Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >