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Subject: 
Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp
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lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Thu, 15 Mar 2001 22:31:52 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Tim Courtney writes:

Jake McKee <jacob.mckee@america.lego.com> wrote in message
news:GA91n9.735@lugnet.com...

I am really confused about the direction you are wanting to take with this
move. Are you not wanting LEGO employee/fans involved with the
community except in an official capacity? If you are wanting them
involved, > but under a different identity, can you help to make the process
of posting
from separate identities easier?

I think you go to http://www.lugnet.com/news/ and follow the posting setup
for a totally new address - ie, creating a new account and having it
approved again.  That's how I've changed addresses on Lugnet before.

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 human) that one can easily toggle between.

I speculate that it has to do with cookies as they are used to manage what
your identity is when using the web interface. I speculate that if you used
netscape to post under one identity and IE from the other you could do it. I
speculate that if you had two computers you could do it. But I haven't
tested to validate if that even works.

From NNTP again, I speculate that you'd have to use two different
newsreaders or at least two config file versions (which I think some
newsreaders allow).

Having said that, it seems mighty discouraging to have to jump through those
hoops to be able to participate as a fan.

++Lar



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  Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings
 
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 (...) (24 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)  

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