Subject:
|
Re: My Stance
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.admin.general
|
Date:
|
Fri, 20 Oct 2000 19:33:06 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1906 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.admin.general, Eric Joslin writes:
> [...]
> First, if Todd had cropped up in RTL and said "I'm going to make this site,
> it'll be great, it'll be an online LEGO community and we can talk about LEGO
> all day long" people probably would have told him "Hey, we have RTL, what do
> we need that for?". He didn't do it that way (as far as I know, although he
> can correct me if I'm wrong). He made the site, *then* told people about it.
The first way is closer to what happened. In November 1997, an announcement
was made to RTL of this: <http://www.lugnet.com/admin/plan/> and then
construction began. There was some controversy and some disbelief but mostly
it either got ignored or people said "good luck." I think the fundamental
important thing is simply commitment to a cause -- just keep plowing forward.
--Todd
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: My Stance
|
| (...) Ah. Well, my point stands (as does yours)- you weren't greeted with showers of roses and gold just because you stated your intentions for the site. You went ahead and built in anyway, and now you're King of the World (well, as soon as we bump (...) (24 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: My Stance
|
| (...) Matt, You're going to take this as some kind of slam, or some kind of flame, but it's not intended as one, really. Try to keep that in mind as you read it. I've read pretty much every post resulting from your initial posts of a few days ago. I (...) (24 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
|
122 Messages in This Thread:
(Inline display suppressed due to large size. Click Dots below to view.)
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
