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Re: Brad Justus is real
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Sun, 12 Dec 1999 02:53:09 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Todd Lehman writes:
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> All,
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> To the best of my knowledge, Brad is the Real Thing. Here is some of what I
> am able to verify:
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> 1. According to my logs, Brad's most recent post (the one I am replying to)
> was posted from the same IP address as when Brad signed up initially for
> posting privileges.
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> 2. According to <http://ipindex.dragonstar.net/b/171.html>, Brad's IP
> address belongs to The LEGO Group, Denmark (NET-LEGONET).
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> I think that's all that needs to be said.
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> --Todd
For me, this hammers in why LUGNET is where I want
to be. You notice that the forged posts were posted to USENET and
not to here.
I'll continue to read r.t.l, but I'm quite fond of having
a stand alone news server with an administrator who's active
in protecting the health of the community -- the authentication and
tracability should continue to instill better behavior in the sort of
<s>loser</s> person who would otherwise would want to pull the same
sort of garbage here that they are used to being able to do on USENET.
--
jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily"
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| I thought the same thing, until someone showed how it could be done here as well. But your point is well taken. People here in LUGNET are on the whole mature adults who are responsible people. It is our little utopia (8 wide, of course;) based on (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) Brad, I'm very sorry this happened. It seems that cheap attention is easy to be had these days. I wish LEGO the best of luck in determining the source of the forgery on Usenet/rec.toys.lego and hope that it does not discourage the ongoing (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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