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(...) Just to clarify (!) Robert is speaking about the so-called "scam Brad Justus", not the Real Brad Justus. Brad Justus is a real person, but someone forged a post in his name on the Usenet group rec.toys.lego yesterday. --Todd (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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Here's some mail I received this morning, after I figured out that the scam "Brad Justus" is really Chris McKinney. This can be independantly verified via deja.com, but examining the source on the scam message, and then running a search to see who (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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I've got email addresses inside of LEGO too, and I guarantee you Brad is for real. What he has expressed is the manifestation of many ideas I have heard before, privately. Make no mistake, LEGO direct is for real. KL (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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The following may be useful. 1. Deja.com (URL) Replace x.x.x.x with an IP address. 2. Switchboard.com (URL) Replace xxx with first name, yyy with last name. --Todd (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Yeah, I'm usually not a big fan of "me too" posts, but this is gonna be one, because I'm too tired for anything else. So: Yeah, me too. (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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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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(...) 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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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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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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(...) 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, 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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