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(...) Cool! More builders in Western Mass! (I'm in Greenfield myself.) Congrats on getting the job!! -Hendo (22 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.people)
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(...) Alright! Getting some discussion going! (I can talk about this stuff for days!) (...) But not everyone *is* part of a community right? Take a local town/community for instance. To be part of that community, you have to actually live in that (...) (22 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) Jake, The problem with your definition is that, superficially anyway, it comes very close to excluding people like me. Since coming out of my dark ages almost 3 years ago I have been one of your employer’s best supporters (trying the (...) (22 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) Care to FIELD a few questions about this? :-P Paul Sinasohn BAYLUG (22 years ago, 13-Apr-03, to lugnet.people)
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(...) Please see Shiri Dori’s Acronym FAQ: (URL) will help you also with the other ones that you may encounter, and some are just plain fun to read. With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (22 years ago, 12-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) Hey I was just wondering what IMHO stands for... thanks! Matt C. (22 years ago, 12-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) Congratulations, especially in this academic job climate. I'm envious because I do want to end up in Massachusetts! But I fear that we humanities people have little control over that. Mmmm, near Enfield and a Lego room. Nice. best (Not Dr. (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.people)
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Earlier today, I accepted a job at Westfield State College, in Massachusetts. West of Springfield, east of Pittsfield, south of Greenfield, north of ENFIELD! Once I get established (and get a Lego room set up), I'll start building again. You have (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.people)
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(...) When I had left the service back in '99 and discovered that LEGO made trains...my jaw had hit the floor! And I was totally engrossed in LEGO (and the online AFOL community). However, since that time I have become involved in other hobbies as (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) [sniii...iiip] (...) WOW. This is really cool! I wish I had time to reply inline to some of the stuff you came up with. I think this is a great definition, and I'm glad you posted it. -Tim (22 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) The Community Development team (the team I am on), spent some time looking at this same question. As you can imagine, we get LOTS of questions internally about "What is community anyway?" To address that question, we developed a generic (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community) !!
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Hey, right on Hendo. e (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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Woo-Hoo! With the designer sets I got a few weeks back, my collection has finally topped the 60,000 piece mark (not including BrickLink purchases)! I'm so happy. :) (URL) everywhere are breaking open the champagne... -Hendo (22 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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Being the geek that I am I decided to let the computer be the solution. So last night I wrote a vba script that when run on incoming authentication messages will automatically authenticate them and send them back to the server. You can use the (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.people.newbie)
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(...) Carefull! That's how I got started with them too. Now my collection has exploded into almost every set of the series ;-) But does that make me part of the LEGO community? Probably. But more so does the fact that I _say_ I am part of it. Think (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) LOL - oh what a dork I am! I just tried raising that question in a reply earlier in your post here, without realizing you raised it yourself a few lines down. Glad I didn't post it and make a fool out of myself :^) [1] Anyways... I've seen (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) Hey Ken - Thanks for posting this. I happened across your post first, then Matt's. I was very close to posting a reply I had written to his post, but didn't want to taint the thread with something negative. I think the ideas put forth in this (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) I have pondered this sort of topic a bit. I have intentionally only read one post here so as not to color my thoughts up front. Only a couple of small points frist on the LEGO 'community.' It's hard to say 'what' that is. I generally consider (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) Isn't pondering the unaswerables pretty much what philosphy is generally about? You seemed to be interested in writing a lot in response to a question you didn't seem to deem worthy of answering. You seem to want to disagree with this post on (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) If you are logged in via the web interface, and post via the web interface, you don't have to authenticate. But, if you are posting via email or NNTP news, you have to authenticate. This is because we've had problems in the past with people (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.people.newbie)
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