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Re: German books available
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 9 Mar 2000 04:08:41 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Steve Bliss writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > Note that if you use these links, LUGNET gets referral dollars (with no
> > increase in what you as the purchaser pay for the books) which is a Good
> > Thing. And these seem like neato books too!
> >
> > However, just to play devil's advocate, if one wanted to be a hard case,
> > one could construe that because the lugnet refer is given, and because
> > it wasn't posted to a market group and it wasn't in a signature, this is
> > a flog... :-) I think it's vastly stretching the point to do that, so I
> > won't, except to illustrate how gray an area this is. If you think I'm
> > actually being critical you're not reading carefully enough. :-)
>
> Saw it, interpreted it that way, filed it under "not worth pursuing".
A couple things to note: (1) the message didn't break any of the Discussion
Group Terms & Conditions, and (2) it was, as far as I can tell, pretty well
targeted to the .books and .robotics.rcx groups, and I don't recall (although
I could be wrong) anyone else yet having mentioned that these books existed.
Personally, I would have excluded .general and included .loc.de in its place,
but even as it was, I don't think the message broke any rules...(did it?).
The T&C say that one mustn't "post information or material for commercial
purposes which is not reasonably related to LEGO toys" (these clearly were,
yes?) and that one mustn't "post or re-post a message excessively, especially
unsolicited advertisements, even if they are directly or indirectly related
to LEGO toys" (it was only posted once).
> > To repeat, I think this is perfectly fine but it might raise one eyebrow
> > somewhere in the universe, maybe.
Welp, hmm, if this sort of thing raises eyebrows, then it's probably best if
we (Suz & I) refrain from making these types of postings in the newsgroups.
I don't think there's anything wrong with it because it's perfectly within
the T&C, but if it _looks_ bad (even if it's not), then it's probably not
healthy.
Thanks for noting. I think you're right that it could look questionable...
probably best to err on the conservative side here.
--Todd
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| (...) Good points. Even though I raised my eyebrows (well, maybe half an eyebrow) at the message, I also realized that the main intent was not to make money for LUGNET. But I saw it as a grey-area thingy. The information was definitely news-worthy. (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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