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| | | | | Re: Server being voluntarily taken down (was: Re: Cats and pigeons...) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Doing what? I'm not following you at this point. Were you seriously contemplating shutting down all of LUGNET because someone posted a URL to some images on the lego.com site? Images that are out in public view? Images therefore covered under (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | (...) I'm looking for a solution (even an imperfect one) to an extremely complex problem which I'm afraid doesn't exist (the solution, that is). --Todd (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Jeremy Sproat
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | (...) I'm missing something here. Retailer catalogs are one thing. They're pretty clearly not for general consumption. But why exactly are the images in question trade secrets? They are posted on a public server by TLG with no protection whatever. (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Jeremy Sproat
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Steve Martin
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | (...) off the (...) The analogy is flawed. It is illegal to walk out with unpaid-for gum. It is the internets intent to disseminate information. If you post it on your site, you are saying "Hey, look at this". That is how it works out practically (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) It's not the same analogy at all. More like if outside the 7-11, on a public sidewalk, there was a big box with a sign over it that said "free for the taking" and it had gum in it. Are we supposed to read the minds of the 7-11 owners as to (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Powell
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| | | | | | | | | | | | It seems that there are no links from the "set database" to the images yet. The images still work, but I could not find any that were not listed (perhaps I am being web stupid however...) I still stand by the right to post links to pages on the (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) That's what I thought (that's what I'd read elsewhere just prior to Remy's post): They're not in the set database, but the images are sitting there like sitting ducks. (...) You could copy those images to geocities and link to them and they'd (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Nope. No intent to protect. Now, if you took a stance that said that you wanted everyone to guess what TLG really meant, that would be different (and impossible to enforce). But TLG is not demonstrating intent to protect. Given how much you (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Chris Ernest Hall
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | (...) This assumes that we know what their policy is for announcing sets. Getting a 2000 catalog in a Snowspeeder set isn't really "announcing" the 2000 sets, either, is it? One must assume, absent other statements, that putting the jpegs on the (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | (...) I dunno man. U'm running on about was much sleep as they probably are and I'll tell you what this ugly bag of mostly water is thinking: I'm thinking it will be nice to hopefully discuss this all with someone at LEGO Direct rationally a month (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | (...) We hear you and feel your pain. You MUST be spun up, that message has more typos than I've ever seen you make in one post. As you noticed, Brad J posted a reply to my DearLEGO post promising some official answers and asking people to settle (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Powell
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Yes, stand by it all you want. You have however, just vindicated what I said. Namely, if it is public domain (IE on this side of a firewall at www.lego.com or any other site), then it is by definition in the public domain. I am willing to bet (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Tom Stangl
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) But they WERE in the set database. I saw them at home this morning, and loaded up several of the graphics. Here in the good ole' USA. If you would have been up to buy DYA sets, you'd have seen them too ;-) (...) No. If their web designers are (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Jeff Boen
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) not I... I can't believe this conversation is even taking place... let me get this straight.. images are hosted on an open server... someone comes along and finds them by mod'ing the location line of a published, linked image (no doubt (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Lawrence Wilkes
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) the (...) I made a longer post on this somewhere else, but to clarify, here in the UK I could see all the sets clearly linked to from the front of the catalog, with new buttons for Knights Kingdom etc, and all the new sets were in the drop (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Tom Stangl
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| | | | | | | | | Oh now I have seen it ALL. TRADE SECRETS?!? That's it, you people are so hopelessly uptight, I may leave this group and go back to RTL!!! I'd rather have anarchy than self-righteousness! THEY ARE LINKS TO PICS ON THE F$&()%$ LEGO.COM SITE! If they (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | | | | (...) I find it odd, though, that now suddenly these things arouse all this bad feeling, where things like this have been going on for a while. Specifically, sometime before the first SW sets came out, I discovered a directory on a web server that (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) All calm and rational people have a breaking point (IMHO). What differs is simply the length of the fuse (how long something takes to reach critical mass) and the size of the splat (how big the resulting stink becomes). Other factors of course (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Jeremy Sproat
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| | | | | | | | First off, I just want to say that I can see my previous attitude in a different light. I trust that the parties involved understand that there is no need to flame me via e-mail. Having said that, after seeing how quickly the situation on lego.com (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Kevin Loch
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| | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | | (...) But it *is* public. It is on a public server, open to everyone. If that isn't public, I don't know what is. I (and others) did this Last December to see some of the Star Wars sets, and no one complained then. why is today different? Because of (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | (...) Uhm, Jeff? To paraphrase a popular quote: This is Lugnet. You have no inherent rights. Todd can do whatever he wants with lugnet.com. Up to and including going postal BOFH and cancelling random messages. Whether he is likely to do so, or will (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) I should point out that anyone could go postal on Usenet and start cancelling random messages there just as easily if they really wanted to. It's slightly more difficult to forge cancels than to forge actual messages, but it can be done, and (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Server being voluntarily taken down (was: Re: Cats and pigeons...) —James Brown
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| | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Brown
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| | | | | | | (...) Absolutely. 1: browse to (URL) follow hyperlinks/buttons "Lego Finder", "catalogue", "Europe/Africa", "System" "Knight's Kingdom" 3: select a set from the drop down list (or use the one that's there) 4: click the magnifying glass in the lower (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Could we be getting served different pages? I don't see a "catalogue" or "catalogue" link anywhere from the "Lego Finder" page. But I can get to the Europe/Africa page form the URL hint from SteveB: (URL) on the Europe/Africa -> System -> (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Rob Hendrix
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) When you hit "lego finder" look under the list of ages at the "catalog" button and click it. Then you can choose Europe. (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Okay, I see the "catalog" link. Clicking it now. OK, am now on the Europe/ Africa page. OK, am now on the System page. OK, am now on the Adventurers page. Still don't see 5903 in the list! --Todd (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Brown
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Then we're getting served different pages. I'm going to reboot my machine to eliminate that I'm somehow caching this stuff. (which I'm 99% positive I'm not, but I don't always trust IE) James (URL) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Brown
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) Hmm - Waited for the image to load this time - it's right below the age chart, and says "CATALOG" (...) Then we're being served different pages. I see it. Just jumped the hoops again, and saw 5903. I'm not logged into the Web Club - are you? (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Powell
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Brown
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Rob Hendrix
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) caching...Just, for Sh--s and grins, try using a different browser (like Netscape or something). Rob (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Brown
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Not an option here at work. Standardized desktop and all that. James (URL) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Lawrence Wilkes
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) I think we have been victims of an internet cacheing/replication problem. My guess is someone at lego made changes this morning to the web site in preparation for the new catalog. Before it was completed, some of the new pages/database (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) On the main page, there's a yellow bar at the top. The third option over is "Quick find". Clicking it pops up a net browser menu, which has in it a choice for "Catalogue". Click on that, and then on the map of Europe, and then on System. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Just did it, and 5903 (and indeed, all the new Adventurer's sets) are there. eric (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Brown
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Just to clarify - I never had broken links from my side. The links have *always* worked, but they have *never* had a working graphic. James (URL) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) For the record, I'm not accessing the internet via thirteen.net- that's just where I get my email. If you're really interested, I can divulge the specifics of my internet connectivty to you in private. (...) Same here. (...) What?!?!? Whoa. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | | | James Brown wrote in message ... (...) year-2000 (...) Gone now... Either TLC is committing a development sin here, or some hackers are having some fun. Assuming it isn't hackers, it appears that someone is testing new material on the live public (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) I gotta say,man, this thing really spooks me. --Todd (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Brown
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Ok, life gets weirder. I just got home, browsed over to www.lego.com - lo and behold the controversial links are there. This absolutely settles it in my mind (not that I had much doubt): The weirdness is at Lego. Different browser, different (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Brown
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) Unless it's propagating slowly, but in the other directions (pictures slowly appearing, as opposed to slowly disappearing)? This is weird. I think I'm going to go to my work's X-mas party, and drink and eat and hope someone's figured this all (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Brown
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) It worked! ;) James (URL) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Or, more precisely, the weirdness is every but at Lego. :-) Ya, this caching this would explain everything. At this point, in my mind, there's no doubt that Lego did intend to release these pictures ~12 hours ago and that the information took (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Tom Stangl
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| | | | | | | | I could see the broken GIFs over the links this morning at home (USA), but not by the time I checked at work an hour later. Yet obviously others are able to access them. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | (...) OK, did that. I'm on this page: (URL) There are a bunch of broken thumbnails, but they are the new themes. (...) Hmm, I don't see any broken thumbnails -- all the images loaded successfully. The thumbnails in the yellow box in the right panel, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Lawrence Wilkes
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| | | | | | | | | (...) I would say the 2000 set pages are history now here in the UK. (no doubt someone will prove me wrong) I have tried several different ISP's, flushed my PC's cache, etc and they have now all disappeared. They are all showing the 'proper' (?) (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Shiri Dori
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) Well, considering LEGO direct is supposedly reading LUGNET, they may have realized what happened, and told TLC to fix it... -Shiri (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Tom Stangl
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| | | | | | | | | | | | The JPGs, however, are still there. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Powell
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Wholeheartedly agreed. (...) I think we'll have to ("have to" as in "makes the most sense to") see if we can get some sort of "rulebook" or "playbook" clarifications from LEGO, hopefully via LEGO Direct, and use that as the standing ground. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Rob Hendrix
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | For the sake of clarification, I did send an email to Brad today so he could give Big Brother's views on the matter at hand. I didn't send it until 4:30 cst, so I don't expect a response until sometime next week (considering he DOES respond). (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | TLG official response may be coming (was Re: Cats and pigeons... —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Well, legodirect has beat your expectations. I asked, he answered.(1) (URL) got cross posted to admin.general as well) I for one find this promise of some official statement of direction to be VERY promising. Very VERY promising. 1 - it may (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: TLG official response may be coming (was Re: Cats and pigeons... —Rob Hendrix
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (...) <joke> <reply> OK...don't rub it in, OR, I'm not worthy *bowing* </reply> </joke> (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: TLG official response may be coming (was Re: Cats and pigeons... —John Matthews
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Congratulations Larry! Keep asking the good questions. Build On! John Matthews Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:3851B7CD.95F2C5...ger.net... (...) could (...) 4:30 (...) he (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Powell
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Thank You Todd... for being able to see both sides of this issue. I agree with what I snipped, and I think that clarification is a good thing, rather than a bad thing. James Powell (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Rob Hendrix
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| | | | | | | | | | | goto catalog, japan, system...Japan has four pirate sets...is that new? (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Lawrence Wilkes
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) I can prove myself wrong. They're back! They were not there this afternoon, then this evening they turned up again on 2 ISP's I tried (where they had disappeared from last night) Very weird Behaviour is still the same, all the links work on (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Well. You're right now, that is what's there. But earlier, when I posted it, it was as I described. It's not a caching issue, I never go to www.lego.com (too bloated for my taste). (...) Me too. eric (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Lawrence Wilkes
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) I think it is a caching issue Not your local PC cache, but your ISP's cache. Different ISP's are clearly serving up different versions of lego.com I was sitting hitting two ISPs simultaneously and getting different lego.coms As the day (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Brown
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| | | | | | | | (...) I see: Basic Supplementary Belville City Radio Control X-Treme Res-Q Insectoids Spaceport Ninja Knight's Kingdom Adventurers Rock Raiders Star Wars Classic Star Wars Episode I Star Wars Ultimate Collectors Trains Model Team Artic Football (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | | James Brown wrote in message ... (...) successfully. (...) have (...) and (...) pages (...) Are you behind a firewall? Your firewall may be caching the pages. Here's something you can try - use Babelfish at (URL) translate the page from any (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Rob Hendrix
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| | | | | | (...) Don't know how new this one is, but if you go to Mindstorms (in the Euro catalog on lego.com), you can look through the drop-down list and see the mars exploration set... Rob - Voice of the South (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) I could be wrong, but I think that has been there for some time. The Mars set was planned to be released as a Mindstorms add-on from the start, along with Extreme Creatures and Robo-sports, but for some reason, the Mars kit never came out. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Cats and pigeons... —John VanZwieten
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| | | | | | Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:rVJVONmtD15I4D1...4ax.com... (...) mars (...) set (...) with (...) came (...) I think the delay was caused by technical difficulties, mostly with the camera hardware. It's one thing to (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Server being voluntarily taken down (was: Re: Cats and pigeons...) —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) I don't think this is relevant. This is a part of why we have URLs: to locate resources without having to "burrow". As an example, my Mindstorms stuff is at <URL:(URL), which you can't get to from the "root" at <URL:(URL). Does this mean it's (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Server being voluntarily taken down (was: Re: Cats and pigeons...) —James Brown
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| | | | (...) Never claimed otherwise. I was adding to Larry's point. He said (paraphrase warning) 'anything on the public side of a firewall is public', and I added 'not only are these on the public side of a firewall, but they've provided links to them' (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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