Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, I figured it out now. So confusing when people use handles instead of their name. SonC (Sonny Carter) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Noel Charchuk Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 10:00 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] Was Peter Moss Now Mistaken identity Sonny, if you read Oddmund's message again, you will see he was describing Peter Moss, of Al Jazeera link fame, not Ruddy, of Jamacian stripper fame. Noel "SonC \(Sonny Carter\)" <sonc@sonc.com> wrote: > >Gee Oddmund, That's interesting. After Ruddy made that email, I emailed >him a note off list that perhaps he was judging everyone by a few >people's actions, misunderstanding others and that there were some >people who were experts and nice and interesting, it was just that we >had developed folkways that operated this little culture. > >He fired back an invective-filled response that I do not feel I deserved >at all in light of my contacts with him. When I responded that I was >only trying to help, he sent a terse reply that he doesn't "eat shit." > >So, it may be that your friend is a wonderful person, but he is no >gentleman. I have some experience with Danes, (married to one) and I've >always found them reasonable people. Not so Ruddy. > >You say he's about 65 or 66 now, but he's younger than you in a way. >Every once in a while in IRC, and the online Kodak forum (formerly on >AOL) a youngster would come in and stir things up with trolling, then >when we did not immediately respond in the fashion he wanted , send lots >of text filled with insult and invective. > >Sound familiar? No mater how cool you say Ruddy is, I'm glad he's gone. >We don't need him. > >Sonny > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of >nomansland@altern.org >Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 1:59 AM >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] Peter Moss > >Ruddy a écrit: > >> So my advice..leave these OLD men to their leicas..and filters... and >> their COLD LIVES..... > >Yes, I think that was exactly what he did. He told me that he had >unsubscibed after just a couple of days. > >In fact I sent him to the LUG by telling him about the place some time >ago. This man i s a friend of mine, and I subscribed again solely to >defend him. He is off the LUG now, because he understood how infected >this place is/can be and what a spilling of time it is. > >Peter is originally Danish, but he was living i Morocco for forty years. >He came to France when his Moroccan wife and three daughters were killed >in an air accident, and I met him occasionally in a Parisian café last >year. I was in Paris for the weekend and we were both carrying old >Leicas, and that was it. > >He'd been working as a doctor in Morocco, and also for the International >Red Cross in several countries, and he told me lot of interesting >stories (Danes and Norwegians understand each others languages). >Later he showed some very interesting images - he had boxes and boxes... > >He's about 65 or 66 now, but he's younger than me in a way, and in spite >of loosing his beloved family, he's not at all bitter, lost or unsane. >I thought I would just tell you this as a reminder. Don't condemn people >so quickly! Don't think you are apt to be judges - certainly not these >days - those of you hypocritically grabbing to you 'rights' or any other >pretext when it suits you... (the usual nonsense about 'politics' for >instance). > >Peter Moss - a terrorist? Totally ridiculous! There is a French saying >going like this: if 'le ridicule' was deadly, you would (all) be dead >now... > >Go on waving and shouting in the dust of your nombrils. Loose your >time as much as you want. But stop blaming people without knowing them! > >To the others - the nice and sensible members of the LUG (you will know >who) - I wish you all the best! I might stay for some days... > > >Oddmund >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > __________________________________________________________________ Try AOL and get 1045 hours FREE for 45 days! http://free.aol.com/tryaolfree/index.adp?375380 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 for FREE! Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promos=380455 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html