Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/09

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Subject: [Leica] decline in LUG membership
From: ruben at rhodos.dk (Ruben)
Date: Mon Aug 9 11:16:16 2004
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I subscripe to the Rollei RUG the Leica (LUG) and the Hasselblad HUG list -
in percent the activity is it is like 60-35-5 - so the decline mesured in
activity is stll in favour of leica !
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <mak@teleport.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] decline in LUG membership


> Perhaps due to a decline in Leica use as well? How many of us grab a
digital SLR for day to day photos ? I do...
>
> This same topic just came up on another list of which I am a
> member...decline in membership. I'm going to guess it's due to several
> reasons. One is decline in the novelty of using the internet to
> communicate, one is the incredible amount of time it takes to read and
> respond to posts and one is the fact that spam seems to rule and many
> folks don't want to wade through it to get to the good stuff.
>
> As for me, I'm less list-active because I'm busier in my business. I
> still read threads that are of interest but post rarely. I have also
> made the switch to digital tho I do still own many film cameras and of
> course one is my Leica. I don't use it often these days so many of my
> photo questions would be inappropriate on this list.
>
> There is great value in these forums and I'm sure it is immeasureable
> how much educating goes on for those who subscribe.
>
> Lea
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Reid" <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> To: <LUG@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 10:26 AM
> Subject: [Leica] decline in LUG membership
>
>
> > For the first time in 8 years, the number of subscribers to the LUG
> has fallen below 1000. Not sure what this means. You all have been doing
> a good job of keeping political rants off the LUG, and we've never had a
> problem with religious rants there.
> >
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