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Subject: 
Re: Availability of Soccer Women's Team #3416?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp
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lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Wed, 9 May 2001 20:48:11 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Mike Walsh writes:
> 
> "LUGNET Admin" <todd@lugnet.com> wrote in message
> news:3af8cf68.29241477@lugnet.com...
> 
> [ ... snipped ... ]
> 
> > 
> > If it bothers you that much to switch back and forth between two posting
> > configurations, simply set up two separate web browsers -- one for
> > official
> > posts and one for personal posts -- until I can fix the web interface to
> > make it easier for you to switch directly.

So fix it already. Until you do I suggest that what really matters is the
*SIGNATURE* on the post. NOT the email address associated with it.

> > Or, if that's too much work, use
> > your web browser for posting official messages and your newsreader for
> > posting private messages.  Or, if that's too much work, borrow someone
> > else's computer who doesn't use their web browser often and make official
> > posts from there.  Or, if that's still too much work, restrict yourself to
> > posting officially only from your computer at work and posting privately
> > only from your computer from home.  At any rate, please, no more official
> > LEGO posts from your personal email account.  Thanks.  Questions...feel
> > free  to call us on the phone.
> > 
> > --
> > Todd S. Lehman | LUGNET Admin <todd@lugnet.com>

Guess what. I decided this was an offical statement by the sig. I didn't
even look at the email address.

> > 
> > [cc Brad Justus via email]
> 
> I read this article this morning and my initial thought was "great, here we
> go again".  Let's alienate a valuable source of information again.

Hear hear.

> 
> Todd, if you don't want the LD employees to do this, then you have the
> responsibility to make it easy for them to switch posting IDs.  I don't
> think that putting the burden to work through the posting process should
> fall on the LD folks.  If you don't want them to post in this manner then it
> is your responsibility to mechanize LUGNET to facilitate switching posting
> IDs.

Agreed.

> The discussion about how much of a nuisance it is to change posting IDs was
> pretty detailed (I think it was Larry P. who summarized the process) when
> you first implemented the posting restricition.

And I'll be happy to dredge up that post if you forgot how much of a
nuisance it is. I just now went through it to get this particular client PC
authorised and it is a significant amount of time to change settings...

FUT admin.nntp

++Lar



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"LUGNET Admin" <todd@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:3af8cf68.292414...net.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) official (...) use (...) free (...) I read this article this morning and my initial thought was "great, here we go again". Let's alienate (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)

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