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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



Message has 1 Reply:
  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 (...) (26 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 (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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