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Re: Question: Why allow postings of lego.direct on lugnet at all? (sarcasm warning)
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Date: 
Mon, 17 Jun 2002 06:26:34 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:

So my heretical question is: do we profit from the presence of LD at Lugnet at
all? (Nearly?) all what I have read here so far, could have been posted just as
well at lego.com.

For my Lego news, I come to Lugnet almost every day. I only visit Lego.com
every 2 weeks or so. If TLC announcements weren't on LUGNET, then the
balance would move a little the other way.

For example, every few days we see a list of S@H specials from Tom Stangl
and others. People really appreciate this information from Tom. Now, what if
Jake did these instead of Tom? That would be a plain, simple advertisement!
But would the information be any less valuable to the community? After all,
the S@H specials are available elsewhere....

So my conclusion is, if  the content of LD announcements would be acceptable
coming from a fan, then they ought to be regarded as acceptable coming from TLC.

Announcing new sets is advertisement - at every other place
LD would have to pay for it.

I think TLC's announcements here are more like press releases than
advertisements. Newspapers print press releases not because they are paid
for, but because they (in theory at least!) make the newspaper more interesting.

Mark



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  Re: Question: Why allow postings of Lego Direct on lugnet at all?
 
(...) I think there would be even no need to visit lego.com: for sure someone would post (or link) the news into the lugnet. Lots of news are 'leaking' out of lego.com even before they are published in a regular way there. Just these days pictures (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)

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  Question: Why allow postings of lego.direct on lugnet at all? (sarcasm warning)
 
Dear Lego® Fans! Dear people of the Lego® company and Lego.direct! This is Lugnet: the network for Lego® users, not for Lego® producers or dealers. So after the strong discussions of the last few days let me allow to put even some more oil into the (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.lego.direct) !! 

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