[Leica] Opinions and LUGites

["Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>]

Doug,

There are some people that feel what they own and what they use (or not use)
is best.
I find this more prominent among Leicaphiles than any other group.  I must
say Having been on the receiving end more than once it was nice to observe
more for a change.
There are a few select LUGites who will strongly voice their "opinion" and
once this happens others join in the frenzy as someone once said "like ants
attacking an invader who has come into their nest."
Take it for what its worth.  Opinions of the loudly voiced tubthumpers are
really just that, an opinion and no better than that of others. :-)

Peter K

- -----Original Message-----
Doug Richardson wrote:

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My comment about opinion versus fact was not intended to suggest that
anyone is deliberately giving false or misleading information, but an
expression of my concern that opinions are often presented with a
degree of forcefullness which makes them look like facts, and in some
cases are defended (perhaps not by the original poster) with a zeal
which elevates them to dogma.  It was not an attack on anyone -
particularly not Marc, whom I've always found to be an unstinting
source of advice. Indeed it was his enthusiasm for the marque which
finally presuaded me to buy a pre-war example of a Certain Other
(Zeiss) Camera.

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