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Subject:	Re: What would happen if ... TLC bought Lugnet ?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.general, lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Thu, 11 Jan 2001 19:07:44 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Mark Sandlin wrote: > Kevin Zwicker at kevin1@netrover.com wrote: > > > Say, tomorrow morning, TLC went to Todd and Suzanne with a check for 10 > > million dollars (Hypothetical number) and said we wish to purchase the > > rights to your website. How would we, the community, react? > > I think TLC would likely "Juniorize" the place. *shudder* Hmm. This would mean that there would be a large number of newsgroups, each specially designed for a specific purpose. Wait, we've already got that. Steve

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		Re: What would happen if ... TLC bought Lugnet ?
No, it means that they'd put Flash all over the site, and menus that loaded REAAAALLL slow, and generally muck up a perfectly good setup. (...) -- \| Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp \| Please do not associate my personal (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: What would happen if ... TLC bought Lugnet ?
(...) No, LEGO would just gives us a few silly words that only work in a few situations and expect us to create meaningful conversations with those words ;) Chris (23 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: What would happen if ... TLC bought Lugnet ?
(...) I know what it would be like, because I've visted www.lego.com. I would have to use a WWW interface only (no NNTP etc) and to select a particular newgroup, I would have to click a large image representing that group. The download of these (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: What would happen if ... TLC bought Lugnet ?
(...) They could send us plane tickets along with the wedding invites to LLC. ;^) I think TLC would likely "Juniorize" the place. shudder ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (23 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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