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Re: 1999 NL sets 4533, 4553, 4556, 4557
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lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.trains
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Date: 
Tue, 5 Jan 1999 00:37:10 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek <lpien@ctp.IWANTNOSPAM.com> writes:

Todd Lehman wrote:

I haven't the foggiest idea what your posting has to do with LEGO trains, or
where you see any postings from a John Neal anywhere on this server.

Subsequent to your post, in the chain of references, there is a post by
a John Neal which is identical to a post by Kurt. Both have uswest.net
addresses. Both posts consist of a quote of your post, prepended by the
phrase "lego trains" and nothing else.

It's interesting.  There are a whole ton of rejected messages from a John
Neal in the dead-articles file on the server -- none of them ever showed up
in a newsgroup prior to Kurt's posting.  The only way Kurt could have known
about them is if he and John were exploring the system together -- or if
Kurt and John were the same person.

Kind of made me wonder.  I did some more digging, I wrote to Kurt and asked
for an explanation.  He explained (for the record) that he and John were
differrent people.

I also happened to call John on the phone tonight and had a very enjoyable
talk.  He explained more about what had happened (details not really
relevant here) and appreciated the rationale behind the background checking.

So -- for the record, John Neil and Kurt Eilers -are- different people.

I'm not going to apologize for having asked Kurt/John to clarify or explain,
because it's part of my job to check out anything highly out of the ordinary
like this, but I do think I owe Kurt an apology for jumping to conclusions
so quickly and causing him to feel that I was harassing him in e-mail.  I'm
going to write Kurt now and apologize.

--Todd



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  Re: 1999 NL sets 4533, 4553, 4556, 4557
 
(...) Subsequent to your post, in the chain of references, there is a post by a John Neal which is identical to a post by Kurt. Both have uswest.net addresses. Both posts consist of a quote of your post, prepended by the phrase "lego trains" and (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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