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Re: Shop At Home catalog Engine Shed
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 3 Jan 2002 23:47:52 GMT
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"James Brown" <galliard@shades-of-night.com> writes:
> If someone feels that a post in a .lego group has relevance to a particular
> theme or group (whether it be train or castle or what-have-you), why
> shouldn't they cross-post it? If that someone happens to be a LEGO employee
> without posting priviledges, why shouldn't they ask for the cross-post?
If you're adding comments to the message as you add the other
newsgroup(s), then I think it's reasonable. But to just crosspost it
for the sake of spreading the word is in violation of the spirit of
the lugnet.lego.* restriction.
Whether you agree with that restriction or not, it's the policy of
LUGNET to allow Lego employees to make TLC announcments only in the
lugnet.lego.* groups; if someone acts as an accomplice enabling such
announcements to be made outside those groups, they are violating the
policy just as much as if Brad Justus had posted an official
announcement in .trains groups using a personal account.
Discussion of the stuff being announced, however, is something of a
different matter IMHO, and should be allowed. I would think that
commentary by non-LEGO personnel about the announcement, even if the
entire announcement is quoted by reference, is a different kettle of
fish entirely.
> In this particular case, the discussion that followed was by far more
> appropriate to .trains (where can I get parts to build that train shed) or
> .dear-lego (please make set x) than it was to lego.direct.
If the initial message in that discussion, quoting the announcement
and (this is important) adding the poster's opinions, was crossposted
(with FUT set accordingly), then that shouldn't be in violation of the
policy IMO.
--Bill.
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William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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