Re: [Leica] Some ideas for a new R

[Wilber Jeffcoat <jeffcoatphoto@sumter.net>]

Chuck MY,My,My,My,My. Did someone touch a raw nerve???????
Cheers Wilber

Bill Christensen wrote:

> Chuck,
>
> Your reply to Ted accomplishes only one thing.  You diminish yourself.
> Please keep this list civl!
>
> Bill Christensen
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Ccl1396915541@aol.com>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 12:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Some ideas for a new R
>
> > In a message dated 8/7/00 11:07:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > tedgrant@home.com writes:
> >
> > << Look, if you can't afford the ticket don't complain about the price or
> >  operation of the product!  Buy what you can afford, live with it and
> >  don't keep making stupid non business like, suggestions about the
> >  product.  Simply because, we who can afford them, work the hell out of
> >  them for years and don't have the mickey mouse complaints that the
> >  whiners have who can't afford them!
> >
> >  Leica is Leica for what it is,  as many of us who have used them, not
> >  played and toyed with them for many years will attest..... "We are
> >  generally just as happy as clams in hot soup with our Leicas!" We have
> >  no whining suggestions as it's very simple for us, "We love the cameras,
> >  M , R or whatever version we have!"
> >
> >  Buy what you can afford and have a happy time taking pictures rather
> >  than whining about Leica! So please let the whining rest, thanks!
> >  ted
> >
> >   >>
> >
> > Well, even if I got a free new camera from Leica for my old broken one
> like
> > you did, I still wouldn't be an arrogant snob asshole and look down my
> brown
> > nose at us poor bastards who don't get special treatment and don't like
> > burning our money.  And what the hell do you know about what other people
> can
> > and can't afford and what the hell gives you the right to make those
> > judgments?  An F4 cost as much as an R8, but it worked.  I'll have a great
> > trip while you few self-appointed masters piss on all the good folks who,
> I'm
> > surprised, haven't unsubscsribed yet.
> >
> > Chuck
> >