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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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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 (27 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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