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Subject:	Re: Lego Direct (was Re: Georgia LEGO Outlet is Cool!)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general
Date:	Tue, 28 Mar 2000 23:51:54 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: > Wow, this has really gotten out of hand. Many complaints about language and > name-calling, etc. TomS & RichardM --> blocked from posting to .dear-lego > until they can calm down. Take the debate elsewhere -- name calling and > heated debates aren't what .dear-lego is there for. Okay. Fair enough, the Terms of Use being what they are. Sorry about the language, Folks. But they are just words, after all. Tom and I could have done far worse. I think we only hit the heights of vulgarity and not even outright obscenity -- try as we might... "It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At . . . moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon." -- Alice James (1848-92), U.S. diarist, sister of Henry and William James. Letter, 12 Dec. 1889 to her brother, psychologist William James (published in The Diary of Alice James, ed. by Leon Edel, 1964). One thing though, how long shall this banishment last? Dear Lego is my favorite subcategory! =) -- Richard

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		Re: Lego Direct (was Re: Georgia LEGO Outlet is Cool!)
(...) Dunno. You do have some interesting points, and I think it's great that you have such obvious passion. My advice (which you can do whatever you want with :)), would be to try and focus it though - calling respected community members slithering (...) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

		Re: Lego Direct (was Re: Georgia LEGO Outlet is Cool!)
(...) Langauge aside, .dear-lego isn't the place to stir up a big off-topic[1] commotion like that. I'll bet you could stir up the same commotion in .off-topic.debate or .market.theory and not get complained about by half a dozen or more people. (...) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !

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		Re: Lego Direct (was Re: Georgia LEGO Outlet is Cool!)
(...) Wow, this has really gotten out of hand. Many complaints about language and name-calling, etc. TomS & RichardM --> blocked from posting to .dear-lego until they can calm down. Take the debate elsewhere -- name calling and heated debates aren't (...) (24 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !

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