Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/02

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Subject: [Leica] Impersonation
From: "Gib Robinson" <robinson@sfsu.edu>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 07:17:20 -0700
 
[Arturo wrote]

> 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!!

A number of people -- me included -- went out to check on the story because
we believed the source to be reliable. Impersonation undermines that
reliability.

- --Gib