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Matthew Miller wrote, commenting on Lego's Scala marketing: (...) And about how to buy stuff. After all, isn't that what life's all about - buying stuff? Gotta get them started young... Sometimes I despair when even Lego does this! Kevin (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.scala)
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| | Re: Lugnet's security (Was: Re: What the F.......)
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Matthew Miller wrote in message ... (...) he is (...) in (...) I've thought about this many times in the past, and realize no test is at all necessary. When I post to Lugnet from work, I post using my Mindspring userid (which is what I've (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lugnet's security (Was: Re: What the F.......)
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(...) He did post it in the test newsgroup. And it _was_ just a test. (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Brad Justus is real
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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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| | Re: Brad Justus is real
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Todd Lehman writes: [snip] (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Out of curiosity, Brad, is there going to be a press release about LEGO Direct in the near future? It just occurs to me that it would be a very postive thing to have appearing in the press on the heels of the Fortune Magazine award (as well as the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Lugnet's security (Was: Re: What the F.......)
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(...) Ummm...Can't we just let Todd do his thing and assume that he knows what he is doing? No offense, Dan, but that was a strange thing to do -- especially in light of the RTL post from (I hope) an imposter. Its one thing to have an honest and (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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| | Brad Justus is real
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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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| | Re: Lugnet's security (Was: Re: What the F.......)
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(...) Yes, obviously. That's why the rule in the T&C. --Todd (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What the F.......
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(...) Hear Hear. (...) The only defence we've got may be just that - some measure of traceability of messages that are posted. As for a)why someone would do this, and b)how it can be prevented, I don't think there are real answers to those questions (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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