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Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
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lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Fri, 10 Dec 1999 15:27:13 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Thomas Main writes:
Lorbaat wrote:
Until now, lugnet.dear-lego has been used as (to quote someone else)
essentially a "Dear Santa" group.  No doubt there will still be times that
somone wants to say (scream, whine, throw) something at TLC without really
expecting a response, or feeling that it really needs the attention of
someone at Lego Direct.

Like for kvetching or a whinging/whining?  :-)


If the charter of lugnet.dear-lego changes to being the
channel in which people are trying to communicate directly with Lego, then
they're deprived of a place to do it (which is not, of course, to say that
Brad et al. won't *read* lugnet.dear-lego, just that people posting there
aren't *necessarily* expecting a response or to be taken 100% seriously).

I agree totally :)

Hmm, sticky point.


If a new hierarchy is created, however, it leaves us with lugnet.dear-lego
for the purposes of railing away at the heavens or babbling about things
we don't expect to really see ("...but a James Bond theme would be so
cool!") without having to burden the good folks at Lego Direct with it.
And on top of that, it gives a fresh start to a new group where
(semi-)serious communication with Lego can begin.

I think a new group is certainly warranted for this occasion.  It would
indeed allow a "fresh start" and open a serious channel of communication.
I would sugegst a brand-new group too.

If Brad has no objections and could suggest a couple (or more, if he wants)
sub-group topic areas that he and/or his colleagues would find most helpful,
I'm all for turning it into a hierarchy and creating a new group, rather than
purely repurposing the existing group.

Can we think of some topical sub-groups of .dear-lego that we would like to
see?  I think somebody mentioned a "top 10" wish-list...if it wasn't a joke,
then I'll bet at least 3 of those are common enough wishes to warrant whole
separate groups for each.  I'm thinking of bulk purchases, for one.  IIRC,
when Jeroen Ottens posted in February, that generated something like 400
messages across 2-3 threads, and most of that ended up being about bulk
purchases as a wish-list item.  The AU/NZ inventory-scrapping thing a couple
months ago was another big deal.

Really, wow, though, it could conceivably expand to just about any number of
groups since there are so many things to talk about.  Depends I guess on how
"deep" LD wants to get into things......

--Todd



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
 
I would think as a minimum we'd need: dear-lego.bulk (requests to add a part to the service) dear-lego.rant dear-lego.sets (discuss what sets to rerelease, if that is ever a possibility - by rerelease, I mean the original set OR a remake like (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
 
(...) Just to clarify, my suggestion was meant to inspire the idea that a new hierchy be established (ie, "lugnet.lego-direct", "lugnet.lego-direct.bulk", etc), rather than skipping straight to segmenting lugnet.dear-lego. If the main group in the (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
 
(...) I agree totally :) (...) I think a new group is certainly warranted for this occasion. It would indeed allow a "fresh start" and open a serious channel of communication. I would sugegst a brand-new group too. (...) -- Thomas Main (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)

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