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Re: Lego at Gerf.Org
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lugnet.publish
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Mon, 27 Sep 1999 22:11:00 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Matthew Miller writes:
> James Brown <galliard@shades-of-night.com> wrote:
> > Yes, but people aren't reasonable. :) And I suspect that if you went out and
> > asked 10 random people what company owned "lego.gerf.org", most of them would
> > tell you "Lego".
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> Really? That's pretty sad.
That possibility, or that I >think< that? ;-)
> > And I don't know about the rest of you, but if I saw lego.castles.org, or
> > lego.blacktron.org, I would sure as heck think it was an official site.
>
> I assume that Blacktron is a trademark of TLG. (It's definitely "their"
> word, in any case.) So yeah, assuming that lego.blacktron.org belongs to TLG
> makes sense. But (and I mean this in all the best way) if you associate
> anything at castles.org with TLG, you're being silly.
When I read a URL that conists primarily of words, I instinctively try to read
it as a sentence instead of as placeholders for a string of numbers. <shrug>
That's the language I grew up with. 'lego.castles.org' translates in my brain
as 'an organization about Lego castles' and depending on the site content,
could quite easily look TLG sponsored.
> > My point is that merely the fact that this conversation is happening means
> > that there may be some confusion.
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> I don't think so. I think it illustrates that there is very little
> confusion: not a single person thought "Oh wait, maybe this guy actually has
> checked with TLG and gotten sponsorship of his site. It's possible that he's
> got some sort of authorized specialness."
We're also dealing with a unusually well-informed sub-section of the internet
at large. I think you'd have to look pretty hard on LUGnet to find someone
who isn't very familiar with how TLG tends to do things, and how Lego (in
general) appears on the net. But a layman who isn't familiar with these
things will make mistakes that the rest of us consider so glaring as to be
horribly offensive. Happens all the time on the internet. Many people call
them "newbies" ;)
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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| (...) The possibility of course! (...) Well, the site content is an entirely different issue. I'm entirely understanding of the need for obvious "This is not an official Lego site" disclaimers. But anyway, it's not a matter of translating to (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| (...) Really? That's pretty sad. (...) I assume that Blacktron is a trademark of TLG. (It's definitely "their" word, in any case.) So yeah, assuming that lego.blacktron.org belongs to TLG makes sense. But (and I mean this in all the best way) if you (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)
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