Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bill, click on the hyperlink in Eric's message, and you'll go right to that quote (which I copied directly). All best, Jim Shulman - -----Original Message----- From: Bill Larsen <ohlen@lightspeed.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Sunday, August 22, 1999 10:28 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: WAS: Monaghan's on AF lenses..BSHIT!:) >Jim Shulman writes: > > >|Just checked the status of our group's mission, which reads, quote: >| >|The Leica Users Group is an automated mailing list, for people who are >|interested in Leica cameras of all types, M or R, old or new. >| > >Jim, from what are you quoting? I have never seen this description of the >mission statement for the group. > >The mission statement from the welcoming message as of the 6th of July (since >we are quoting) states: > >"This list is intended to be used by people who take photographs with Leica >and other rangefinder cameras. > >"Most of the members of the list are owners or want-to-be owners of Leica >cameras. While it is impossible to draw a firm boundary between camera users >and camera collectors, this list is not intended to be a forum for camera >collectors. > >"It is acceptable for individuals occasionally to post advertisements to sell >cameras, and very much acceptable for individuals to post requests to buy >cameras. Any user who is obviously conducting a business in the sale of >cameras will be removed from the list. > >"While all of us recognize that fine rangefinder cameras have been and are >made by other companies than Leica, and many of us own Canon, Nikon, or >Contax rangefinders, the name Leica has stood for excellence in rangefinder >cameras for more than half a century. > >"Yes we know that Leica makes SLR's. They are excellent cameras and you will >find some people on this list who own them and talk about them. However, the >majority of the traffic and the interest is in rangefinder cameras." > >This quite different than the quote that you have. I would really like to >know when Brian stated what you quote. > >Bill Larsen > > >