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Subject: 
Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings
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lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Fri, 16 Mar 2001 00:48:37 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Larry Pieniazek writes:
In lugnet.admin.nntp, Todd Lehman writes:
If a LEGO Company employee is also an AFOL, yes, they certainly _can_ post
in an unofficial capacity (i.e., as an AFOL on their own behalf and not
representing or doing business for LEGO) from their own private email
account

But not easily. They have to go toggle settings every time they want to post
in a different mode than they last posted.

Yes, I'm aware of that unfortunate side-effect.

And they can't even easily *discuss* it in admin.nntp because you blocked
access to it unless they jump through hoops to do it.

I was wrong, I guess it wasn't an oversight on your part to do that. My
apologies for assuming it was a slipup rather than a deliberate action.

Brad has our telephone number if he has administrative issues or concerns or
sees a compelling need for LEGO to be able to communicate with us there.

I'm baffled by this whole thing. I'm baffled by your choices of what
questions to answer and which ones to ignore, too. I'll ask again, more
pointedly.

What brought this on?

No one thing in particular.

Why this precipitious action with no discussion?

Because it wasn't necessary.

--Todd

Well, the upside is that we can more easily bash TLC for not responding to
us, I guess. (Were I a TLC employee who had to go through hoops to toggle
post settings, I'd leave my settings on my company supplied laptop set at
"AFOL" and never officially answer anything...)

++Lar



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  Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings
 
(...) Well, this "side-effect" (as you call it) has just caused the first trouble in the technic.bionicle group! An AFOL tried to reply to one of my postings, but since he has an *@america.lego.com address it wouldn't let him so I had to do that for (...) (24 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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  Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings
 
(...) But not easily. They have to go toggle settings every time they want to post in a different mode than they last posted. And they can't even easily *discuss* it in admin.nntp because you blocked access to it unless they jump through hoops to do (...) (24 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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