Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/14

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Subject: [Leica] You're just a bunch of LUGS!
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Wed Apr 14 09:00:00 2004

For me it's just the pictures you all make that keep me coming back. Even if
I have to wrestle through about 300 mails after being away for 3 days.

Also, I would like to support the "having back fun" theory posted here
lately concerning the Digilux 2 :)

> From: Jim Hemenway <Jim@hemenway.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:54:49 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] You're just a bunch of LUGS!
> 
> Checking the LUG, at least in the morning, is as necessary to me as my
> first cuppa coffee. Pretty much the same for the RUG.... kinda.
> 
> My thanks too, to Brian... for the LUG and the Leica knowledge that I've
> gained... and especially for allowing threads related to digital
> cameras, hats, drinks and other alien topics. That's a big part of what
> makes the LUG such a magnet to me.
> 
> I know when he has had enough though, when my last post on a subject
> doesn't seems to make it to the list. :-)
> 
> Jim - http://www.hemenway.com
> 
> 
> B. D. Colen wrote:
> 
>> Let me second everything here, including and especially the thanks to
>> Brian for making this possible, and add that I have long viewed the LUG
>> as a cyberspace country store, where people gather to warm their hands
>> around the stove, trade tall-tales and advice, touch base with friends,
>> and perhaps even pick up a needed item (or bit of knowledge in the case
>> of the LUG). Yes, Leica ownership is what has drawn us all to this
>> particular store, but once in the door and leaning back in the rickety
>> chairs, that doesn't seem quite so important.
>> 
>> What I am constantly amazed by his how a list such as this draws
>> together people from all over the world, with common interests, who
>> would otherwise be utterly unaware of each other's existence. As I've
>> said before, several of the people who I now count among my small circle
>> of really close friends are people who I not only met on the LUG, but
>> who just happen to live within 5-10 miles of my home, people with whom I
>> have an enormous amount in common - beyond owning Leica Ms that are
>> gathering dust - and whom I would not know were it not for this on-line
>> community.
>> 
>> I also never cease to be amazed that the 'media' has not done more
>> reporting on the phenomenon of groups like the LUG, and the power of the
>> internet to create communities of people all over the globe; well,
>> communities of people whose common interest is something other than
>> pornography. :-)
>> 
>> B. D.
> 
> 
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