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(...) I don't beleive *most*. *Many* maybe, but the world is large (even if some USAmericans seem quite ignorant of it) -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (21 years ago, 1-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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I'm asking the Adventurers fans and the MHoF fans to help me on this. I'm trying to stop a cheater that is mass-voting for Harry Cane. If he/she doesn't stop it, I'll have to disqualify the Adventurers series. I know who this person is. However, (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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(...) Hey, nothing wrong with a little lobbying, is there? Electioneering is the American way. Personally, I like the good-spirited debates and taunting about which minifig should be put in that we've seen in the past (esp. between .Space and (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) The "american-way" isn't MY way, as I'm neither American nor American-wannabe. There is, mind you, something wrong about electioneering. The MHoF voting process should be a choice based on more than a "I-Like-This-Theme" factor. Systematically (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Christian Lindblad has emailed me concerning this issue. He is NOT the one mas-voting, although he was the one inciting people to vote for Adventurers on his website. Therefore, I apologize to have thought it was him. All the facts I had (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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(...) neither, apparently, is a sense of "humour" or fun. LEGO is a TOY (see below) (...) id' wager most LUGnet users are (...) if you change your mind, be sure to come in illegally - you'll get a green card faster... :-) (...) You seem to confuse (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) A quick Whois search on ARIN yielded this: OrgName: Qwest Communications OrgID: QWDL Address: 950 17th Street Address: Suite 1900 City: Denver StateProv: CO PostalCode: 80202 Country: US NetRange: 63.152.0.0 - 63.159.255.255 Maybe you could (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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(...) I've stopped reading your post about here... I didn't realize your post was a joke. Anyway, I am not perfect in understand some "jokes" in English and this one flew past me. However, on your "this a just a toy" sentence, I agree. But it (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) However, I'd be curious to see the Demographiocs of Lugnet members. Anyway, it is true that many US AFOLs think they are alone... Terry (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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(...) Interesting. I didn't know how to precisely ocate a IP before. Anyway, if you see this building explose in a few days, don't blame me, I didn't do it :-) Terry (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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(...) Since you don't live in the US, you probably don't know that Qwest is a fairly large ISP. This means that the person abusing your voting system is probably a customer of Qwest. Another quick search yielded this email address to thier abuse (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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(...) Terry, Sorry - I re-read my last post and it came off a bit, er, grouchy... Bad day at work. But, the point was, A, this (Lego hobby, MHoF, etc) is all in fun, and B, people on LUGNet are going to lobby, electioneer, whatever you want to call (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general, FTX)
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Well, I would gladly encourage people to talk about the election of the MHoF and the candidates. I've posted many messages here to let people know about it and I am glad to see referrers to my site that I had never heard of before, some from Japan, (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general, FTX)
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"James Wilson" <wilson_j_s@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:HrEB4q.Iow@lugnet.com... (...) You'd loose that bet. A brief scan of the members country page tells us over 800 members are non US (compared to around 1500 US), and bearing in mind the site (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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(...) Then there is certainly a problem. I have often seen posts in specific forums urging people to vote for a fig in their particular theme. You almost encourage that yourself by posting to the different Lunet newsgroups saying "these figs from (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) As I already said, maybe I don't correctly understand the work electionneering, but what I meant was that I don't want people linking to my site with the express message to "vote for Mr. X". Of course, here on Lugnet as on other websites, I (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general, FTX)
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