Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bill Erfurth wrote: > > What I am suggesting is that we make arrangements to submit a list of > questions to the factory. The way I see it, that procedure would be > to submit a CAREFULLY EDITED list of questions, maybe once a month, to > a particular individual at Leica (Solms). > Considering the flame wars that range on this list from everything from what Scotch to drink, to the future of photography, the likelihood that the 700 of us could agree on a single list of items to send to Leica in an official capacity is slim indeed. To further require such a list to be (a) intelligent, (b) related to current or future products and (c) non-threatening is slightly less probable than waking up tomorrow to find the Earth's rotation has changed direction. Don't get me wrong: I love this list, nonsense and all. It's a great source of information and enjoyment and I've made many friends over the past year or so whom I would never have made contact with otherwise. But this is an Internet community: They are not like other communitites and, in particular, they do not submit to calm order. There seems to be something inherent in the medium that promotes outspoken individualism (which I'm perfectly happy with). The suggestion is nice, but I don't think it is realistic. M. - -- Martin V. Howard, Application Systems Laboratory, | Dept. of Comp. & Info. Sci., Linkoping University, | Just "DOHH" it! SE-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden. Tel +46 13 282 421, +----------------+ Fax +46 13 142 231; marho@ida.liu.se; www.ida.liu.se/~marho