[Leica] LUG membership, "A Waiting for Go/Dig" issue.

[hellman at comcast.net (Jesse Hellman)]

It may well be the digital thing as Mark says that has thinned the 
ranks, but for me, a recovering lurker, that has not been the main 
reason for disappearance and reappearance.

I find it is hard to know how to write for the LUG, and I'm speaking 
only for myself, but I've noticed many times someone introduces himself 
and then posts pictures, at times quite wonderful pictures, but gets 
only the most middling response when another post, say on the difference 
in circles of confusion between Summicrons from two different vintages, 
gets a deluge; or else gets attacked for asking an innocent question 
that has ignored some widely held belief. And then disappears.

Other forums I frequent have next to no discord, and I wonder why the 
approach taken by certain obviously loved posters, who never say a 
negative word about anyone, is not more universally adopted.

Personally I find the LUG invaluable and the photographic pearls dropped 
have greatly improved my photography. I love the LUG. But it is possible 
that some have not liked getting their hands bitten while looking for 
pearls.

I found that private emails have garnished rich opinions on subjects 
that actually might have been interesting to the whole LUG, or so it 
seemed, but I did not feel secure enough to weather the possible 
responses to take that public route.

But I'm back, publicly again, hoping to buy that 1.4 Summilux 50 before 
Parkinson's gets me.

Jesse