Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:45 AM 26-06-97 +0200, Gerard Captijn wrote: >>But I bet they monitor this group anyway. Being born in the Detroit area, >>I have several friends who work for the Big 3. At Ford, the Mustang team >>regularly monitors what's happening in the Mustang newsgroup even though >>they never get involved in the general discussions. There probably isn't a >>better way to find out what the faithful think than to follow the various >>threads you find in a newsgroup, be it Leicas, Mustangs or whatever. >> > >Leica Solms monitors the LUG without participating. I think that it would be >really interesting to have Leica's key technical people now and then on the >LUG (rather than marketing people). As an exemple, Lothar Kolsch, who >designs Leica glass, explaining his design choices for the Summicron >f35mm/f2.0. >He published articles in German photographic magazines. Why do it only on >paper and not on the net? Wolfgang Vollrath, the previous Leica optical >engineer, regularly wrote articles in Leica Photography. Try sending a 'who' command to the list server to get a list of all of the name of the list subscribers, and see if you recognize any names of people working for Leica Solms. Dab C.