Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica]M6 for Brian
From: Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 98 21:09:00 -0700

Please don't do this. It would embarrass me awfully.
I have gotten my money's worth out of the LUG.
I created it on April 7, 1992, with the following as its first message

 To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
 Subject: welcome to our little mailing list
 Date: Tue, 07 Apr 92 10:31:06 PDT
 From: Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>

 There are now 17 people on the leica-users mailing list. That's enough
 that I can probably ask the question that prompted me to form the list
 in the first place:

 Has anybody worked out a good system for how to load modern film into
 an old Leica? I find that I can't do it unless I carefully take a pair
 of scissors and cut a longer tail on the film, but I often do this
 wrong and even when I do it right it takes several minutes. Is there a
 trick? Is there a tool that cuts the long film tail (e.g. something
 sold for use with a bulk film loader?).

 When you reply, please try to use whatever "reply" command you have
 that sends replies to the original "To:" field as well as to me.
 That way everybody sees the answer.

The first few people to participate are indicated below.

04/07/92  Dyer Lytle CCS     Re: welcome to our little mailing list
04/07/92  Kevin Burke        Re: welcome to our little mailing list
04/07/92  Brian Reid         Leica repair recommendation
04/07/92  Mark Eastman       Re: Leica Service & lens surgery
04/07/92  ktw@hlwpk.att.com  Re: welcome to our little mailing list
04/08/92  Mark Eastman       Summicronicles
04/08/92  paul@research.att  Re: Summicronicles
04/09/92  schooler@apollo.h  
04/09/92  Jeffrey Frey       lenses
04/09/92  Dick Palace        lenses
04/10/92  Larry Bullis       Excuse me, folks, but ...
04/10/92  Ihtisham Kabir     Re: misc. optics
04/13/92  Jack Campin        what has a 43mm filter thread?
04/24/92  Steve Fellini      question about 35mm finder
05/04/92  Jay Pulli          Experience with Leica dealers
05/12/92  Michael R. Volow   meters and accessory feet
06/04/92  ANDPPH@ritvax.isc  Nikon to Leica adapter
06/05/92  wakiss@ihlpl.att.  Please remove me from list
06/29/92  "Philip Hiscock,   The FED 5 Leica knock-off
07/11/92  Chuck Liang        Leicaflex SL and lens information sought
07/22/92  Darrell Raymond    Re: Leica body materials
07/24/92  finn@ISI.EDU       Current M4 prices

I think it's amusing that on June 5, 1992, someone complained about the
list volume and asked to be removed. His is message 64 in the archive,
which means that there had been 63 messages total in the 2 months that
the list has existed, an average of 1 message per day. I guess "overload"
is a relative term.