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Re: My Own Train - Special Offer
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:31:20 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Scott Arthur wrote:
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Am I alone in getting annoyed with TLC’s relentless “market” posts in
non-market groups?
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Probably not alone, but I’ll bet most people are willing to tolerate it in
the name of good relations with TLC.
That said, I think you raise a good point, although I’m not sure I would
have done it as a direct reply to one of the posts in question.
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Is this what we envisaged for LUGNET?
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It certainly isn’t, no. However, I think in this case, the groups it was
posted to are fairly targeted: Posted to .trains because it’s about
trains; posted to .events.brickfest because it was mentioned at BrickFest
and this is follow-up information; posted to .lego because it’s a TLC
thing; posted to .market.buy-sell-trade because it’s a market thing; and
posted to .announce because it’s an announcement. (I’m not defending it;
I’m just analyzing what I think was the reasoning for the wide
crossposting.)
The main things I’d change about the crossposting next time if I were Jake
is using .lego.announce instead of .announce, and using .market.shopping
instead of .market.buy-sell-trade.
Again, I don’t think you’re alone, but in the interests of having good
relations with TLC and accomodating those who do want to see marketing
messages from LEGO in non-market groups, I’m not going to intervene here
unless these marketing posts get really out of control. Yes, it’s true
that TLC is being allowed to break the rules here. Is that bad? I’m not
sure. It feels wrong to me (the world’s biggest compartmentalized dork),
but history has shown that cracking down on TLC for things like this has
started flamewars in the past and that is much worse than letting them
bend the rules.
Anyway, you might consider writing Jake privately and expressing your
concern about the wide crossposting, and see what he says.
--Todd
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| I understand your sentiment 100%. I was not clear if TLC had some sort of special deal to exploit us this way outside .market. It sounds like they have not, but are being extended some flexibility. I imagine I’d be less irked by this if TLC were (...) (20 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| (...) I know some people won't believe this, but I really wasn't trying to spam any groups. Your assessment was pretty accurate. I get complaints all the time via email, IM, phone, and in person that people didn't see my posting on a certain (...) (20 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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