Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/03/29

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Subject: [Leica] an apology to Jay
From: jls at runbox.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Mon Mar 29 13:11:29 2004
References: <e6.4afec9ed.2d99e4b9@aol.com>

Didn't Frazier Crane have a fight like this on Cheers? :-)  The guys in the 
bar said "Are they fighting?", and nobody could tell for sure.

It's water under the bridge, friends.

Jeffery

At 02:44 PM 3/29/2004, you wrote:
><<In a message dated 03/28/2004 9:52:25 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>telyt@earthlink.net writes:
>want to apologize to Jay for divulging to the LUG in a post earlier this
>evening details of his experience and personal life. >>
>Actually pretty much everything you "divulged" was either partially or wholly
>untrue, or spindoctored into fantasy.  You didn't even manage to get the
>county I live in right.  You gave me a good laugh as usual.
>
><<The animosity between Jay and myself on the photo.net Leica forum is well
>known among regular forum visitors.  I do not wish to duplicate the
>animosity here on the LUG.>>
>Then don't.  It's a completely one-sided animosity, I've never done anything
>but publicly praise your abilities to make much better bird photos with your
>ancient equipment than I am capable of despite using the same gear almost 
>every
>top wildlife pro uses--it truly goes to show that the camera is more
>important to the photographer than the photograph.
>   <<At the same time when I seen a post I disagree
>with I will offer my opinion even if it offends Jay.>>
>
>I am never offended by anyone's opinion, and I try to be compassionate
>regarding the pathology behind the way some people have to serve up their 
>opinions
>with a dollop of personal attack...but being human sometimes I run out of 
>other
>cheeks to turn.  For that I apologize in advance.
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