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(...) Ahhh, much better! :-) Repeating the same test as last time, this time it didn't let me put anything in twice. And since it shows the results right away, it only takes one or two resubmits to see that it can't be easily stuffed. That oughtta (...) (25 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) OTOH, what I tried out was probably not something that most people would figure to give a try, so it may not end up being a real issue. If you ask people not to vote more than once (like explicitly state that, and make that a condition of (...) (25 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Google (...) Yes, Netscape does think resize == reload which is stupid. However, that is not what the problem was here. Hitting reload does not normally register additional votes. Todd stopped accepting cookies at just the right time and that (...) (25 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I've noticed that in plenty of Netscape versions, but I can't say I've ever seen it in MSIE. -Adam 8^D (25 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Yea, I noticed Netscape at least does this. I think MSIE does also. It's pretty stupid. Sure, you may have to re-interpret the HTML to do the resize, but there is no good reason to do a re-load. It makes some web sites incredibly painful, get (...) (25 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish)
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"Matthew Miller" <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrn8sdf01.lvi.....bu.edu... (...) years (...) separate (...) rights. (...) Unfortunately, I don't believe I do. (...) Yeah, not worth it. I noted that before so that I could acknowledge it (...) (25 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Oops, looks like I misspoke(wrote). I just went back to the USPTO search page (URL) searched again with the "Registered" radio button selected (instead of "Both") and it didn't show up there, but showed up under "Pending." Thus, it appears (...) (25 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.publish)
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(...) To the extent that that e-mail forms a contract (which is relatively weak), and that e-mail has no specific provisions for review or renewal, I suspect you could continue using "webring" for the site(s)/system(s) described in that e-mail (...) (25 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Do you still have that e-mail? That would be a good thing. "Web ring" is an extremely descriptive mark, and if you realllly wanted to go to court, you might be able to argue fair use. But I certainly don't think it's worth that! (25 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.publish)
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"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G13t90.194@lugnet.com... (...) servicemark (...) services (...) users (...) contain (...) word (...) This contradicts an email I got from a Webring representative a couple years ago, saying (...) (25 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.publish)
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(...) According to the USPTO, Yahoo! (via GeoCities) has a registered servicemark on WEBRING, with pseudo marks WEB RING and WE BRING, in the goods and services category of "Computer software, namely a navigation tool that enables users of a global (...) (25 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.publish)
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(...) BTW, if you replaced <form method=GET action=/cgi-bin/poll.cgi> with <form method=POST action=/cgi-bin/poll.cgi> then if someone hit the Reload button it would ask them if they wanted to repost the form. That might cut down a bit on accidents. (...) (25 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Ya. I think I just hit the Reload button and it reposted the form. (...) At some point I turned off new cookies. It might have been after the entry page, or it might have had the old cookie from earlier. Hmm, weird. Something else I just (...) (25 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) s/do you/did you/ Front page, search engine, "my" portal with stock price views and news. Oh, and I read their Reuters feed a lot. Yer typical "male aged 18-59" stuff. The ads were for Playboy and Maxim, FWIW. Porn by my definition. I have (...) (25 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The latter. It certainly would be neat to have LUGNET do and be everything possibly (1) LEGO related. But I fear for dilution of focus and for Todd's sanity (2). However he's said that: a) he wants to do this b) he doesn't see it as a huge (...) (25 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, quoting from the above, I personally suspect that much of Tim's objections come from "...its stripped-down navbar with limitations and advertising integrated, and [limited] management options as well." For my own case, I will withdraw (...) (25 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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I guess the LEGO Studios movie maker <set:1349> is shipping October 1st according to S@H. Does anyone know if the camera is the same as in the Vision Command set? It looks the same just a different color housing. Are there any reviews out there for (...) (25 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Why, Larry? If Todd adds another Fan-Of-Lego service to LUGNET, how would this detract from LUGNET's value? Or is it strictly Todd's priority scheme you're worried about? (...) Agreed here. Tim, please give us more details. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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| | Why Yahoo is bad (Was: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo)
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(...) Speaking for myself, I find what Yahoo is trying to do a tad offensive. I can't quite pin down exactly what it is about Yahoo, but it has something to do with how much leverage they are getting in the Web publishing market, the aggressiveness (...) (25 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Tim and I talked on the phone a bit last night about some ideas -- and we think we came up with a couple of ring-related implementation ideas which could be quick and easy to implement and not have a negative time impact. I have to talk the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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