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Subject: 
Re: Custom Built LEGO Sets in 2002
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lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general
Date: 
Thu, 7 Dec 2000 18:34:23 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Todd Lehman writes:

You'd have to trust the program, of course -- that it wouldn't sneakily upload
the model as well as the parts list.  If you don't have the source code to the
program or you aren't able to reverse-engineer it, lord knows what it's doing.

...which goes back to the idea of designing a "dummy model" out of the parts
you want, and sending that.  You get the parts you want, and TLC comes nowhere
near the model you don't want them to have.

eric



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  Re: Custom Built LEGO Sets in 2002
 
(...) Agreed. It just seems a waste of effort, because presumably first you had to design the real one to find out what parts you needed (or build a real one, but in either case, divine the needed parts). Someone may write a mixmaster program to (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)

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  Re: Custom Built LEGO Sets in 2002
 
(...) You'd have to trust the program, of course -- that it wouldn't sneakily upload the model as well as the parts list. If you don't have the source code to the program or you aren't able to reverse-engineer it, lord knows what it's doing. --Todd (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)

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