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(...) What, are you TRYING to annoy me here? You've edited Todd's and my words by trimming away most of the sentence to make it look like I am agreeing with Todd's definition. Gentle readers, do not be fooled by Scott's action here. Scott, I'm (...) (26 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Even if they have directed it at Target- and all their other retailers- it's ridiculous for them to try and stick the cat back in the bag. What possible purpose does it serve? Why does it benefit them to have people on Lugnet not talk about (...) (26 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) control (...) I would agree with that too. But what I am interested in is what were the legal grounds for the censorship? Scott A (26 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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Briefly because I'm at a client site and can't chat as much as I'd like. (...) Ding ding ding! Yes! (...) I definitely and without a doubt agree that you do not do that specific thing (whatever you or I call it) here and if anyone is thinking that I (...) (26 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) (26 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) John, Was that a cleverly timed joke (if so, nice work! :-) or was your content clipped unintentionally by your WebTV browser? Looking at the incoming HTML-form logs, your browser appears to have chopped the text after the "an". Question: When (...) (26 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) (26 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I should add one thing here to clarify the context of what I mean. I'm talking of course about the newsgroups above. In contrast, the sets database is a completely different story: editorial control *is* and probably always will be exercised (...) (26 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Errr...That should read "That is not a facetious question." --Todd (26 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Nothing, of course. --Todd (26 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That is in fact what happens here. Everything passes through unimpeded. However, if, after the fact, something has to be removed for legal reasons, how is that considered having exercised editorial control? (That is a facetious question.) (...) (26 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I absolutely and vehemently disagree with the assertion that editorial control is being or has ever been exerted. Perhaps we are working from different definitions of the term...? My working definition of "editorial control" is to edit or (...) (26 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Todd, what would you do if someone posted set numbers and names that they had legitimately obtained from www.lego.com? (see (URL) ) --Dave (26 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) One of them I have heard of is the distinction between an open forum and an edited publication. In an open forum, slander or libel is not the fault of the proprietor, but an edited one creates an expectation of an editorial standard and the (...) (26 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Apparently not. And that does change the situation in my mind. (26 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) He wasn't censoring as he was not removing material for moral or political reasons... he was exercising editorial control. A very important distinction. (...) (26 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) excise (...) fashion. (...) requirement. (...) It doesn't. Enforcing the T&Cs is exercising editorial control. I've said this a bunch of times, I think almost all of us want you to do it, so it's not about whether you should do so or not, it's (...) (26 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) We may have to agree to disagree on this but there is no difference in kind between "deleting on whim" (which I agree you should not do) and "enforcing the T&Cs" (which I think most of us strongly WANT you to do) from a legal sense. In my (...) (26 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) A Legalo man is a man who likes Lego but is concerned with Lego Legal matters. A Lego man isn't. His world is building Lego and unless Lego bring out minifig lawyers he has no interest in Lego Legal issues. Tim (26 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) What is a Legalo man? --Todd (26 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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