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(...) Heck, who needs sleep? It's up, just to give people something to look at, I guess. I'm too tired to think about applying it to anything right now, but if there is a desire to use it for some Lego-related purpose and someone else can help (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yup, and like I said - my domain will have a hosting home for a long time. And unless I suddenly go bankrupt, it'll have a good home like it has now with full Perl usage, etc. Heck, even if I did go broke I could move it to a free place that (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Not thinking of it; already offered it. (...) Why do you say it's a bad idea? Every section of the LUGNET website (not just /reviews/) can use a curator or a set of co-curators for content and links organization. (Currently, I'm curating all (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm pushing Todd's hot button on purpose here a bit, but I suspect that even though it's GPL he might not host it because Todd has a bit of NIH, which is what I was referring to vis-a-vis cathedral vs. bazaar. I bet he'd link to it if you (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well, if it needs to be hosted elsewhere I can do that. I can also look into giving a single trustworthy person limited telnet access to my account to actually install and get it working. Or Todd can host it and I can just use it. :) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.admin.general)
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Ya! I like this. Todd told me offline he's thinking of empowering someone to do some content organization in the /reviews/ part of LUGNET. Bad idea. This is somewhere where the bazaar method is presenting us a ready made answer, although it isn't (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) If this is something I could install or have installed on my domain (guarded-inn.com) and then let someone else have the responsibility for maintaining it, I wouldn't mind hosting it. Since this would all be text (or mostly) I can't see space (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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(...) --snipped-- (...) that sounds like it has good potential...i'd just be concerned with how permanent such a site is, how much space we'd have, and how to protect contributors' ownership rights. have others dealt with faqomatic sites? ..joseph g (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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(...) Hmmmmm......I Could do all that with just a faqomatic site. Then I could dish out access to people who showed promise. Or I could allow free access, and have moderators. Anyone have ideas? I could set up a working site in a day. A snazzy one (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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(...) I know that Larry's post is in response to Jeff Johnston's original post but I wanted to share my ideas on the matter. I'm quite bummed about the way things have gone at adequate.com. I edited around twenty reviews that have been waiting to be (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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(...) I did, and it hasn't. Yet, anyway. But this is a hobby, he may not have gotten round to it yet. :-) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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I built the 4561 train over the weekend and offer the following observations. I am a newbie to trains so please know that my comments are relative. 1.) The supply of windows is great. 2.) The amount of track-- relative to the length of the train-- (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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(...) Ahh, cool, and here it is... (URL) THE review format. :) (...) If you posted it to RTL, then the place I'd would expect it to have shown up would be on Joshua's site, at the rec.toys.lego LEGO Set Review Archive: (URL) you posted it using THE (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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Be sure to include in your 8448 review: "...truly inspired by the 956, but built with the structural nuances of the 8480 Space Shuttle. Definately not another 8880, but strangely that's a plus." KL (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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What's your format? I have a 3225 I sent to Adequate.com a year ago, almost, and it hasn't been posted yet (it was posted to RTL I think) so at this point I would send it to any site that would publish it. Or is this your own reviews only? (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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(...) How about pooling resources with Joshua? (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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(...) new review site because i hadn't seen one in a long time and now you've got one started. good job! i'll look forward to the development of your site. ..joseph g (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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Read my reviews at (URL) posted include: 6007 Bat Lord 6027 Bat Lord's Catapult 6029 Treasure Guard (polybag) 6087 Witch's Magic Manor 6097 Night Lord's Castle 6099 Traitor Transport 6279 Skull Island 6296 Shipwreck Island 9376 LEGO DACTA Castle set (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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(...) :) (...) year) (...) (25 years ago, 8-Aug-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) So, Legos are cold? I thought you had to keep them at a certain temperature. :) Greg "Les pommes sont violét et grosses" Majewski (starting French 2 this year) citrusx__@yahoo.com (URL) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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