Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] return of the LUG police ?(was: Leica lenses)
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 08:29:45 -0600

At 09:51 AM 2/21/99 +0100, you wrote:
>And "we" should sometimes me more careful
>in trying not to behave like a sect.

Alan,

You are correct. We need to be polite, and be considerate of other people's 
feelings. But how many of those "victims" you characterize come in here 
telling us we Leica people are a bunch of elitist snobs who wouldn't know 
the difference between a good and great lens. They come in with big sticks 
on their shoulders just daring us to knock them off. Some people come in 
sounding like the Monty Python skit "Yes it is, not it isn't. Yes it is, no 
it isn't. Is, isn't."

For example, how often am I told, indirectly, that I don't know what I'm 
talking about because I'm stupid enough to invest in R equipment when Nikon 
and Canon are the only real alternatives (except that Olympus is cool, if 
old, Pentax has polite reps and Minolta is a better choice too. I keep 
expecting to hear Alpa is a better choice!).

I already welcomed you to that group, by the way - the stupid R buyers... :-)

Sectarian behavior is one thing, plain rudeness is another. We don't need 
either.

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

When there's a will, I want to be in it.