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What is wrong with you people ? .Space is getting bad, but .scibrck is out of control ! You guys need to take a deep breath. This kind of childish crap isn't constructive. Remember: We all like to play with LEGO. That's what these formus are for. (...) (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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(...) Who are you? No seriously, who are you? When did someone say "I wonder what Jason Mantor has to say about this". How are you involved with this at all? For that matter, how am I involved with it? I suppose it's because of me being LEGO Pope (...) (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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(...) Jason, This isn't about tolerating anyone. You have never met me, but I am one of the most easy going guys around. I want everyone's opinion to be heard - I am a member of the Lugnet Transition team, and I am 100% committed to Lugnet's policy (...) (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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What a crock of crap. I on purpose included the words at the beginning of the post: "In support of SciBrick" Further more, your petty misperceptive paranoia is just insecurity. Outline why my post is invaild and you'll only illustrate why I left (...) (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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He is reffering to Chris' propensity to chime in as Judge. How can we move on if we all just keep harping on it. e (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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(...) C-L-I-Q-U-E. Marc Nelson Jr. (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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(...) R-E-F-E-R-R-I-N-G. Marc Nelson Jr. (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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Yes. Thank you : ) When I'm irritated, I often mispell things, sorry about that. (...) (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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Hello, I'm an AFOL who's been at least peripherally involved in the on-line LEGO community for a long time. Most of my bio on lugnet is accurate. I'm a 32 year old computer programmer, I'm married. My wife and I have a little boy who will be 2 years (...) (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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In lugnet.org.scibrick, Leonard Hoffman wrote: snip here and there... (...) I thought that was exactly what this whole thread was. (...) -Brian (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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(...) Brian, Umm.. perhaps then you could tell me what exactly his critque is. Re-read the first post, it is Eric posting a "SciBrick Wants You!" recruitement ad. It is not a critque of SciBrick. Since then, Eric has alluded to criticism, but has (...) (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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(...) Now that is a crock. You've accused me of hijacking your idea and mutilating it; how is that support? The recruitment ad doesn't support SciBrick - and by continuing this mess, all you are doing is hurting SciBrick. BTW, Wouldn't "Supporting (...) (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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(...) Jason, There is more happening here than you are aware of. And I hope, as I said in my other reply to you, that you get to know me well enough that I don't start drama like this unless it is necessary. And I believe it is. (...) Can you tell (...) (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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(...) Well, Blockhead, maybe if you had taken 1 minute to search lugnet under his name, you would have found 470 results...compared to 240 for yourself. (...) He's J-a-s-o-n M-a-n-t-o-r, idiot. (...) Probably about the same time that someone said "I (...) (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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Wow ! There is far more bad mojo here than I could ever have guessed : ( To paraphrase Keith, I have hastily jumped in with both feet and I'll add that I seem to have landed on a claymore ... I've gotten quite a bit of email recently. Alot of which (...) (20 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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(...) I have no clue what Eric thinks is wrong with Scibrick. From the initial response to his post, I assumed that the purpose was to draw people out to confront him about it openly, which (purposefully or not) sheds a bad light on Scibrick as a (...) (20 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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All, Keith makes several valid points, and I would like to expound upon them. I have been passively monitoring LUGNET for several years. I just finished reading this entire thread. I must congratulate all of the participants for finally penetrating (...) (20 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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(...) I believe Handel is dead too. But he did compose a nice piece called "Messiah". Maybe that's where the LEGO Pope got his name????? FUT: .o-t.fun ROSCO (20 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I'm sorry, but perhaps I should be more clear here: I am setting up a very clear rationale for who has the ability to post advertisements and announcements about a particular group. I do, because I was elected to do so. Eric does not because (...) (20 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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(...) I agree.. which is exactly why I have always been holding out for the possibility of a mass cancellation. Is this entire discussion something that really needs to be preserved in the Lugnet database forever? I should hope not. (...) Brian, I (...) (20 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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(...) I never claimed to actually be smart enough to stay out of it. I know just enough to stay on the fringe and observe. (...) -Brian (20 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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(...) Obviously Eric's post was inappropriate. Had you merely stated that Eric did not represent the organization. And, that all inquiries could be directed to SciBrick this may not have happened. (...) The question you have to ask is why have they (...) (20 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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-snip- (...) Do you really think I'm trying to control the discussion here? Honestly.. is that what you think? By "legitimate" - I am only meaning that someone should not show themselves to represent the whole group when they only represent (...) (20 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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(...) No (...) Agreed (...) I just wouldn't use that kind of terminology (...) Granted any promises that me be implied by Eric would be illegitamate and the need for Eric to come forward and admit his transgressions are clear."Legal measures" that's (...) (20 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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(...) We are in the process of creating a website which helps to automate the membership process so things like this don't happen. We have not been actively recruiting members lately because we were still trying to work some kinks out of the system. (...) (20 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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In lugnet.org.scibrick, Leonard Hoffman wrote: SNIP (...) Fine. You want an open discussion about what I found wrong with Scibrick? I tried going back to the website to find the list of rules and regs, but the site is down for maintanence. (...) (20 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick) !!
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(...) Ryan, This appears to be a mistake on my part, as I was Communications Officer at that time and also maintaining the yahoogroup and website (whew!. Because it's been so long ago, I can't trace how you were missed, so the best thing I can do is (...) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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(...) Huh-- it's kind of interesting to see that some people are annoyed with SciBrick for being too elitist, but Eric seems to want to make it moreso: (URL) that I'm really for or against the elitism, I suppose. There's plusses and minuses on both (...) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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(...) The above message was not approved by the Grand Admiral, who wishes to remain uninvolved in the preceding poop-storm. -Grand Admiral .space Curator (URL) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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(...) Are you insisting it be PHP? If you don't mind some perl (and really, why would you? :), sounds like an easy job. LMK if you're interested! Dan (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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(...) It is a fairly easy job, just somewhat tedious. Well, the goal was to use the (URL) template engine> to completely separate style from content. (...) I am...here's the database structure I came up with (with a couple notes): (URL) file> As you (...) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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(...) I might suggest combining sb_m, sb_m_loc, and sb_m_profile into sb_m, and just not fill in the _loc and _profile bits unless either supplied or member is a "full" member. Unless people can have multiple locations and profiles... Also, you (...) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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(...) I think I might have required unique member ids on those tables too. The idea was to keep the number of columns in sb_m down, but maybe that's not really necessary. (...) The zipcodes table is 40,000+ rows, while the world cities table is only (...) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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(...) Depends how much space you need to save, I guess. If you're using varchar's or text fields (for profiles certainly), you're only adding an extra... 2 bytes for a null entry? Forget if it's 1 or 2. So maybe 18 bytes extra per member. I guess (...) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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(...) It was more a matter of keeping the table easier to read and deal with for things like just listing members, which doesn't require a full bio and location, than of actually saving bytes. (...) The idea was to avoid lookups in those huge tables (...) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, FTX)
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In lugnet.org.scibrick, Keith Goldman wrote: [snippy snippy] (...) YEA! KNIVES ROCK! ... Haha! Now I will make fun of you by telling you that you exasperated the issue and that's you're just making things worse and feel like I'm the intelligent (...) (19 years ago, 17-Jun-05, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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