Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/11/22
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At 06:18 PM 11/22/96 -0500, Patrick Sobalvarro wrote:
>Roger, I'm sorry to see you leaving the list. I enjoyed many of your
>posts in the past, but I (like others) didn't see why you felt it
>necessary to respond so often and so negatively to Oddmund's thoughts.
>I did not always agree with everything that Oddmund said, but I found
>his thoughts intriguing and interesting and enjoyed reading them. I
>didn't think your responses were really arguments with the issues he
>raised; instead you just seemed to be trying to get him to shut up by
>directing barbed comments at him, and this is what bothered me.
Too bad!
>On the other hand I've enjoyed reading a lot of other messages you've
>posted in the past couple of years while I've been on the list, and I
>wish you would keep posting those sorts of messages -- informative
>messages or messages asking interesting questions -- and fewer
>combative messages.
His initial issues had no place on the list and offended me. I'm combative
only when riled. I was riled and I'm outa there.
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Roger Beamon
Naturalist & Photographer
Docent: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Leica Historical Society Of America
Mail to: beamon@primenet.com