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 / 28863
28862  |  28864
Subject: 
Re: A letter to Todd
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct
Followup-To: 
lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Mon, 19 Mar 2001 05:48:37 GMT
Viewed: 
68 times
  
In lugnet.admin.nntp, Kyle D. Jackson writes:
[...]
can.)  At any rate, TLC was very quick to pull rank and serve LUGNET
with a legal order that the information be purged from the LUGNET
servers.  There was no friendliness about this.  It was an order that
had to be obeyed to avoid the legal consequences.  It forced Todd
to do what I believe was a first for LUGNET: censor messages.  This
all occurred against the backdrop of some promising and friendly
exchanges between LEGO Direct and LUGNETers.

Just a couple of nits to pick:  One, TLC can't "pull rank," although I'm
sure that's not literally what you meant.  Two, editorial control was not
exercised, so "censor" isn't really accurate.

--Todd



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: A letter to Todd
 
Oh, Todd, don't get into THAT argument again ;-) You deleted articles. That's censorship to any sane individual. You were right in doing so, but quit trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear - it will still be a pig's appendage to anyone with (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
  Re: A letter to Todd
 
(...) Yeah, I wasn't really happy with either of those two phrases. For "pull rank" I just meant that TLC will not hesitate to execute actions required for their business, and depending on how they do that, it can be pretty unpleasant for the rest (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

Message is in Reply To:
  Re: A letter to Todd
 
(...) I second that! And add Suzanne's name there too! :] (...) Yes Mark, they do have "some real power". I'd rather not drag this major incident up, but I feel it is relevant---some may have forgotten it, and others may have never heard about it: A (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)

45 Messages in This Thread:

















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

This Message and its Replies on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

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