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(...) Well, if it comes down to it, there's a reason the Lugnet groups are all in a lugnet hierarchy. But as you may have gathered from my other posts, I'm strongly in favor of not duplicating discussion forums. (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yep. He also runs the International System Creativity Contest. And he was just at BrickFest. :) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.org)
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<snip> (...) system (...) central (...) to his (...) <snip> It sounds like anyone can take the entire contents of LEGOFan.net and create their own version. This doesn't sound right to me. I understand that the server side code to display the (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.org)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) Which part of the community, specifically? General LEGO fans? Webmasters of other LEGO-related fan web sites? (...) Why? Although I have been vocal in my opinion that Lugnet is not the perfect LEGO hub site, since it deals with a subset of (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general) !
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| | Re: Community run (was Re: LEGOFan.net...)
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[ XFUT lugnet.org ] (...) What did you expect with nine people in the current working group and not much carved in stone yet? (...) That's not good. I would at least have hoped that each of us were consistent in our replies, even if the group as a (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general)
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(...) 1) That the site software will be published under an Open Source license. 2) That the content (or at least as much as possible of it) will be available as a whole under an Open Source license. 3) Probably also that we will set up a formal (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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| | SGML entities (Was: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.)
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[ XFUT lugnet.off-topic.geek ] (...) LoL But if I am not mistaken, John got his SGML entities right. As I remember the SGML standard, you don't have to close a SGML entity with a semicolon. Play well, Jacob (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yes. :-) (...) We are a bit slow occasionally, but you risk that we react at some point. :-) We hadn't exactly _planned_ go announce the project this early in the process, but it seemed unreasonable to keep quiet, now that the talk about (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org)
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(...) It is. (...) As little as possible. We want to make the content accessible in as many different ways as possible, but preferably using existing protocols like NNTP, SMTP and NNTP. (...) You sound like a Jacob clone. :-) But it could be fun to (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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[ XFUT lugnet.org ] (...) Once there is something to show, it should of course be announced widely to the online LEGO fan community. But this was (at least from my point of view) more thought as a follow-up to the WorldLUG discussion than a full (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general)
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[ XFUT lugnet.org ] (...) It will not happen. We will still have to have a competent group of system administrators checking if new modules are up to par, before they can go into the central LEGOFan.net site. But if a developer creates a really cool (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general)
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(...) I think any standards compliant browser should work for the website, oh, and IE. We do want to implement an NNTP interface as well as an SMTP, for as much content as possible. My personal philosophy is that javascript can be used only to (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general) !
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(...) That sounds like mostly server-side stuff. Have you figured out yet what you are going to require from clients (users)? The reason I ask is that I'm an old-fashioned soul, and am unlikely to use discussion groups that are not NNTP-reachable, (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: 1 Question: assurances & limitations [Re: LEGOFan.net - central community... ]
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(...) Actually not. What we _have_ discussed is to make it possible for parents to decide that some classes of content is unsuitable for their children, and for users of the site to decide some age limits for access to content/discussion groups they (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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(...) Dan will start throwing heavy stuff across the Atlantic, if I claim it is vapor-ware at the moment, but it is at least not in a usable state yet. Basically (and possibly not quite correctly) it is a content management system with access (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I don't read German, so I can stand to be corrected, but I believe Rene is the admin of 1000steine.de. (...) Lugnet is the home of many AFOL, Even if it doesn't link to my own (...) FBTB is the first link in the lugnet.starwars sidebar, which (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-04, to lugnet.org)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) I have been reading quite a few defensive posts from Lugnet fanatics, so I thought I would chime in. I totally support what you guys are doing. I think it is the right direction. I think the community is in some places stagnating, and in other (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-04, to lugnet.org)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) Who is Rene? (I don't mean to be rude, i truly don't know) Half the website you mentionned are not on my frequently visited websites. fbtb.net, however, would be there, but it's not on yours. As for the central hub, it doesn't have to link (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-04, to lugnet.org)
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(...) As I recall, Larry and Frank Filz have the power to cancel a user's posts at the request of that user, but do *not* have the authority to cancel them as a moderator would (i.e., because the content violates the ToS). (22 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.org)
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(...) There's also Larry P and that other guy (whom I can't remember and am to lazy to search for). (22 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.org)
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