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(...) Jeremy, with all due repect, you're missing the point. If heads of the LEGO Company wanted their retailer catalog to be publicly available, they most certainly could publish it online all by themselves. But first, I think they would distribute (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It's not about what we might think they wouldn't mind, but what they don't want us to see? Whatever reason TLC have is fair enough. (...) I agree with the feeling, but as we haven't heard from Huw, calling it "insipid behavior" isn't really (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I think she was applying those words to the person who leaked the scans to Huw, not to Huw himself. Huw was only trying to be helpful. --Todd (25 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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Suzanne D. Rich wrote in message ... (...) but I (...) years. But (...) keeping (...) They (...) etc. (...) Risking retaliation of some sorts here are my thoughts. I don't know if Suzanne is a retailer , I assume she is not and I apologize if I am (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) In retrospect, that probably would have been a much better approach. As a matter of habit (for better or for worse), my style is to point out things as public replies when something feels urgent, because the lack of a reply in a thread leaves (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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Hi Suzanne (and everybody else who cares), I mostly agree with you but there are some points I do not entirely understand. First can anybody tell me why we suddenly have such a discussion but we did NOT have one in october when "the nameless beast" (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) This is a good argument for shutting down the Pause database here on Lugnet, Kevin's Brickshelf site, and the other similar Lego information sites out there. If TLC wanted old instruction scans or old set images, prices, etc. available on the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yeah, that's easy: Because Star Wars fans online make a living of trading leaked information every single day, and they'd laugh in someone's face if it was suggested that what they were doing made them look bad as a community. They also don't (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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R2 wrote in message ... (...) The reason (which I'm sure is "ok with TLC") that Suzanne has these catalogs is probably why she stated that she would not normally advertise the fact that she had them. I assume there is some form of sensitive (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Please keep in mind that this is a family-oriented newgroup ;-) -John Van BTW, I'm with ya, Todd and Suz, at least 51%. (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) /s/loser/luser/ But I don't really see any need to do so. Jasper (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) ---- (...) ---- From what little I know: retailers (the small shop kind) order from a typed list months in advance or else they prepare by requesting "one case of each of everything new ASAP." The pretty color catalog comes later, close to (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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