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Subject: 
Re: 2001 Set info
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 8 Aug 2000 21:09:08 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.lego.direct, Duane Hess writes:
> > Todd, as the big kahuna, has the right to censor messages at his discretion
> > since LUGNET IS afterall, his site. He's done it before, he's done it in
> > this case and I'm sure he'll have to do it again. It's in the best interest
> > of the LUGNET/TLC relationship.
> 
> Whoa whoa whoa!  Watch what you say, please.
> 
> For the record, I have *NEVER* censored a message here and never will.
> 
> Any message I have ever removed has been under one of four cases:
> 
> 1.  Someone is unable to cancel their own message for whatever reason and
>    specifically requests that it be admin-canceled, and gives the message
>    URL or quotes the message in a reply asking that it be cancelled --
>    leaving nothing up to interpretation.  This has happened about 10 or 20
>    times in the past 2 years.
> 
> 2.  By request from LEGO, as just happened yesterday, on legal grounds.
> 
> 3.  Someone accidentally posts two exact copies of the same message to a
>    group.  If I happen to notice a pair of messages like this, I do a 'diff'
>    and verify that they are identical, and remove the latter.  I do this by
>    hand because I haven't put in an automated way to do it.  This isn't
>    censorship because it's a purely technical process which corrects for a
>    purely technical -- it's currently too easy to accidentally click the
>    "Post Message" button twice on the same message in the web interface.
> 
> 4.  And of course, as a regular user, I have canceled a few of my own
>    messages containing typos and replaced them with newer versions.
> 
> Please note that asking someone to consider voluntarily cancel their own
> message (I think this has only happened twice), with an explanation as to why,
> is very very very different from censoring.
> 
> --Todd

<sheepish>

Um... OK... I didn't mean that the way it sounded. :-|

</sheepish>

-Duane



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  Re: 2001 Set info
 
(...) Whoa whoa whoa! Watch what you say, please. For the record, I have *NEVER* censored a message here and never will. Any message I have ever removed has been under one of four cases: 1. Someone is unable to cancel their own message for whatever (...) (26 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)

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