Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M7 .72
From: "Art Sala" <artsala@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 21:55:59 -0700

Relax Gib.  What difference does it make if LUG recognizes a fraud for what
it is?  Impersonating a LUG icon (yes, you Tom A) is futile.  The beauty of
the net is its ultimate (and international) incarnation of the First
Amendment.  Little, if any, intervention here!!

Cheers,
Arturo 

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> From: Gib Robinson <robinson@sfsu.edu>
> To: Leica List <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Subject: [Leica] M7 .72
> Date: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 8:46 PM
> 
> The announcement of an M7 .72 purportedly signed by Tom Abrahamson has
the
> e-mail address of Toshihito Ozaki (toto__oz@hotmail.com). Unless there is
> other evidence, I would have to assume Toshihito Ozaki wrote a message to
> the list and signed it with another member's name. I don't know whether
> there is a policy about falsifying other people's names on this list;
but,
> if not, I suggest we make one. In my view, anyone falsifying another
> member's "signature" should be warned the first time and eliminated from
the
> list on the second occasion. To me, signing some else's name to a message
is
> not a joke.
> 
> --Gib Robinson
> 
>