Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 2/22/01 12:24 AM, Ted Grant at tedgrant@home.com wrote: > > Actually the archiving of such a group as this, particularly when the topic > stays on leica and photography, is a God send of information for those who > follow ... The LUG Archives are a *great* source of info on all things Leica! And *very* useful to us newbies. > Each time I see a NO ARCHIVE I really get a chuckle, simply because if one > looks at the number of members, what a 1000 or more, and willie wonkie posts > something very significant leica, then says NO ARCHIVE, surely he doesn't > think no one will copy his great words of wisdom? Particularly if the > information in the post is very helpful in using a leica! Um ... I've actually done a good bit of this copying and saving of posts and pieces of posts. Particularly the discussions on film - very handy to have in a file on the desktop. > > The other side of this is, many posts have NO ARCHIVE and I can quite > understand why the poster doesn't want it archived, simply because he hasn't > said anything of any importance and he might look as dumb as a moron some > day in the future! ;-) The Internet already has so much of this "dumb as a moron" stuff that it all just fades into the background. Kinda like white noise. And, by the way, why waste time worrying about the possiblity of some future nitwit unearthing a particularly inane comment that you made while under the influence of 18yr old Macallan's ten, twenty years ago? No one knows what the future holds; live in the here and now, while you have it. Erminia