! ; ) Really, it is just from GATS, that rtltoronto group up there (We love you folks, just a mild jest in the spirit of international competition!). The forum is a good place to get (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| (...) From the looks of things, MichLug is going to squash the competition-- since the original post on July 9th, NELUG's gotten 160 posts, rtlToronto's gotten 238, but MichLug's got a whopping 421 posts-- and even dominates lugnet.general in recent (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| (...) Actually, it's no one in rtlToronto really, it's Richard doing his own thing, for whatever stupid reasons. On behalf of rtlToronto as an organization, I apologize, it's not us in any formal capacity. I've already privately apologized to Eric (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.org, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) Follow the original message thread… (URL) about who’s gonna take top spot in the ‘race’ for most posts by an organization. Both MichLug and rtlTorontoare poised to surpass the once dominant NELUG!!! Shaun Sullivan wrote: (...) Actually, 'I' (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org)
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| (...) Those wacky Canucks in rtlToronto have been playing this game whereby they are determined to surpass the message traffic in the leading (by message count) US LUG newsgroup ... namely, NELUG's. At the time this message was posted, rtlToronto (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.org, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| whats this 30 posts away messages that i see? (25 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.org)
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| (...) That was pretty much what I had in mind...but I wanted to make sure there wasn't anything I needed to do to avoid stepping on anyone's toes in the other state LUG's. Thanks for all your advice, and be on the lookout for a new LUG! Tim (25 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.org)
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| (...) Well I don't think there is a "proper procedure" to starting a LUG. First thing I would do would be to post in the relevant .loc.us.fl groups to try and drum up interest. Thats what we (NELUG) did. Our first meeting was at my house with 5 (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.org)
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| (...) I'm doing this right now myself. Basically, I've found another AFOL here on California's Central Coast, and we've decided it is time to begin. It's just that simple, as far as I'm concerned. We're hashing out a name, and a logo. From there, (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.org)
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| (...) I don't know the exact amount of people you need to "officially" call yourselves a lug, but when you have like 3 or 4 people, write an e-mail to Todd Lehman, and see if he will give you a newsgroup. But that is only "formal" recognition of the (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.org)
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| Okay, I've got a question to all those out there...what's the proper procedure for starting a new LUG? I reside in Florida, in Tallahassee. For those of you unfamiliar with the layout of Florida, that's quite a long distance from Orlando, Tampa, and (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.org)
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