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(...) Well, I will. I want to have this on record in case the message on Usenet gets cancelled somehow. This is serious. Here are the headers: ------begin------ Path: reader2.news.rcn.net...ed.berkele y.edu!netnews.com!ch...ne.net!24. (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Dan: Just so you know, what you just did is grounds for removal. Please do not ever do it again, even to make a point. Obviously you meant well but this is an extremely important rule not to violate. To repeat from the discussion group T&C, (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) Lego DOES have an email address. I have it and have sent them email. They just don't give it out because they don't want to be flooded with email from people who want to buy 2 purple 2x2 tiles or something else. (...) I don't think you really (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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If this idiot from Mediaone.net was a little smarter, he could have faked Brad Justus's post even here as I just did: (URL) please delete the above message. I think everyone should be assigned a password to post here so you couldn't impersonate (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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In response to myself: I WAS WRONG. LEGODIRECT AND BRAD JUSTUS (The legitimate one) DO EXIST. Just wanted to help clear this up. The hoax is the retraction posted to RTL, not the posts to Lugnet from Brad Justus. Note: I will not be deleting my (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Space Shuttle Set for Sale at ZanyBrainy!
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(...) Really? Wow! That's good to know for future reference. James (URL) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Welcome to the dark side of the internet, Brad. Please don't let this get you down or spoil you on our community. (...) Mediaone.net's abuse department should be contacted about the impersonation, with extremely vehement complaints, at the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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I won't post the headers to the original message because it contains a private email address. The original message from Brad was posted from "interport.net" an RCN company. RCN is a dialup isp that covers the northeast US, and would be a reasonable (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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The first message appeared to have come from another isp, interport.net, not mediaone.net, although the original never appeared on my news server so I can't get a look at the complete headers (only what dejanews provides). It's possible that this (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Let me stop this right now. Whoever posted claiming that LEGO Direct is a scam was not me; and the sentiment expressed in the post could not be more wrong. LEGO Direct is a very real undertaking of The LEGO Company and we are very committed to it -- (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego) !
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"Brad Justus" wrote stuff about Lego Direct being a scam In the first instance, the posts to Lugnet and rtl were more or less simultaneous, yet there has been no post to Lugnet. One wonders if this might be because Todd's moderation would have (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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It is not 2000 yet, so your message does not exist... ... or at least that is official policy(?) Scott A (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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are any of the folowing parts currently hard to get? which of these parts does not currently appear in a set or service pack that is easy to get? all in black unless it says otherwise 2 x 4 plate 9v train wheelsets 2 x 2 plate 1 x 6 plate train (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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If someone can decode all this and do a DNS lookup on the IP listed.. Here's the full header from that message. Notice complaints to abuse@mediaone.net it's a cable modem setup. so he's probably able to change his server name on the fly. Path: (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Trains & Promo Auctions on Serious Collector
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If interested, check out my auctions on Serious Collector: 2774: (4 URLs) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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WE HAVE ALL BEEN SHAFTED!!!...!!! How gullible are we all--I guess very much so. After all, the email address looked official enough. And we all want our greatest wishes to come true. But I think we all got burned!!!! I personally did not post a (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Has anyone actually successfully made and operated a compass sensor? I took a hiking compass and measured about 5 degrees deviation within about four inches of the RCX. On, off, didn't matter too much. But within a couple of inches of two motors, (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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That message was posted from ndnws01.ne.mediaone.net It's too bad all the other messages posted by Brad are gone from my newsserver. That way we could compare if they all came from the same IP. Of course the only one who knows more about these (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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That is bad, though since I'm taking Sociology this semester, I have to look at how the culture of where this company exists is much different than ours in the US. You notice how those products do sell better in europe than the US, and you can be (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.scala, lugnet.general)
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(...) I had a feeling this was going to happen......I could be true.....or just some evil person who thought it would be a hoot to go and post a fake message saying Lego Direct was fake.......if it is the second of the two I am going to go into my (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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