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Re: I'm back...
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 25 May 2001 05:44:03 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Jaco van der Molen writes:
> <this nyme is being used because I was once again banned, complain to
> my ISP if you like, however that's only likely to result in me using a
> proxy server, something my ISP has no control over. I'm gonna speak
> my piece, whether anyone likes it or not.>
Hence the futility of banning/repeat-cancelling Mr Moulton. I would never
defend his past actions, but I see no point in continually bringing them up.
Especially when he actually has some good stuff to show off, despite the
rat-baggage. Who knows? He may even turn into a useful member of the
community...
> > James Jessiman was an AFOL who worked on a program for drawing lego pieces
> > etc..and to make instructions out of them. The result of his work is found
> > at http://www.ldraw.org , a commonly used program for rendering lego creations.
> >
> > Sadly, James died a few years ago at a young age. As a way of remembering
> > and saying thanks, the LDRAW homepage has a memorial for James and for the
> > work that he began.
> >
> > Simon has put a link on his own page (see the original link) with the words
> > "James Jessiman is Dead...deal with it NOW". Despite that it links to the
> > memorial page, its a rather tactless way of doing it.
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> No, no, NO! It DOESN'T link to the memorial page, it links to the
> image archive of cheap Inet statuary. I have no problems with the
> memorial page, in fact I think it's really good. What I'm against is
> the cheapening of his death and the ideal to turn him into a demigod
> of the Lego community. In fact, if the image archive is taken off,
> I'll take the link button off my site. The memorial has NOTHING to do
> with this at all.
I disagree with the "demi-god" comment, and I think the "deal with it NOW"
banner is in atrocious taste. I'm not part of the ldraw community, and I
suppose how they remember James is their choice. However [very deep breath],
I think Matthew has a reasonable point.
Some of the memorial images are respectfully sombre, some less so. I'm not
convinced that the memorial page needs a dozen alternative image links. And
I think some effort should be made to get his year of birth correct on all
of them.
But then I didn't know James, I don't know what he would have wanted and I
don't intend to antagonise a particularly productive sub-community. If the
image archive stays, it's not the end of the world. And if Matthew hangs
around LUGNET, that's not the apocalypse either.
--DaveL
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| (...) I agree there's a point there, but there are also more polite and appropriate ways of going about making that point. Anyways, I cleaned it up a bit. Didn't fix the dates (yet) because that'll take a little bit more time. If anyone wants to do (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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