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(...) Does it matter if they make a profit? If someone is going to go to a store and pick up some discounted set as a favor for someone, what's so terrible about them making a couple bucks on the deal? I think that very few AFOL's actually take in (...) (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Since I've been out of it for a while, can you elaborate on what changed for the worse and how? Thanks... Lou (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Unless you sign YOUR posts as "news admin" or something similarly official, I certainly do wonder when they are official or unoffical, so yes, I agree. ++Lar (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Todd, You just can't say "OK" or "thank you" can you? Mark did what you asked from him, even though it was unnecessary and not really called for, but yet he did what you asked. I would, without a doubt, say he is the bigger man now. You have (...) (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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Sorry this is quite a bit more than a couple of days. I guess we all got a bit distracted by our other discussion... (...) I guess as long as a lugnet.org group remains I am not to worried about this. (...) That sounds like it might be a little bit (...) (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) That's hard to judge until a few months have passed. I have a very good feeling about this. (...) It's impossible to answer that question completely, since it's a fuzzy thing. However, we should trust that Brad and his people will do the right (...) (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: A letter to Todd
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(...) Nice try. --Todd (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Hmmm. That'd be Perl, right? 8?) ROSCO FUT: .off-topic.fun (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) You know, you have a good point here. I also generally take the popular media to be my arbiter of good taste, moral authority, and, by and large, a reliable measuring stick of normative and appropriate behavior. Thanks for clearing that one (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Mark Papenfuss writes: <snip a whole heap of well gathered information> I'm preferring to take a very simple approach. It's Suzanne and Todds site. We're participants, but not the authority that regulates this site. If Lego is (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) To each his own. We all should be VERY grateful to Todd and Suzanne for all they have done. Shame on those who have nitpicked what Todd has created for all of us to enjoy. When I came ot of my dark ages and discovered LEGO trains, I was (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) See, you put me in a spot that I am sure I will get bashed on no matter what I do here. If I do post here, I will be re-entering a thread I said I was out of, and If I do not reply then it will be used against me as I refused to apolisize. So (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Thank you. On your way out, would you care to apologize to everyone for your use of profanity here last night? --Todd (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) I'm not going to address whether or not you were acting like you were thirteen, such a discussion can only be insulting either to you, thirteen year olds, or both. But you weren't "polite and respectfull." Note Todd's examples and there were (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Rose, I'm not positive what it is you're asking, but if it's whether the marketing aspects of Bionicle had anything to do with the decision to rigidize policy constraints on official LEGO postings here, no, it didn't. It just helped it happen (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) This has been explaind to you time ( (URL) )and time ( (URL) )again. If you choose not to listen then that is your call. But this is really getting stupid and old, if you really want to use a word to judge somebody then fine - be closed minded (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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Todd Lehman wrote in message <3ab3ab27.200292832@...et.com>... (...) merit (...) and (...) talk (...) (lugnet.Lego.*) (...) directly (...) I personally despise these marketing driven toys that manufacturer's are coming up with. Pokemon, BIONICLE (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) I'm not sure which way I'll go on this one. For the most part, I don't see any harm to *LUGNET* or its members for Lego Reps to post 'officially' to other groups. I only really see potential harm for TLC, or the reps themselves. (...) I rather (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) To Todd, Thanks for this explanation. I hope that everyone reads it. I've clipped it only a little in hopes that more people will find it and read it. Based on that post, I have changed my mind and support your decision. I suspect it helps (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) [...] (...) The problem this email address filter does not (and cannot) solve and actually exacerbates is the "is this an official voice of TLC or not" problem. Presuming it becomes simple for Jake and Tomas to post using their secret AFOL (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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