Re: [Leica] OK ....I get it now,

[Walter S Delesandri <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu>]

No we're not yes we are no we're not yes we are no we're not yes we are

Ha, got ya, no, we're NOT the same person....but someone else here 
on this group accused me of being a ficticious person....I'll assure, 
to the disappointment of MANY people, I really exist!! (do not do too
do not do too.....)
CU and happy weekend, 
Walt

On
Fri, 8 Jan 1999, David Medley wrote:

> one of you guy's isn't really there...are you?  Mark or Walt (whichever) is
> just a pen name for the other and this has all been just a big joke on the
> rest of us.........right?
> 
> Cheers,
> David Medley
> Whidbey Is.   WA
> USA
> dmedley@whidbey.net
> 
> 
> 
> From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Cc: Walter S Delesandri <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu>
> Date: Friday, January 08, 1999 2:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Cassettes
> 
> 
> >At 12:54 PM 1999-01-08 -0600, Walter S Delesandri, yet once again, made a
> >fool of himself by writing:
> >>Yes, those thieving japs.....the same ones that brought us those
> >>crappy Nikons -- you know, that junky F/F2 and that piss-poor
> >>Nikon SP -- the one that kicked the ass of Leitz/Zeiss.....
> >>How dare them make the finest cameras yet built and price them
> >>so that a mortal could buy them......the bastards.
> >
> >
> >Try out the truth, brother:  the Japanese optical industry STOLE -- took
> >without paying! -- German designs, and the Allies refused to allow Zeiss
> >and Leitz and Voigtlander to protect themselves at law.  They got a free
> >start.  Zeiss had been designing optical devices for 99 years when the
> >Japanese simply TOOK what they wanted.
> >
> >Any morons, even the most idiotic buffoons, could build a profitable
> >industry on this.  Think on it, and don't answer UNTIL you have thought, as
> >you have a deplorable trait of suffering from foot-in-mouth disease.  IF
> >you were granted the right to theft all of Nikon or Canon's patents,
> >guaranteed, no penalties, RIGHT NOW -- couldn't you establish one heck of a
> >camera company on this foundation?
> >
> >No, the Japanese are thieves.  Those who buy Canon or Nikon gear are
> >abetting thievery.  The history is clean and clear.  Sure, I've shot Canon
> >for years -- but the ethics of it bother me, intensely.  (I DID shoot
> >Nikon, in the early '70's, but the F2 I had was the poorest excuse for junk
> >I've ever used, and cured me of this, permanently.  This was a camera which
> >FED would have been embarrassed to have sold.  The dealer refused to
> >replace it, as, so HE said, all F2's were junk.  I got a Canon, instead,
> >but, a decade later, learned the truth about the thieveries, and began to
> >tailor my equipment to what I was comfortable with.)
> >
> >Marc
> >
> >msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
> >Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
> >
>