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Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings
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lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.general
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Date: 
Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:30:40 GMT
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"Lorbaat" <eric@nospam.thirteen.net> writes:
In lugnet.admin.nntp, William R. Ward writes:
How about this: allow them to post as long as it is crossposted to at
least one lugnet.lego.* group.  That allows the train or legoland type
announcements to go there, and also appear in the lugnet.lego.direct.

Why allow them to spread marketing-type announcements all over Lugnet?  I don't
get it.

Some people posted that they were annoyed that they'd have to read
lugnet.lego.direct in order to find announcements that had previously
been in the train or legoland groups.  I was trying to address those
concerns.

FUT: lugnet.admin.nntp

--Bill.

--
William R Ward        hermit@bayview.com      http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/
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"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."-Groucho Marx



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings
 
(...) No, I understand that. I guess the question was more "why do we as a community want that?" I know I don't. I'd rather see them restricted. I'm glad, for example, that Jake's Train Contest announcement did *not* go in lugnet.trains, but rather (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
  Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings
 
(...) Not necessarily. If someone in the trains group (for example) feels that something a LEGO employee posted about trains was relevant to a particular train discussion, don't worry -- you'll still hear about it. It's also a lot more genuine buzz (...) (23 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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  Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings
 
(...) Why allow them to spread marketing-type announcements all over Lugnet? I don't get it. eric (23 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.general)

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