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| | | Jake McKee <jacob.mckee@america.lego.com> wrote in message news:GA91n9.735@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) This concerns me too, I'd appreciate knowing reasons for this change. I can understand confusing a lego.com address with an official post, and (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings —Mark Papenfuss
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| | | | | (...) And a ROYAL pain in the rear - are we all to wade through the posts under the lugnet.lego to find the one post we are looking for? If they are talking about trains, masks, or whatever - then they should be able to post in that thread just like (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | | | (...) Maybe, as Frank Filz said elsewhere in this thread, it would be a good idea to keep the chatter in the lugnet.lego.* groups down. (...) It's not a matter of personal vs official posts, really. It's a matter of where LEGO is invited to (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Is it really a good thing if someone at TLC happens to have TLC records which allow them to answer one of the "Dear Gary" posts, and they are allowed to share that information, to not allow them to directly respond to the original question? (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) They can answer the question. They just can't answer it in a fan forum. Which *is* a good thing, because when you see it there will be no doubt that it is 100% Official LEGO position. (...) No, I am saying that I would prefer to see fans only (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Yes indeed. Of course it doesn't work 100% reliably (1), leaves no trace, and provides no opportunity for anyone else to comment, offer workarounds, etc. where that would be a helpful thing to do. Seriously... this blocking of posts to .admin (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) "That Larry guy, he just keeps trying to give money, I wish he'd go away." ;^) I've noticed the lost mail thing too, and the response rate. I remember he once said that he prioritized messages and replied to those, and still some got lost (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings —Hakan Tandogan
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Well, if that's the case, them I'm being ignored for wanting to give money away, too ;-) Or, at least, to get Todd to collect that 50$ I sent him half a year ago.... (...) Regards, Hakan (...) (23 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) This HAS to be an oversight on Todd's part. I can't imagine he did that on purpose. So I wouldn't worry about it unless it stays that way. But it seems clear to me that Todd acted in haste for some reason, it's not like him to overlook a (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings —Mark Papenfuss
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| | | | | | | | (...) Would that really happen? if this was the only place for them to answer questions, the mass amount of posts in this thread would be staggering. Plus, if they do answer a question there would be some follow-up in the direct thread - there would (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings —William R. Ward
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| | | | | | (...) If this policy is to continue, let me make another suggestion to help with this: there's always lugnet.lego.announce - encourage LEGO employees to post there. Todd, I think it was probably a bad idea to institute this policy without discussing (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) (Hey, I'm a technologist so I often propose technical solutions to social problems) How about a way from the web interface for members to have one of several precomposed sigs to choose from? That way when I am posting to make an official Guild (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | | | (...) Only help for the web interface, though. What if they wanna post using e-mail or nntp? (...) ROSCO (23 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) What may have confused people is if they were looking to some existing problem that this is supposed to be solving. It's actually not about solving a problem. It's about avoiding dilution of what the community is. LUGNET discussion groups were (...) (23 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp) !!
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| | | | | Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Note that I think this allows you to "change" an address but does not give you an easy way, from one browser, to create two posting identities (which both link to the same real human being, and which both clearly show a way to contact that (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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