Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/22

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Subject: Re: Mr Erwin Puts' post
From: "Roger Beamon" <beamon@primenet.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 08:58:34 -700

Thus spake Paul T. Collura on 21 Feb 97:
<snip>

>I too would welcome more
> international participation. The Leica is an international camera
> and the LUG should reflect this fact.

Though it may not be international enough to satisfy you, one must 
look very hard to find an INTERNET list that is dedicated to a 
product that has a more diverse subscriber list than this. Diversity 
is automatic when conditions are correct. They are correct on this 
list and it reflects that already.

Again, LHSA's VIEWFINDER may be too collector oriented for you, BUT, 
it is a heck of a lot less so than in the past. The thing that has 
happened under the just ended stewardship of Roy Moss is that the 
content has begun to much more carefully reflect the fact that both 
collectors and users comprise the membership. Roy's editorials, 
often, addressed issues that were user oriented. His blast at Leica's 
price structure, just before retiring as editor, whether you agree 
with it or not, was certainly fodder for the users.

The future course of VIEWFINDER under previous editor, now again 
editor, Randol Hooper will be interesting to chart.
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Roger Beamon  
       Naturalist & Photographer
       Docent: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
       Leica Historical Society Of America
       mailto:beamon@primenet.com