Re: What happened to this grooup?

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>"Tom Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I used to read and occasionally post on this group back in the mid 1990s. At
>> that time there were dozens of posts per day, now there are very few. Is
>> there some newer, preferred place to discuss LEGO?

>There are dozens (if not hundreds) of posts a day on the LUGNet.com 
>discussion forums.

>Many Usenet discussion groups have had their audiences dwindle away in 
>favor of web-based discussion sites.  In LUGNet's case, their server 
>allows both NNTP (Usenet client) access and web-browser access to the 
>same message database.  This is an outgrowth of the fact that the LUGNet 
>founders were very Usenet-savvy and participated in RTL back in the day.

I don't think they like the NNTP readers any more. I use WinVN and get a 
"connection refused" message when I  have tried to connect recently.

As far as I can tell from their web site, I have all the proper settings, and I 
have been able to acces it in the past.

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