Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Sopranos (final)
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 16:08:56 -0700

Joe Codispoti wrote:
> 
> I agree that I should have included Marks and Raimo's original posts or at
> least quoted from them.
> 
> I took issue with Raimo for *his* innuendos about Guido's last name and with
> Mark for publishing the Alta Vista translation (erroneous by the way) which
> also alluded to a similar defamatory reference.
> I thought that it was in poor taste. I would not have publish such a
> translation since - correct or not - it was demeaning to a LUG member and
> serves only to fuel the irresistible urge by others to pounce on one when
> one is down.
> 
> I enjoy learning from what most members have to say -  pertinent to
> photography or not. Talking about Ted's underwear (wet or dry) may be in
> poor taste, but it is obvious that it is done in good humor and without
> malice.
> I am not so sure that more delicate subjects can be as innocuous.
> 
> Joseph
> 
That computer translation seemed pretty innocuous. Maybe I should be reading
things into it I missed!
You are not aware that Guido knows that I am a friend. 
I was defending him in an off handed way against off handed offbeat attacks
against his masculinity at 3 am.
Mark Rabiner