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(...) Actually, no, it's not possible to effectively forge messages here. Yes, you can post messages using someone else's name (easily, even). But it is _not_ possible to forge the originating IP in Todd's logs. Which means that even though _we_ (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | "If it were my toy company..."
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[crossposted to .dear-lego & .general; followups to .dear-lego] Brad Justus, Senior Vice President of LEGO Direct, wrote in (URL): "We want to be a company with whom you want to be involved. We want to be the company you'd like us to be. And to do (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
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(...) Uhm.. Uhm.. can we play? I've heard of at least 6 confirmed memberships from the Netherlands. Jasper (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
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(...) In other words, the 12V features + DCC to the 9V line. I want. Badly. Jasper (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Get a load of THIS bozo...
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Oops. Yes, of course. I know nothing of the real Brad, who (supposedly?) works for LEGO. But the troll who posted to rtl in Brad Justus' name was Chris McKinney, who has been hanging about, wondering what kind of money she can get for her LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Get a load of THIS bozo...
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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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| | Get a load of THIS bozo...
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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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| | Re: What the F.......
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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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| | Deja.com & Switchboard as sleuth tools
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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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| | Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
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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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