Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/24

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Subject: [Leica] LUG 20th anniversary
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:43:55 -0500
References: <A988AB5B94E5F019673281D7@hindolveston.reid.org>

On Mar 24, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Brian Reid wrote:

> Two weeks from today will be the 20th anniversary of the founding of the 
> LUG.
> The first message was sent on 7 April 1992 (by me) and answered by three 
> people (none of whom is still a subscriber). Since that time there have 
> been 683,188 emails in 49 volumes. (I discovered this today when I started 
> the process of closing vol.49 and moving to vol.50)
> 
> The longest-standing subscriber appears to be Michael Volow, who joined in 
> May 1992 and is still here.
> 
> Mike's day job is that he is a psychiatrist in Raleigh, NC and an Emeritus 
> professor in Psychiatry at Duke University. Nothing like a Leica to keep a 
> person sane, eh?

big thank you Brian!
big congratulations too!

Can't help wondering
How many current LUG subscribers
continue to actually "use"
Leica cameras as their primary cameras.

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist







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