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Thanks. I knew what I was doing when posting the message and just thought you should know it can be done (which you probably do). While I did it under good intentions, some else could do it under bad intentions and if it can be done, someone will do (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) Dan: Just so you know, what you just did is grounds for removal. Please do not ever do it again, even to make a point. Obviously you meant well but this is an extremely important rule not to violate. To repeat from the discussion group T&C, (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) Lego DOES have an email address. I have it and have sent them email. They just don't give it out because they don't want to be flooded with email from people who want to buy 2 purple 2x2 tiles or something else. (...) I don't think you really (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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If this idiot from Mediaone.net was a little smarter, he could have faked Brad Justus's post even here as I just did: (URL) please delete the above message. I think everyone should be assigned a password to post here so you couldn't impersonate (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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In response to myself: I WAS WRONG. LEGODIRECT AND BRAD JUSTUS (The legitimate one) DO EXIST. Just wanted to help clear this up. The hoax is the retraction posted to RTL, not the posts to Lugnet from Brad Justus. Note: I will not be deleting my (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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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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(...) and (...) POKEMON LEGO!!!?????? *runs to bathroom, comes back wiping mouth* urrgghh....just the thought made me barf.....I don't think TLC would want to do Pokemon.....It's just a fad and will probably end up like POG (hopefully).....*shudder* (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) and (...) POKEMON LEGO!!!?????? *runs to bathroom, comes back wiping mouth* urrgghh....just the thought made me barf.....I don't think TLC would want to do Pokemon.....It's just a fad and will probably end up like POG (hopefully).....*shudder* (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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This is great! I want to tell you this: I live in Sweden, and many things in the U.S. are not available here. I´d like a more even distribution of LEGO everywhere and not just the US. Brad Justus skrev i meddelandet ... <SNIP> But here’s a little (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Brad Justus (legodirect@lego.com) wrote: : To LEGO enthusiasts everywhere: : We cannot tell you how excited we are to be working with you all. We hope you : are equally encouraged by the renewed commitment we are making to you. We look : forward to (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Actually, that's not what I was refering to. Your messages were appearing in my newsreader (MSOE) in double-sized font. They look fine on the web interface I'm using now though. Wierd. -John Van (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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