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In lugnet.people, "Richard Marchetti" <blueofnoon@aol.com> writes:
> Okay, you do for us so I'd like to do a little in support of that effort and
> join in on the offered Lugnet membership. At the same time, I would never
> want ANY information about myself or my interests shared out without my
> permission -- am I assured of confidentiality? I am not talking about other
> lugnuts finding out about me -- thats fine by me -- I am talking about selling
> such information about me, and us all, to some mad scheme to harrass/advertise
> to me/us by phone, mail, email, etc.
I can't promise 100.000% confidentiality, since no matter how unlikely,
theft or break-in is always a distant possibility, but I can promise that
personal information will never be sold or given out to spammers or to LEGO
or anything like that without your direct approval. Anything that's not
shown on your page will be held in strict confidentiality. Of course, if
you commit a crime and the FBI shows up with a court order for data, then
all bets are off. And of course, if you give out your password or someone
steals it from your computer or someplace you have it written down, then
they could potentially grab your personal information and do nasty things
with it.
> Also I wanted to know if I could specifically have the membership number
> 1313. Pretty please? I am desperate! I almost died when I saw that you were
> noting that some people might not actually want this number!!! If anyone else
> has beat me to it I want to know who (or perhaps you could ask this person to
> contact me instead) so that I could offer some kind of lego trade to obtain
> the number for myself instead. My affinity for the number is not a passing
> phase -- it has EVERYTHING to do with a long standing lego goal of mine. O,
> you'll find out soon enough what that goal is, and it would have happend for
> Halloween but as a student my time is not entirely my own.
So far, about 110 people have signed up, and it's gently tapering off. So
number 1313 won't come up for a while... If you've already filled out the
form and you'd like me to strike it, you could fill it out again later when
the numbers are up near that range. (I'll start publishing the names and
numbers sometime in the next few days as things get rolling.)
> Also I wanted to know if internet lego friends could share a residence on the
> proposed virtual member town? This is another "pretty please?" category...I
> mean since we can't share digs in the real world, can't we at least pretend we
> have a shared collection of ABS junk here?
You mean more than one person per house? Perhaps, but that kind of defeats
the purpose for that interface metaphor.
> Lastly, since I know that I am not likely to cough up the big wad of cash
> right at this juncture because of my not so deep pockets being, well, not so
> deep -- what are the plans for future donations to the cause?
I'm not sure I understand the question... There is a page with some
information on donations if anyone wants to make one (and a few people
have)...
http://www.lugnet.com/admin/finance/donations/
> Is there any
> chance we members will eventually be apprised of the costs of the site, or
> your out of pocket expenses?
The out-of-pocket costs so far since 1997 have been less than $10,000, but
in terms of time invested, it must be well over $100,000, if there's any way
to measure that. Not having any source of income except savings and running
parts auctions begins to take its toll on the pocketbook after a couple
years...
> I feel sure that such moves might help avoid the
> financial burden being yours alone. Are there any plans to try and make this
> outfit non-profit? Just my two bits.
I think it'll always be a for-profit thing. (Of course, it's far from
turning any kind of profit at the moment.)
--Todd
>
> I apologize if some of this has already been covered and I missed it, but I
> also wanted to make my special and personal requests.
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