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Re: COMPLETE LIST OF NEW SETS FOR 2000
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Date: 
Wed, 8 Dec 1999 01:23:04 GMT
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Richard Franks <spontificus@__nospam__yahoo.com> wrote:
You mean create a fake identity?  Nah...
We'd see through that wouldn't we? Wouldn't we? *looks around in paranioa*

*starts pulling at Mikes hair.. Todd.. Todd.. is that you?*

Heh, no.  :)

He just needs to realize that without flashing disclaimers and
alarms going off, peole are going to read his words as having been
uttered by THE MAN.  And even with those things, they'll still carry
some of that.

And *we* need to realise that he may need to act as a normal FOL as well some
times - he's built us this lovely sand-pit - we owe him that at least.

Where's the fun if you can't have opinions and express them? I am pretty sure
that LUGNET was created to bring fans together rather than as a chance for Todd
to exercise sysadmin powers!

Man, I must not have made myself clear.  I don't mean Todd shouldn't
express himself or his opinions as much as he wants.

Mainly, what I'm trying to say is that Todd needs to understand
that even if HE thinks he's coming across 100% purely as personal
Todd, others may not see it that way.  And if the main thing that
indicates he IS personal Todd is an e-mail address most don't
notice, well.... I'd say it's obvious that it ain't working.  If
even a few people don't make the distinction, then the effort to
make it is wasted.

Now I'd say something like a sig from his @personal account that
said something about these being personal messages, not meant as
indications of policy, yada, yada, yada would go a long way to
making it OBVIOUS that the person writing the message is personal
Todd and not Admin Todd.

And posting from @visi.com or @javanet.com doesn't make even a tiny
bit of difference.  :)

It's obvious that (as usual) there has been more thought behind this than we
assumed! If Todd wants to have his say, then we should do what we can to make
sure that we don't confuse his 'fan' persona with his 'sysadmin' persona, and
also correct those who do get confused.

If this means checking his email address then personally it's a small price to
pay. It's not hard to remember that if it's not from lugnet.com then it's not
official!

Maybe.  But it would be a lot easier for one person (Todd) to insert
a little "Hey, it's me - non-Admin Todd" funny sig in each message
than it would be for hundreds or thousands of people to read every
message and check to see which address it came from, don't you
think? :)

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(...) *thinks about pulling some more just to make sure, but decides against it* (...) I should have made myself clear that you had made yourself clear, and that I agreed with it :) (...) Assuming that he did something like that, then there are (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: COMPLETE LIST OF NEW SETS FOR 2000
 
In lugnet.admin.general, Mike Stanley writes: <snipped hugely and indiscriminately> (...) LOL! The first thing that popped into my head was: Personal Todd? Admin Todd? To be followed by Malibu Todd just in time for Christmas? James (URL) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) Imagine you built a big sand-pit for everyone to play in, and lo.. everyone did. But then they started saying that you couldn't play in the same way as everyone else, as they felt a bit funny about it. So all that was left for you was to add (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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