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In lugnet.dear-lego, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.announce, John MacDonald writes:
> > I encourage EVERYONE to go to
> > http://www.lego.com/myopinions
> >
> > Go to the
> > Buying BULK LEGO BRICKS
> >
> > After several page you get to this page.
> >
> > What other building tips or instructions would you like to have on
> > www.LEGO.com?
> >
> > Add the following
> >
> > Instructions for all Lego Sets
> >
> > When you are finished go to the
> > Tell a Friend
> > link and send e-mail to a friend suggesting that they go this site.
> >
> > If everyone does this, maybe Lego will start carrying the instructions for
> > Lego sets.
>
> While I applaud your sentiment I suspect that I'd rather the instructions
> stay on BrickShelf(tm) and that Lego(r) fund the bandwidth expense of making
> them available.
>
> If they were on the TLC site, there would be issues with quality. Many
> instructions on the BrickShelf site are rather poor quality. I delight in
> having those because the alternative is to have NONE... I suspect TLC would
> not post poor quality images. That's worse.
>
> Also while I am just speculating, I suspect it would cost TLC a lot more to
> actually host all the instructions and add new ones to their webservers due
> to their presumably somewhat (much?) more laborious development and release
> process.
Yep. If the instructions were on TLCs site, there would be much more exposure
and probably more utilization. 100GB/day ? Who knows.
> No, the better suggestion is to encourage TLC to cover bandwidth costs for
> BrickShelf. IMHO.
Hear, hear. That motion is seconded. That or for TLC to buy enough of the banner
ad space to make it work.
Ray
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