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Re: Virtual Flower Delivery Service
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lugnet.general
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Date:
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Tue, 16 Feb 1999 11:25:39 GMT
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In lugnet.general, talonts@vfaq.com (Tom Stangl, VFAQman) writes:
> Well, in his defense, he was right.....sort of...
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> How often do you see spam in a newsgroup? And how often do you follow a
> link in a spam to check it out? I sure as heck don't.
But how often do you post a public reply to a message containing a
prominently located URL without checking out what's on that URL first?
Anyway, no harm done. Anyone could've mistaken it for spam, as you point
out.
> The ONLY reason I followed it to check it out was because Suzanne posted
> it. If if would have been non-Lego, I was prepared to flame the hell out
> of her.
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> If it were anyone else (even Larry or Mike) except Suzanee or Todd, I would
> have never followed the link.
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> I think Suzanne's wording could have been a bit better to note to people
> that it WAS Lego related. Nothing in the original post said so.
Hmm, good idea for next year. I guess we think of Legopolis as such a real-
life thing (anthropomorphized, that is) that we tend to forget that it's
not.
Just as a cat or a dog hates it when they learn that they're not actually a
person, so do minifigs. (Shhh... :)
--Todd
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