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In lugnet.admin.general, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> "Eric Kingsley" <star_wars_lego@yahoo.jawaspam.com> writes:
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> > I think this would be a great Idea. I would guess that it would just
> > be Names and Pictures so we would know who we were talking to.
>
> Personally, I would find such a page funny. I recently checked out a
> page with pictures from a LEGOfest and was amused to see what people
> looked like. But I would hardly say that such a page is needed. If
> anybody bothers to maintain such a site, sure, go ahead.
>
> > I would guess that you would have to be careful though because there
> > are wacko's out there and if you put up a picture of someone under
> > age and then people went back to lugnet you would see their E-mail
> > and then you have the potential for a bad situation. I hate to say
> > it but there are bad people in this world.
>
> You are probably right about this, regretably. Although LUGNET does not
> aim to be a place for AFOL's only (as far as I know), it appears that
> mostly adults use the resources. I recently thought about why this was
> so, and thought that children probably don't need the network: They
> already know many other kids who are into LEGO. I, on the other side,
> have no friends who play with LEGO, so I need to turn to the internet to
> find some...
>
> If anybody wonders what I look like, BTW, take a look at the first image at
>
> http://www.math.uio.no/~fredrigl/technic/creeping-crane/
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> I'll find a better image for a "Faces of LUGNET" page, though.
>
> Oh, and why is it that RTL has turned into a place to buy and sell
> things only, or so it seems? Now, it looks more like the other
> "rec.toys.*" groups in that way.
>
> Fredrik
How about a place where people submit minifigs that look like them? I have made
a minifig of myself, take a look here to see what I mean:
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dome/1888/me.jpg
This could avoid any "bad stuff," and nobody would ever know if you were an
AFOL or not.
Greg
citrusx__@yahoo.com
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dome/1888/
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| (...) In addition to pictures and names (and maybe email), you could potentially allow the user to associate a link with their pic. At the end of the link (on thier site) they could putwhatever contact/bio information they wished... this could (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Personally, I would find such a page funny. I recently checked out a page with pictures from a LEGOfest and was amused to see what people looked like. But I would hardly say that such a page is needed. If anybody bothers to maintain such a (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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