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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G9H6Ju.Aty@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) I'm not Steve either but I did meet him (and three other members of PNLTC - Dwayne, Kim, Dave) last night here in Portland. (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) What if TLC *wants* a single group to which it can more conveniently communicate, instead of dealing with 10-12+ different groups? (...) ?? What if TLC or LD wants to support LTCs doing train shows by providing catalogs, K8s, signs, whatever. (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Buh. Brain lockup. Too many things at once. To finish my own thought (even though it's obvious): I *do* think that the meta-group should freely share and compare notes about the results of dealing with TLC and other organisations with one (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) I think that each club should definitely handle speaking to TLC and other organisations on their own. I do not think that this meta-group should *ever* speak to TLC, or give TLC the impression that they (TLC) should address the meta-group (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) I'm not Steve. But I think the idea was that the mailing list would be private... and when LD was to be notified of something, someone would tell them but say they were speaking with the consensus of the group. If LD wanted to say something, (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Personally I don't really feel like we are "solving any problems". The part of Steve B's. origional post that I really liked was the part about sharing information on Honorariums. This is something I have struggled with for a while with (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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Steve, I agree with all of this except maybe... (...) How do you see this working? I thought that one of the main ideas behind this was so that we could talk off-line without anyone looking over our shoulder. Do you see LD being perminantly on the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Good point. (I ask it myself in design reviews when people are putting technology in to something because the tech's cool rather than because it's needed) It's a question I haven't 100% sussed myself. There's the sharing of information (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Great summary! I really feel this helped me a lot to understand more of the issues. One thing I'm not clear on yet, though, with regard to the purpose of the organization, is what current problems it would solve? Or would it just make more new (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) I hope you will stay involved :-) I think you've got the widest experience with LTCs (how many are you a member of?). (...) I'd love to see some work on module standards. It would be nice to head towards a standard height for the table (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) And I hope McSpamcake makes it to the big day too...I want to see him and that's the closest I'll get to him for a while, I feel. -Tim (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.people)
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I was just checking out some of J-1's pics from the Kidvention last summer, and I found one that captured 4 AFOLs who visited us in one random shot: (URL) McDonald in the foreground, Ron Kittle being blocked by Tom's cap brim, John Gramley and (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.people)
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Steve, I am with you on this one! I think all of this jabbering is nuts, I didn't come home from work and log on to see all of this stuff. Lets all take two steps back and take a deep breath and not get to carried away with this at first. Lets get a (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: What's in a name? (I*LTC)
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(...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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>sipped> (...) Here are some: :)) Or Association of Lego Model Railroading? ALMR? but get this ALMR.org is "Association of Lighting and Mercury Recyclers" !?!?!?!?!? Or National (going off topic) Lego Model Railroad Association. Its open. Or (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) I don't have any objections, but since I just heard about this in the past few days, it seems rather quick to pick a name within just a few days, especially if it ends up getting written in stone before everyone has had a chance to narrow (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Well, since I've been brought up in this, I'm gonna take the liberty to give a few opinions. ;) First off, I understand you all are enthusiastic about this, and I don't want to rain on your parade, but consider the practicalities of your (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org)
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| | LEGO Maniac's Webring (Was: Re: TeenLTC?)
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(...) Its Courtney :c) (...) Yup. Do you know more what the timeframe will be for it? And, can we get together before I go home for break to chat about it, I leave next Saturday. XFUT: .publish, .admin.general -that 'Tim' I keep hearing about (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That's a great way of phrasing it. Absolutely -- LTC's are a special case of LUGs. --Todd (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) ^^^ "the" or "a"? What region does it cover? --Todd (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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