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Re: Brad Justus is real
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Tue, 14 Dec 1999 13:19:32 GMT
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I just want to thank 2 people here.
One is Brad for trying to clear this all up as quickly as possible. I find it
sad that some would want to disrupt something that we have all been hopeing for
for a long time. I too thought that Brads appearance was too good to be true
but I also knew that Todd goes to great lengths to make sure that the people
posting are who they say they are.
This gets to my second thank you and that is for Todd for making LUGNET what it
is. I personally found LUGNET before rec.toys.lego and while I have read
rec.toys.lego I rarely if ever check it. LUGNET is where I want to be because
it can be trusted (for the most part). I am sure that there might be a way to
trick Todd for a short time but I am sure he would catch on very quickly and
stop anything that was not right.
Unfortunately I think this puts a bit of a stain on our community but just the
fact that LUGNET was not as susceptible to this kind of hoax I think goes a
long way to creating a forum where future dialog between TLC and the LEGO user
communitiy can continue.
Thanks to both Todd and Brad for clearing this up as quickly as they did.
Eric Kingsley
The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/
In lugnet.dear-lego, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.dear-lego, "Brad Justus" <legodirect@lego.com> writes:
> > [...]
> > I am posting this response only to LUGNET, and ask Todd Lehman to verify, by
> > whatever means he has available, that I am me and my posting was legitimate
> > (note, please, that the false post was not made to LUGNET where such
> > verification can be made).
> > [...]
>
> Brad,
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> 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 efforts at LEGO Direct or look badly upon the community of fans at
> large.
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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).
>
> I think that's all that needs to be said.
>
> --Todd
>
>
> [followups to lugnet.dear-lego]
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| Eric Kingsley wrote in message ... (...) >I too thought that Brads appearance was too good to be true (...) My little squeak from New Zealand. I agree, that Brad offers lots of hope for AFOL's, even way down here. Hopefully we will get the same (...) (25 years ago, 14-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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