Re: [Leica] changes in the LUG

[Bernard <5521.g23@g23.relcom.ru>]

While I was printing photos off of Leica negatives, today, my thoughts
wandered off to the LUG, and I had this wonderful idea. What if all the
people who like to complain about the LUG, created their own list to do
just that; complain about the LUG. In that way they don't commit the
crime they accuse others of, and have a swell time with each other, for
they have so much in common. For one thing, they like Leica, and for
another, they don't like the LUG. I even came up with a name for the new
list: The Antilug. I like the way it sounds; there's something
millennial about it. Very much in pace with the times we live in. The
most knowledgeable person on The Antilug, may call himself Antipope.

Bernard.



Summicron1@aol.com wrote:

> dear erwin and LUG,
>
> Erwin recently wrote a long thing about how the LUG seems to have
> changed and
> posited that LUG users have gone through all their questions on topic
> and are
> now using the LUG as a forum for other opinions, having nothing else
> to talk
> about.
>
> This is probably the case. The solution should be obvious. You guys
> who sit
> at a computer for more than half an hour a day answering the LUG, turn
> off
> the computer.  You guys who post to it more than once a day, take a
> break.
> You're letting it take over your life.
>
> Make a new year resolution on October to only answer the LUG once a
> week.
> Spend the resulting time out shooting pictures, or reading a book, or
> getting
> to know your kids again. Only post something to the LUG if you have a
> specific question that needs to be answered or a specific camera topic
> to
> discuss. If someone puts something up that you feel a need to answer
> before
> your week is gone, make a note and wait. It will keep.
>
> This will make the LUG a much more compact, friendly place and you'll
> be a
> lot less stressed out. You'll no longer feel a need to write three
> screens of
> argument getting people to realize how important it is that their
> filters be
> put on the lens small-end out (or something equally trivial.) Your
> life will
> be a calmer place. Your wife will quit looking at you funny.
>
> I just signed onto the submini list, which allegedly has 200 members
> (LUG has
> what? 700?) and i don't even take the digest. So far I've only had two
> or
> three e-mails a day, the most was five. All were on camera topics,
> pleasantly
> read and dealt with. I've even managed to sell some of my excess
> Minolta 16
> film cassettes. ($10 each, guaranteed genuine if you're interested).
>
> LUG could be like this if the members would quit trying to use it as a
> method
> of self expression and get back to using it as a way to talk to others
> with
> shared interest. Don't give it so much importance in your life.
>
> Really, a good image is worth more than an opinion shared, and
> photography is
> a lot of fun to talk about. If someone disagrees with you on some
> other
> subject, leave them in their ignorance. You'll both be happier.
>
> charlie trentelman
> Ogden, Utah