Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica E-mail group
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 22:43:01 -0800

Yes Ted, I agree with you 100%. Everybody on this list is adult, mature,
and seems to have good common sense. As you say, family. Sometimes we
squabble, but we always "kiss and make up". You'll never EVER find this on
a newsgroup. To use a modern vernacular... NEWSGROUPS SUCK! BIG TIME!

Jim

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At 11:06 PM 1/14/98 -0500, ted wrote:
><<<I like looking at most of the messages, and I have learned a lot from
>this group. Fixing is not in order.>>>>>
>
>To All:
>
>I had a friend show me, what do you call it a __newsgroup__? one night and
>I must say I've never seen such utter drivel and inane nonsense, not to get
>off on the bourgeois attitudes and language, rude one onto another and lack
>of courtesy was quite intolerable.
>
>This Leica group without question has the greatest group of well mannered
>and intelligent, knowledgeable, experienced group of photographers and
>people one would want to associate with.
>
>Lets not have anyone come in here and get crazy ideas about changing it!!! 
>PERIOD!
>
>We are friends in here, this is family, it isn't a bunch of ner do well
>ill-mannered morons sitting at a computer key board with a tiny amount of
>photography knowledge trying to make themselves sound like they wrote they
>book!  Badly!!!!!!
>
>So to anybody wanting a change----- Leave our LUG alone!
>
>ted
>