To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.generalOpen lugnet.general in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 General / 22874
22873  |  22875
Subject: 
Incorrect group posting [was RE: cartoonnetwork.com is having an online contest]
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Mon, 9 Oct 2000 03:38:29 GMT
Viewed: 
891 times
  
That's what I thought...
<puts on flame retardant suit>
Why then did you post to .general [being for general interest] and not to
.loc.us [for items of specific interest to US residents as opposed to the
rest of the world]?

After all...if I started saying that my local Kmart [neglecting to mention I
live in Victoria, Australia] had X-Wings for $15 on clearance, and everyone
around the US went to their local KMart and found that it wasn't there,
there'd be all sorts of complaints. Therefore, I only post things regarding
Aus in .loc.au and would expect others to act in a similar matter with their
posts.

In fact, Todd has agreed with this sort of observation in the past [yet done
little to police it :( ]:
http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.loc.au:494
[I see no difference between sales posts as mentioned, and others like this
competition.]

Todd: any chance you could do something to stop posts about US ONLY items of
info finding their way to areas that aren't US ONLY ? [maybe make it clearer
that .general is NOT for items of interest to ONLY 1 country, no matter what
percentage of lugnet users are from that country?]

Benjamin Whytcross <awaiting a major flame-ing>
BWhytcro@PacificAccess.com.au
Ph: (03) 9856 5282
Directory Technology Pty Ltd
1/436 Elgar Road,
Box Hill, 3128

Growing older is compulsory...Growing up isn't :-)


-----Original Message-----
From: Julie Krenz [mailto:dkrenz@mc.net]
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 2:18 PM
To: lugnet.general@lugnet.com
Subject: Re: cartoonnetwork.com is having an online contest


:-(
Sorry to report: "legal residents of the US only".
Julie

In lugnet.general, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
Would this only be open to US residents by any chance?

Benjamin Whytcross
BWhytcro@PacificAccess.com.au
Ph: (03) 9856 5282
Directory Technology Pty Ltd
1/436 Elgar Road,
Box Hill, 3128

Growing older is compulsory...Growing up isn't :-)


-----Original Message-----
From: Julie Krenz [mailto:dkrenz@mc.net]
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 1:50 PM
To: lugnet.general@lugnet.com
Subject: cartoonnetwork.com is having an online contest


Grand prize is a "mammoth mural" (6 feet x 8 feet!!) of
Dexter pouring some
green goo out of a beaker. Plus $2500 cash!!! Rules state
approx value is
$12,500.

That would be sooo cool (for awhile), we love Dexter here.
6feet x 8feet, I'm
not sure where'd we put it. lol!

First prize is Soccer Champ Challenge set.
Second prize is Adventures Island Hopper set.

One entry per 24 hour period.They limit it to one per person,
household or
email addy.


http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/promotion/dexterlego/index.html

Julie




Message has 5 Replies:
  Re: Incorrect group posting [was RE: cartoonnetwork.com is having an online contest]
 
(...) Ben is 100% correct here. No real harm done, but if this is really a US-only thing, then the discussion should migrate there. An initial announcement crossposting to .general and .loc.us probably ought to be tolerated if it has followups set (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Incorrect group posting [was RE: cartoonnetwork.com is having an online contest]
 
(...) Oh geez. (...) I suppose a US LUG couldn't post pictures of their meeting for people from all over to see in a non US-specific group, then, right? Simply on the basis that some people from other countries couldn't make it to the meeting. Get (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Incorrect group posting [was RE: cartoonnetwork.com is having an online contest]
 
(...) IF you forgot to say that you were in Oz when you saw it. On the other hand people post this all the time and others jump on it and arrange for some cross border buying and selling. But your example is flawed as that post belongs in (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Incorrect group posting [was RE: cartoonnetwork.com is having an online contest]
 
I don't really see how this is a "US Only" thing just because only "US Residents" can enter the contest. I personally went to look just to see the mural. Granted, not really a good picture of it there, but you don't hear me complaining that Julie (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Incorrect group posting [was RE: cartoonnetwork.com is having an online contest]
 
(...) If you feel like this (and I do have some sympathy, being in Canada it's irritating to find competitions are US only, or US vendors won't ship outside the US), why did you post the announcement of LegoOz 2000.7 to lugnet.general? Especially (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.admin.general)

20 Messages in This Thread:









Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR