Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marvin wrote: <<<< Most emphatically NO -.>>>>>>>> Thank goodness another wise LUGGER! I know the earlier personal profile was a good idea, it was a great information thing and made me understand fellow luggers and luggetts more so. But in posting what "EQUIPMENT" we own is like waving a red flag in the face of a bull. It's a known fact to police that crooks and thieves use the internet to learn about various "life styles of careless and unwary information givers." And when you do that, they find out where you live and don't think it only happens in certain areas like north America, It happens right around the world as fast as our e-mail goes! So what we have here is LUG members divulging their lifes worth of gear openly for the "world to see!" The criminal element are not all morons some folks think they are. These days they are very sophisticated and interconnected just like we are. You post you have this big bundle of bits and pieces and even if one of the thieves doesn't know what a Leica is, they can find out very quickly it's worth and "POOF!" Welcome home to an empty house of photographic equipment. And that's the problem I have, it's the equipment posting. Not the personal, "Hi I'm an engineer or doctor or truck driver, professor whatever." I feel very strongly this open and obvious listing of equipment is a big mistake in todays world. Some of you may think it's cool to tell the the members you own every camera and lens Leica makes, but you may find "you don't own it much longer." And this equipment collecting list has absolutely nothing to do with how we collected the personal profiles earlier, which I feel was an interesting bonding for members. However I'm not laying out everything I own simply because I don't want to replace what goes missing and in that, many things which are completely irreplaceable! During normal postings and we menton certain equipment it isn't an obvious message and gets skipped over. Folks do as you wish, but may I suggest , "Don't come cryig with a posting that your home was ripped clean! You wont get any sympathy! certainly from me! This is meant to be a very serious posting, please don't take it lightly!!!!!! It may save your ass! ted