 | | Re: www.legodirect.com <--- whats going on? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | In lugnet.general, Todd Lehman writes: <clarification> Thanks for that, Todd. I 100% think Suzanne did the right thing and further, I would say that given the position she's taken as having done it in order to secure it FOR TLC, and that her intent (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: www.legodirect.com <--- whats going on? —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | (...) Why? The internet is for more than talking about Lego. Legopolis-> leg-opolis -> Leg city. Perfectly reasonable name for a porn site. It's not like it was Lego-opolis. eric (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: www.legodirect.com <--- whats going on? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) It is outrageous because Susan had it... TLG asked her to give it up and said they'd be taking it over... many months later, her reg ran out, no one from TLG ever transferred it, and it lapsed, and someone else got it. (...) I know what it (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: www.legodirect.com <--- whats going on? —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | | (...) Ah. I missed that part. Apologies. That does make more sense. I was aware they had asked her to give it up (under the clause about domain names with "lego" in them) but was unaware that they had said they were going to pick it up. (...) What (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: www.legodirect.com <--- whats going on? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) Just believing my own PR, I guess... :-) ++Lar (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: www.legodirect.com <--- whats going on? —Tony Kilaras
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| | | | (...) their (...) Typical bureacrat corporation stuff here. Really , if you want to talk about outrageous, I think it's outrageous that TLG isn't funding LUGnet. (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: www.legodirect.com <--- whats going on? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | Tony Kilaras wrote: I think it's outrageous that TLG isn't funding LUGnet. There's merit to your suggestion. But I think there's a faction who would say that it's a good thing that TLC isn't funding it, as that helps keep LUGnet BY fans and FOR (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: www.legodirect.com <--- whats going on? —Tony Kilaras
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| | | | (...) Well, Todd has taken a hard line against perceived copyright infringements and has banned profanity, so I don't think that LUGnet would be all that different if it was in fact bankrolled by Lego. (...) That's a shame, it really is. But I'm not (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: www.legodirect.com <--- whats going on? —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | (...) Yeah, we're going on what, two solid months of nothing but silence? Sure, Lego Direct isn't fully operational. Sure, we can't do bulk ordering yet. But total silence? What does that mean? Whole thing's been scrapped? All will be well if we (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: www.legodirect.com <--- whats going on? —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | (...) Not That Larry Needs Defending™ [or Todd for that matter] but I'm dropping the flag and calling a foul. Since when does requiring a common-denominator of civility and respect on one's own server make one a corporate shill? Profanity and (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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