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Re: So where is Brad's answer to the 2001 info?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 20 Aug 2000 22:49:59 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Miller writes:
> Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > - What is a "reasonable" amount of time? I would argue that for many things, a
> > "reasonable" amount of time does not allow the above sequence to be followed
> > given the speed at which information can propagate electronically.
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> However, it has an effect which the more draconian-seeming approach of going
> over the head of the original poster doesn't -- it makes other people more
> likely to voluntarily stop spreading the information.
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> If the original poster would have posted a message saying
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> "Oops; Lego tells me that the information I posted was supposed to be
> confidential. I guess Target screwed up. I've deleted my message
> containging the information. Please don't spread it anymore. Thanks."
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> then I would have been more instintively inclined to feel sympathetic. When
> the posts are removed in a way that feels like censorship (whether it really
> is or not), it makes people get a little thrill out of passing the info
> around despite the edict: makes us feel like we're the Underground
> Resistance stickin' it to the Man.
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> Interacting with people personally and respectfully goes a long way towards
> countering this. Acting in a heavy-handed manner to crush the information
> may actually make it spread faster.
Absolutely -- I agree! -- and when I said before that I preferred clear legal
requests to non-legal requests, I don't mean I prefer to heard heavy-handed
manners :) but just to know that it's a legal request for removal. It can be
perfectly polite (as LEGO always is, in my experience), but it's gotta clearly
be a legal request and not an appeal to sensibilities or anything fuzzy like
that.
--Todd
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