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(...) Welcome to the dark side of the internet, Brad. Please don't let this get you down or spoil you on our community. (...) Mediaone.net's abuse department should be contacted about the impersonation, with extremely vehement complaints, at the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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The first message appeared to have come from another isp, interport.net, not mediaone.net, although the original never appeared on my news server so I can't get a look at the complete headers (only what dejanews provides). It's possible that this (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Let me stop this right now. Whoever posted claiming that LEGO Direct is a scam was not me; and the sentiment expressed in the post could not be more wrong. LEGO Direct is a very real undertaking of The LEGO Company and we are very committed to it -- (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego) !
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"Brad Justus" wrote stuff about Lego Direct being a scam In the first instance, the posts to Lugnet and rtl were more or less simultaneous, yet there has been no post to Lugnet. One wonders if this might be because Todd's moderation would have (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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If someone can decode all this and do a DNS lookup on the IP listed.. Here's the full header from that message. Notice complaints to abuse@mediaone.net it's a cable modem setup. so he's probably able to change his server name on the fly. Path: (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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WE HAVE ALL BEEN SHAFTED!!!...!!! How gullible are we all--I guess very much so. After all, the email address looked official enough. And we all want our greatest wishes to come true. But I think we all got burned!!!! I personally did not post a (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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That is bad, though since I'm taking Sociology this semester, I have to look at how the culture of where this company exists is much different than ours in the US. You notice how those products do sell better in europe than the US, and you can be (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.scala, lugnet.general)
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Has anybody read this yet? It was posted on RLT and I'm just quoting it: Subject: Thanks for your input (...) "The text beginning with ">" is not mine but somebody else's." (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) That's ao awful! I can't believe they really wrote that! (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.scala)
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The basic existence of a special dumbed-down and pinked-up segment of the LEGO universe designated for girls (and the corresponding boys-only restriction for Technic and even System) is bad enough, but check out this quote from the Scala web site: (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.scala, lugnet.general)
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