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 / 40518
40517  |  40519
Subject: 
Re: Understanding Leaks
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 7 Jan 2003 20:50:39 GMT
Viewed: 
594 times
  
In lugnet.general, Bruce Hietbrink writes:
As to your examples, the first, second, and fourth would constitute "leaks".
These are supposed to be communications between Lego and the stores.  The
first two are scans of a catalog that was supposed to be sent to stores, and
the Marz site is for wholesale distribution (notice that the prices are for
crates of multiple sets).  The third one you mention (Kotoro Ono's report
from a Lego show) is not a leak, as this was a public show for fans.  It was
a mistake on Lego's part, though.  Apparently they weren't supposed to
display those sets, but once they did, it was an official Lego display, so
you can't really call it a leak.

Hm. Apparently I'm a bit more liberal in my categorizations, as Bruce does have
a valid point in LEGO/store communications.

A counterpoint to this, though would be while the first two could constitute
leaks, the Marz site would not...to a certain extent, placing anything on the
internet is basically opening up the item(s) for perusal by anyone, especially
if there is no security measures (like passwords) in place.


The definition of  "leak" at fbtb is anything that wasn't published in a
Lego publication for the general public (catalog, Lego Magazine, those
inserts that come in sets, etc), displayed at a Lego show (e.g. the annual
Toy Fair), published on Lego.com, or published with permission on another
site (e.g. fbtb.net).

Thanks for the clarification!

Joe Meno



Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: Understanding Leaks
 
(...) Joe, My definitions were more based on the usage at fbtb.net, where there is a strong "no discussion of leaks" policy. Bruce (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)

Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Understanding Leaks
 
Paul, The policy at fbtb is that there should be no discussion of leaks. The policy at lugnet, on the other hand, is pretty much anything goes. So feel free to discuss these here at Lugnet, but refrain from doing so on fbtb. As to your examples, the (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)

20 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