Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello Brian, I'm relatively new to the group but you have no idea how much fun and precious info I got from here. Seriously, maintaining a newsgroup like this is costly both in terms of time and money. It will be awfully unfair for anyone to do it on his own and let others enjoy as much. I am not a computer guy and therefore cannot help you in computer area but please at least let me chip in to show my gratitude to your great and thoughtful work. Thanks in advance. Warm regards, Ben Brian Reid wrote: > Please don't do this. It would embarrass me awfully. > I have gotten my money's worth out of the LUG. > I created it on April 7, 1992, with the following as its first message > > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: welcome to our little mailing list > Date: Tue, 07 Apr 92 10:31:06 PDT > From: Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > > There are now 17 people on the leica-users mailing list. That's enough > that I can probably ask the question that prompted me to form the list > in the first place: > > Has anybody worked out a good system for how to load modern film into > an old Leica? I find that I can't do it unless I carefully take a pair > of scissors and cut a longer tail on the film, but I often do this > wrong and even when I do it right it takes several minutes. Is there a > trick? Is there a tool that cuts the long film tail (e.g. something > sold for use with a bulk film loader?). > > When you reply, please try to use whatever "reply" command you have > that sends replies to the original "To:" field as well as to me. > That way everybody sees the answer. > > The first few people to participate are indicated below. > > 04/07/92 Dyer Lytle CCS Re: welcome to our little mailing list > 04/07/92 Kevin Burke Re: welcome to our little mailing list > 04/07/92 Brian Reid Leica repair recommendation > 04/07/92 Mark Eastman Re: Leica Service & lens surgery > 04/07/92 ktw@hlwpk.att.com Re: welcome to our little mailing list > 04/08/92 Mark Eastman Summicronicles > 04/08/92 paul@research.att Re: Summicronicles > 04/09/92 schooler@apollo.h > 04/09/92 Jeffrey Frey lenses > 04/09/92 Dick Palace lenses > 04/10/92 Larry Bullis Excuse me, folks, but ... > 04/10/92 Ihtisham Kabir Re: misc. optics > 04/13/92 Jack Campin what has a 43mm filter thread? > 04/24/92 Steve Fellini question about 35mm finder > 05/04/92 Jay Pulli Experience with Leica dealers > 05/12/92 Michael R. Volow meters and accessory feet > 06/04/92 ANDPPH@ritvax.isc Nikon to Leica adapter > 06/05/92 wakiss@ihlpl.att. Please remove me from list > 06/29/92 "Philip Hiscock, The FED 5 Leica knock-off > 07/11/92 Chuck Liang Leicaflex SL and lens information sought > 07/22/92 Darrell Raymond Re: Leica body materials > 07/24/92 finn@ISI.EDU Current M4 prices > > I think it's amusing that on June 5, 1992, someone complained about the > list volume and asked to be removed. His is message 64 in the archive, > which means that there had been 63 messages total in the 2 months that > the list has existed, an average of 1 message per day. I guess "overload" > is a relative term.