Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: WAS: Monaghan's on AF lenses..BSHIT!:)
From: "Jim Shulman" <garcia@chesco.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 22:34:20 -0400

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
>
>
>