Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/25

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Subject: Calm Down
From: rlocurto@pccsite.com (Ruth Locurto)
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 09:32:41 -0800

Calling people jerk's is off topic. Let's share knowledge and enthusiasm
about Leica's and photography.
Cheers, Mark Wilk (rlocurto@pccsite.com)

Patrick Sobalvarro wrote:
> 
>    From: Oddmund Garvik <garvik@i-t.fr>
>    Date: Mon, 24 Feb 97 01:44:42 -0800
> 
>    At 21:38 23/02/1997 -0500, you wrote:
>    >I liked Oddmund just fine until he sent one message in which he
>    >characterized people on the list in insulting terms.  Then I felt he
>    >was a self-important jerk.
>    >
> 
>    Americans usually get offended when people tell it like it is. And shooting
>    the messenger doesn't change the reality.
> 
> You know, I had been thinking maybe I should have dug up that old
> message in which you made broad and insulting statements about people
> on the list, so that readers could see why it was that I concluded you
> were a self-important jerk.
> 
> But now that you have so obligingly characterized all Americans, I
> think my point has been sufficiently well demonstrated.