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| | | Jake McKee wrote in message ... (...) This is great that Jake is letting us know about this stuff, but is it appropriate in lugnet.announce? I have deliberately *not* been announcing my commercial stuff in .announce because I thought it was not OK. (...) (24 years ago, 10-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: 6769 Fort Legoredo on sale at Shop At Home!! —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | (...) Good question. I don't think it is. I saw it, did a double take, got a little grated by it, but figured it was an honest mistake and given the tension lately with LD, I figured it best not to say something...for now. (...) --Todd (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: 6769 Fort Legoredo on sale at Shop At Home!! —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | (...) It's not, no... But fortunately, there's a simple solution for future things of this type -- LD can (please) post to the .announce.lsahs group instead of the main .announce group. The .announce.lsahs group is specifically set up for LEGO Shop (...) (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | Re: 6769 Fort Legoredo on sale at Shop At Home!! —Mark Papenfuss
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| | | | | | All in all, what does it really matter???? I mean, they made a SPECIAL effort to offer these sets to US FIRST - they could have easily ignored us alltogether, but no - They gave us first shot. I would definitely say this belongs in all of the (...) (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 6769 Fort Legoredo on sale at Shop At Home!! —Mark Sandlin
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| | | | | | | (...) There are specific guidelines set up on the newsgroups to keep things orderly. If people posted anywhere they liked, things would get rather messy and confusing. When I was a newbie, I posted an auction announcement to .space, and people (...) (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: 6769 Fort Legoredo on sale at Shop At Home!! —Charles Eric McCarthy
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| | | | | | | | (...) ... (...) Mark S., I thought it was OK as long as the X-Real-Life-Name identifies you. If I look at the full headers for his post, I see: X-Real-Life-Name: Mark Papenfuss /Eric McC/ (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: 6769 Fort Legoredo on sale at Shop At Home!! —Mark Sandlin
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| | | | | | | | (...) My mistake. It didn't show up on my newsreader, but it shows on the web interface. ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 6769 Fort Legoredo on sale at Shop At Home!! —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | (...) For us AFOLs, it was an incredibly nice thing to do. And for LD, it's a nice way to gather a data point on our buying power. It's a win-win. But... (...) Actually, it doesn't really belong in the main .announce group -- it was an unsolicited (...) (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 6769 Fort Legoredo on sale at Shop At Home!! —Kevin Wilson
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| | | | | | mfuss903 wrote in message ... <a great deal of stuff...> Just to clarify, my message asking whether Jake's post was appropriate in .announce was directed ONLY to lugnet.admin.general, not to lego.direct, and the admin posts don't appear on the main (...) (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: 6769 Fort Legoredo on sale at Shop At Home!! —Rose Regner
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| | | | Well on the same note the post doesn't belong in BST either. Rose Kevin Wilson wrote in message ... (...) my (...) (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: 6769 Fort Legoredo on sale at Shop At Home!! —Mark Papenfuss
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| | | | (...) Why not?? I mean true, it is not for trade - but it is for SALE and you can BUY it - right? I think sometimes you people have lost sight of the forest, AND are missing the trees while you are at it. R-E-L-A-X !!!! (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: 6769 Fort Legoredo on sale at Shop At Home!! —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | (...) Sounds like you're the one who needs to relax. Read Mark's post... probably better than I could write in reply to you. Dude, chill out, the inflammatory nature of your messages telling people to relax is pretty durn hypocritical. -Tim (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: 6769 Fort Legoredo on sale at Shop At Home!! —Rose Regner
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| | | | Please read the group discussions before you post such rudely written posts. Note Buy-Sale-Trade; "Community trading post, items wanted, items for straight sale (no auctions), experiences, market analysis, etc." With the emphasis on community (or (...) (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: 6769 Fort Legoredo on sale at Shop At Home!! —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Thanks for that clarification, Rose, but now you got me wondering, do Guild of Bricksmiths announcements (of straight sale stuff, not stuff like initial unit auctions, which get announced in .auctions like all other auctions) belong in (...) (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: 6769 Fort Legoredo on sale at Shop At Home!! —James Brown
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| | | | | (...) Hmm, good question. I'm not Todd, but I'd be inclined to set the (fuzzy) line at the (indistinct) top edge of cottage industry. How's that for precision? (...) It's a difference of degree, technically, but I'd call it kind, at least for Lugnet (...) (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: 6769 Fort Legoredo on sale at Shop At Home!! —Rose Regner
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| | | | | Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ... (...) initial (...) incorporated. (...) I don't know, but DYA got reprimanded for posting to BST. I thought that "real" stores weren't suppose to post in BST. Maybe Todd needs to update the BST descriptions. (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: 6769 Fort Legoredo on sale at Shop At Home!! —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | (...) I agree. James said "upper end of cottage" as a fuzzy line. I am nowhere near that boundary. Todd (sort of) said "automation with no human contact" as the demarcation for shopping. Judgement is required here, since when you call one of the (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: 6769 Fort Legoredo on sale at Shop At Home!! —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) For posting in BST? That's not quite how I remember it...I thought it was for excessive multiposting -- across multiple themed groups. I guess there was a discussion about BST once... (URL) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: 6769 Fort Legoredo on sale at Shop At Home!! —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) If it's a straight sale, then .market.buy-sell-trade; if it's an auction (i.e., soliciting progressively higher bids from earlier bids), then market.auction, if you're a retailer (e.g., BusyBee, TRU, Target, S@H, etc.) or you're posting (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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