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Re: Cats and pigeons...
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Date: 
Sat, 11 Dec 1999 01:07:44 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
In lugnet.admin.general, Frank Filz writes:
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 site. Any web site like this should have an
internal test mirror, where all the new material is tested, and then, only
when ready to go live, is the stuff copied onto the live site.

I gotta say,man, this thing really spooks me.

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 machine, different ISP, different *town* (yes, I
commute).  To the best of my recollection, I have not browsed the European
catalogue from this computer for a *long* time - at least before the "new
lego.com" came up, probably much longer.

I'm stumped.  A Brown I may be, but an Encyclopedia I ain't.

James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Cats and pigeons...
 
(...) 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...
 
(...) 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...
 
(...) I gotta say,man, this thing really spooks me. --Todd (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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