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    Re: Server being voluntarily taken down (was: Re: Cats and pigeons...) —James Brown
   (...) Agree with Larry here. If I can browse to it freely just by going to www.lego.com and clicking on links (and I can) - then it is public. NFF James (URL) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Cats and pigeons... —Todd Lehman
     (...) (Question) You can start at (URL) and see the same year-2000 pictures as the ones linked to in the list posted by Remy just by clicking links, without having to change the URL manually?? My understanding was that the only way to get to the (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Brown
      (...) 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)
     
          Re: Cats and pigeons... —Todd Lehman
       (...) 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)
      
           Re: Cats and pigeons... —Rob Hendrix
        (...) 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)
       
            Re: Cats and pigeons... —Todd Lehman
        (...) 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)
       
            Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Brown
        (...) 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)
      
           Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Brown
        (...) 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)
       
            Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Powell
         (...) JP (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
       
            Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Brown
        (...) them? Been there, done that. Closed and re-opened my browser. Logged out and back in to the firewall server. Now rebooting. James (URL) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
       
            Re: Cats and pigeons... —Rob Hendrix
        (...) 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)
       
            Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Brown
        (...) Not an option here at work. Standardized desktop and all that. James (URL) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
      
           Re: Cats and pigeons... —Lawrence Wilkes
        (...) 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)
      
           Re: Cats and pigeons... —Eric Joslin
        (...) 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)
       
            Re: Cats and pigeons... —Eric Joslin
        (...) 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)
       
            Re: Cats and pigeons... —Todd Lehman
        (...) THAT is like rilly rilly freaky dude. You're only 4 blocks away from me and you see these yet I don't. I'm accessing right now via javanet.com and you're accessing via thirteen.net, both presumably within a very close area, but of course they (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
       
            Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Brown
         (...) 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)
       
            Re: Cats and pigeons... —Eric Joslin
        (...) 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)
      
           Re: Cats and pigeons... —Frank Filz
        Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) The button is on the left, just below the array of age buttons. Now it is remotely possible that some ISP caching of pages is affecting things, but that seems unlikely. The other possibility is that you saw a (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
     
          Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Brown
       (...) Note: I've only done this for a small handful of sets - I have work to do this afternoon, in addition to following the brouhaha - so I don't know if the process works for *all* the sets. Note also: I've been having intermittent problems at (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
     
          Re: Cats and pigeons... —Frank Filz
        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)
      
           Re: Cats and pigeons... —Todd Lehman
       (...) I gotta say,man, this thing really spooks me. --Todd (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
      
           Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Brown
       (...) 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)
      
           Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Brown
        (...) 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)
       
            Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Brown
        (...) It worked! ;) James (URL) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
      
           Re: Cats and pigeons... —Todd Lehman
       (...) 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)
     
          Re: Cats and pigeons... —Shiri Dori
      (...) "Knight's Kingdom"? I don't see any Knight's kingdom links... (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
     
          Re: Cats and pigeons... —Tom Stangl
      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)
    
         Re: Cats and pigeons... —Eric Joslin
      (...) You sure can. www.lego.com Use the quick finder, choose catalogue. Click on Europe on the map. Choose System. There are a bunch of broken thumbnails, but they are the new themes. Click on the one next to the Ninja one, and you get the Knight's (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
     
          Re: Cats and pigeons... —Todd Lehman
      (...) 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)
     
          Re: Cats and pigeons... —Lawrence Wilkes
       (...) 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)
      
           Re: Cats and pigeons... —Shiri Dori
        (...) 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)
       
            Re: Cats and pigeons... —Tom Stangl
        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)
      
           Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Powell
         (...) But, they were there. I would think that makes Remy's post fine, and I think (again this is just personal feeling) that Todd, you should apoligise and retract your statement (at least part of it) (post 405 to announcements). Remy only posted (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
       
            Re: Cats and pigeons... —Todd Lehman
        (...) 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)
       
            Re: Cats and pigeons... —Rob Hendrix
         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)
        
             TLG official response may be coming (was Re: Cats and pigeons... —Larry Pieniazek
         (...) 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)
        
             Re: TLG official response may be coming (was Re: Cats and pigeons... —Rob Hendrix
          (...) <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)
        
             Re: TLG official response may be coming (was Re: Cats and pigeons... —John Matthews
         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)
       
            Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Powell
        (...) 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)
      
           Re: Cats and pigeons... —Rob Hendrix
        goto catalog, japan, system...Japan has four pirate sets...is that new? (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
      
           Re: Cats and pigeons... —Lawrence Wilkes
       (...) 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)
     
          Re: Cats and pigeons... —Eric Joslin
       (...) 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)
      
           Re: Cats and pigeons... —Lawrence Wilkes
       (...) 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)
     
          Re: Cats and pigeons... —James Brown
      (...) 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)
     
          Re: Cats and pigeons... —Frank Filz
       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)
    
         Re: Cats and pigeons... —Rob Hendrix
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: Cats and pigeons... —Steve Bliss
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: Cats and pigeons... —John VanZwieten
      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)
   
        Re: Server being voluntarily taken down (was: Re: Cats and pigeons...) —Matthew Miller
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: Server being voluntarily taken down (was: Re: Cats and pigeons...) —James Brown
   (...) 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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