Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oh Gawd! Mark, now the Danes'll be spamming you for making a remark about Denmark ( They do make delicious ham, though!). You must step lightly, even if you don't relax! Dan (aka Lars Bloodaxe of Elsinore) on my eighth cup of COFFEE foR ThE Day! }o) (Best I could do to put horns on my helmet!) - ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 1:57 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Impersonation > Gib Robinson wrote: > > > > [Arturo wrote] > > > > > Relax Gib. What difference does it make if LUG recognizes a fraud for > > what > > > it is? Impersonating a LUG icon (yes, you Tom A) is futile. The beauty > > of > > > the net is its ultimate (and international) incarnation of the First > > > Amendment. Little, if any, intervention here!! > > > > A number of people -- me included -- went out to check on the story because > > we believed the source to be reliable. Impersonation undermines that > > reliability. > > > > --Gib > > I hate being told to relax. It never makes me relaxed. Quite the opposite. > Here you had made a strong clear forceful and needed point. No relaxation was needed. > But I wonder why this guy was so easily traceable. Like the Wizard behind that > very small curtain. > It's possible that instead of this being a clear case of off center stupidity it > might involve some less obvious more convoluted perversions. Isn't this > exciting!? And I am getting spammed. like crazy now too! But with a big enough > barrel in Denmark there's bound to be a rotten apple Danish or otherwise. They > don't keep very well in those barrels. > Mark Rabiner