Deakers? was Re: Leica-Users List Digest V1 #301 / allowing "dealers" in the LUG

[Chris Fortunko <fortunko@boulder.nist.gov>]

LUGs,

I dont object to the dealers being members of this group as long as they act
as private individuals. I certainly don't mind people who service cameras.
Both can enrich this group.

To post the advertising, they typically use the WWW. What I do not wish to
see is self-serving comments, etc.

I would vote for reforming the by-laws. 

And most certainly, do not force authors of good books off this forum. We
would then suffer from the loss of a certain author of books on Zeiss
cameras and other literati.

Regards,

Chris



At 06:31 AM 12/20/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear List Manager and fellow LUG's,
>
>I, for one, vote to have the bylaws changed - if they're flexible. 
>
>What can it hurt to let people such as Don C in?  Aren't we all here to
>know as much about Leicas as we can?  I'd wager you'd find few people who
>have touched as many Leicas as people like Don Chatterton, Tamarkin and so
>on.  They have a WEALTH of things to teach us, show us, correct our
>thinking. 
>
>This is like buying a 911 and your sister marries a Porsche mechanic 
>named Hans from Zuffenhausen or something .... manna from Heaven!  
>
>Gee, what if Dan Goldberg or a crack repairperson were to join - clearly
>someone Leica owners would almost KILL to be able to tap into their wealth
>of knowledge?  Boot THEM out too....shooting ourselves in the foot?
>
>If getting these prima-donna little boxes repaired and finding parts and
>accessories for them isn't the crux of what the group does - beside snap a
>few photos from time-to-time - what are we all doing here anyway? 
>
>The biggest 'sin' would be if Don Chatterton - or anyone for that matter -
>started using "the list" to at-large e-mail us tons and tons of commercial
>business.  THAT I would find offensive.  Like.....the world has ENOUGH
>junk mail as it is.  If I wanna see Don's current offerings, I'll thumb
>thru Shutterbug.
>
>LUG is about knowing and growing....learning and helping others....so I 
>thought.
>
>Kinda unwise isn't it - and discriminatory - to turn someone away who puts
>bread on his or her table working at the very foundation of the business
>that put the cameras we own in our hands? 
>
>The day a group such as this turns a person like Don Chatterton or ANY 
>well-respected Leica businessperson away is the day you'd slam the door 
>in your own mother's face on her birthday. 
>
>Regards,
>
>Tom Hodge
>PO Box 687
>Davidson, North Carolina  USA  28036
>thodge@charweb.org
>
>(Down here, we practically INVENTED discrimination.  Trust me:  It's ugly
>in whatever form you care to view it.)
>
>