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Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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Date: 
Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:40:43 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm(avoidspam).org
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Brian Gefrich <webmaster@christinapetty.com> wrote:
You listed a number of sites that serves you well.  Unfortunately, for a
number of more casual fans, that number is a few sites too high. From my
personal perspective, I would love have one site that contains (within
the site itself) everything I am looking for. I can't tell you how many

To spell out the concern directly: it seems like this new site will either
add yet one more new place to look, or else kill off one or more existing
ones. Or -- and this seems unfortunately possible -- *both*.

But as I said elsewhere, that's pessimism speaking. Maybe it'll be a very
good aggregator and bring *increases* to the other sites.



--
Matthew Miller           mattdm@mattdm.org        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux      ------>                <http://linux.bu.edu/>



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  Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
 
(...) I don't think you should expect LEGOFan.net to lower the number of LEGO fan community sites. If we manage to release some easy to use software for setting up a community site, it will probably result in an increasing number of local LEGO fan (...) (20 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)

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  Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
 
(...) <snip> (...) <snip> (...) <snip> (...) For my part, Terry, I disagree that this is being done with any disrespect towards LUGNET. It doesn't seem to be some personal "Don't like the way you run things" reasoning, like you have with Bricklink. (...) (20 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)

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