Re: [Leica] changes in the LUG

[felix tian <felix_tian@yahoo.com>]

Hi, Charlie, 

Totally agree with you. Where is the submini list you
mentioned? I would like to give it a shot. 

Regards, 

Felix 


- --- Summicron1@aol.com wrote:
> dear erwin and LUG,
> 
> Erwin recently wrote a long thing about how the LUG
> seems to have changed and 
> posited that LUG users have gone through all their
> questions on topic and are 
> now using the LUG as a forum for other opinions,
> having nothing else to talk 
> about.
> 
> This is probably the case. The solution should be
> obvious. You guys who sit 
> at a computer for more than half an hour a day
> answering the LUG, turn off 
> the computer.  You guys who post to it more than
> once a day, take a break. 
> You're letting it take over your life.
> 
> Make a new year resolution on October to only answer
> the LUG once a week. 
> Spend the resulting time out shooting pictures, or
> reading a book, or getting 
> to know your kids again. Only post something to the
> LUG if you have a 
> specific question that needs to be answered or a
> specific camera topic to 
> discuss. If someone puts something up that you feel
> a need to answer before 
> your week is gone, make a note and wait. It will
> keep.
> 
> This will make the LUG a much more compact, friendly
> place and you'll be a 
> lot less stressed out. You'll no longer feel a need
> to write three screens of 
> argument getting people to realize how important it
> is that their filters be 
> put on the lens small-end out (or something equally
> trivial.) Your life will 
> be a calmer place. Your wife will quit looking at
> you funny.
> 
> I just signed onto the submini list, which allegedly
> has 200 members (LUG has 
> what? 700?) and i don't even take the digest. So far
> I've only had two or 
> three e-mails a day, the most was five. All were on
> camera topics, pleasantly 
> read and dealt with. I've even managed to sell some
> of my excess Minolta 16 
> film cassettes. ($10 each, guaranteed genuine if
> you're interested).
> 
> LUG could be like this if the members would quit
> trying to use it as a method 
> of self expression and get back to using it as a way
> to talk to others with 
> shared interest. Don't give it so much importance in
> your life.
> 
> Really, a good image is worth more than an opinion
> shared, and photography is 
> a lot of fun to talk about. If someone disagrees
> with you on some other 
> subject, leave them in their ignorance. You'll both
> be happier.
> 
> charlie trentelman
> Ogden, Utah
> 


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