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re: Name of Club
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lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf
Date: 
Tue, 16 Feb 1999 21:44:34 GMT
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Eric McCarthy <eric@reasoning+nospam+.com>
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Points made in prior messages:
(1) "users group" term too techish
(2) "Lego" word might be trademark problem
I agree with these points.
Besides, I think it's reasonable to include
other brands of building bricks instead of
restricting the discussion to the Lego brand.

My suggestions:

BABBS - Bay Area Building Brick Society
BABBL - Bay Area Building Brick League

Both are easy to pronounce.

Neither babbl.org nor babbs.org is taken.

Anyone else like either of these names?

/Eric M/



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  Re: Name of Club
 
Or ask Lego if it's ok to include their name? Seems to me that they'd prefer not to acknowledge the existence of "plug-compatible" bricks. [techie allusion intended] (...) Why? The others aren't nearly as good as the original. Do you have a (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)

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  re: Club Ideas
 
Danger, long post. These are my comments on the Club/Group ideas: Of course they are all my own twisted opinions. ;-) FWIW. (...) I'm not too concerned with the name. baylug is fine. It's probably easier than researching/getting approval from LEGO (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)

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