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(...) Hmm, looks like Todd started to change his mind... Actually, if nothing else changes, I would lobby very strongly for TLC being able to make announcements in lugnet.announce.lsahs. What would be really cool is if they started posting the (...) (24 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I second that notion! Please, what makes you think this? And was it Lego coming here that made Lugnet "less fun"? what was it? That is the one million dollar question. Mark P. mfuss903@aol.com (24 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) On the flip side, what about (URL) seems you picked the somewhat nicer of the 2 posts. That thread has been thrashed to death. Was this what started it off? Mark P. mfuss903@aol.com (24 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) What about (URL) (Actually, I think Todd forgot, and has been busy. . .he's always busy, and seems to have acquired a great many more news messages to read. But this is potentially important.) TWS Garrison (24 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) OK, so this makes what - 3 people that *understand* this? Compared to the vast majority that do not *applaud* this action, hmmm. (...) So that makes this an un-official post and should we disregard it? You have *no* official capicity here in (...) (24 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Do tell. Seriously, what makes you think that? ++Lar (24 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Proposal: remove lugnet.dear-lego, or clarify its purpose
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(...) I agree. The landscape has changed since .dear-lego was created. I heartily invite you to share your thoughts on this thread which touches on that very subject: (URL) seems likely to me that .dear-lego isn't needed anymore as it just creates (...) (24 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Given the suddenness of it, I think I might be too and, actually, I wrote Brad Justus a personal apology for not having given him and his people a heads-up. (...) I agree with you. Hang in there, things will look up soon. --Todd (24 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: ME TOO
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I've been skimming the posts about this issue, and maybe I'm missing the point, but it seems to me that if LEGO didn't want its people posting on lugnet, they woud take care of that at lego. Often you hear about people workgin at such-and-such and (...) (24 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Maybe it's just me, but it doesn't seem like that big a deal to change your e-mail address back and forth to indicate official vs personal. It's just as easy to do that as to include a disclaimer when posting personal items. But, truthfully, I (...) (24 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) But, they are different than most. Their work life and home life (assuming they are AFOLs) coincide. I guess I've been on the other side. In the last two jobs I've had, one of my employeement conditions was that I not use my work e-mail in (...) (24 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) I don't think anyone has any issues with the desire to be clear about whether a post is personal opinion or an Offical Statement. But that can easily be done without restricting where posting happens, and in fact WAS being done, the T&C (...) (24 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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"Mike Faunce" <mike@faunce.com> wrote in message news:GABnBu.GK5@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) [ ... snipped ... ] When I first participated in LUGNET I did use my work e-mail. I started using a different e-mail address because all (...) (24 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) If you want to write a letter to TLC that they can read and respond to, why would you do it on LUGNET? Why not go to (URL) and do it there? Isn't that what that site is for? Why should LUGNET provide time, space, hardware, bandwidth, etc. to (...) (24 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) To further your own analogy: Why don't you use your work e-mail here? Probably because LUGNET is part of your "home life" and not your "work life". Your employeer may (or may not) want their name associated with LUGNET. Your employeer may even (...) (24 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Proposal: remove lugnet.dear-lego, or clarify its purpose
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I know there is a distinction between the dear-lego and lego.direct groups, but that distinction is a fine one, and it's probably something that a lot of people are confused by. The dear-lego group would have made a lot of sense when TLC wasn't (...) (24 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: New Group Proposal - LUGNET.LEGO.QA
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(...) I agree Eric. Recently I put a post about the lack of Blue 1 x 6 and 1 x 8 bricks available from Bulk sales at S@H, and some AFOL took the opportunity to promote his Brickbay page. I just hope that LEGO realizes I cannot order from this (...) (24 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Well it may have been intended that way at the begining but it definitely isn't that right now. I think if Todd implements the restrictions he mentioned here: (URL) there may not be a need for the group. Right now though .lego.direct seems to (...) (24 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: New Group Proposal - LUGNET.LEGO.QA
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(...) Is that not the point of .lego.direct? Jude (24 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) I agree with Lorbaat's observation that this looks more like Quality Assurance than Questions & Answers. However, given the ratio of questions to answers we typically find in lugnet.lego.direct, I think we can safely call it (...) (24 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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