Re: [Leica] Re: Country of origin Smoke Screens

["Roland Smith" <roland@dnai.com>]

Well stated Jim.   It is perhaps time for the discussion to center around
the sorting out, interpretation and analysis of facts related to equipment
rather than target the messenger.

Roland Smith
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Brick" <jim_brick@agilent.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 7:51 AM
Subject: [Leica] Re: Country of origin Smoke Screens


> At 09:48 AM 11/30/00 -0500, khmiska wrote:
> >Stephen,
> >Wow. Finally somebody on my frequency. I'm new to the Leica game and
> >therefore know
> >nothing about the pompous Mr. Puts. Who is he? Is he a PR flak?, Leica
> >lobbyist? an
> >optical engineer? a mechanical engineer? a manufacturing engineer? Who
has
> >endowed
> >him with all this "wisdom?" Why does nearly everyone on the LUG bow,
> scrape and
> >a**k*** him? Can someone enlighten me?
> >Cordially,
> >Kurt Miska
> >German Business Translations
> >Ann Arbor, Michigan
> >
>
> I hate to tell you this Kurt, but you just pissed off roughly 1000+
LUGgers
> who have known and conversed with, many have met with, all have read his
> articles and papers published world wide, Mr. Erwin Puts, for a very long
> time. Years.
>
> I suggest you do a little research before walking through the cow pasture
> next time. You found where the cows were sleeping and are up to your neck
> in Ted's favorite lens cleaner.
>
> Out of the 1000+ LUGgers, there are 2.5 people who seem to have a problem
> with Erwin. I suspect this is because they cannot fathom that someone
could
> know something that they don't know.
>
> If you don't know Erwin's credentials, perhaps you should just simply ask
> him. He will tell you exactly what you want to know. He is indeed, a
> genuinely nice person. Making wild-ass accusations on the LUG is certainly
> not an intelligent way to go about obtaining information.
>
> Jim
>
> Erwin Puts - imxputs@ision.nl  and  imxputs@knoware.nl
>