[Leica] Photos on the Web and complainers

["Dan S" <dstate1@hotmail.com>]

Hans, don't take the comments personally or seriously.  One thing to look at 
is wether the complainers are members of the Leica users community.  If not 
then their opinion doesn't mean a damned thing.  If they ARE members and 
they have a problem then they should sign off and start their own darned web 
page (from which their images can STILL be hoisted at will by imaginary Big 
Brother Billionaires who have nothing to do with their time but check out 
our snapshots).

I for one think the Leica Users Community has been a great thing.  It is a 
place for people who like USING their cameras to share the results, without 
becomming a master of HTML. If anybody out there thinks that their 
photographs are just a pot of gold waiting to be spent they should be 
talking to magazine publishers and not griping on the lug.  For the rest of 
us folks firmly based in reality this is the only Leica based web photo 
forum available.

Certainly it is your decision wether this has been worth it for you. I can 
just bet it has been a hassle.  From the standpoint of a member however, I 
have enjoyed it and will continue to do so as long as it is available.

Dan States
chicago illinois

>From: "Hans Pahlen" <hans.pahlen@mark.komvux.se>
>Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Photos on the Web
>Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 18:44:43 +0100
>
>I can't help feeling a bit sad, as I was trying to do something for the 
>benefit of the rest of you on my spare time, and my reward are whinings and 
>complaints. It is easy to feel like dropping the whole idea, and spend my 
>time on better things.
>
>I hope it is perfectly clear to everyone that posting to the MSN involves a 
>certain risk.
>
>Like the rest of you, I don't know what it really means legally either, but 
>please stop this discussion. It is Friday evening, and I am alone at home 
>(my wife is in NYC), and after a couple of Scotch later on tonight, I might 
>just feel like killing the whole thing if you keep on whining. It just 
>takes one or two mouse-clicks to do it...
>
>Hans
>
> > If you don't understand what it is you are agreeing to (when you post 
>the
> > photos to that web site), then you are being foolish.  It has nothing to 
>do
> > with paranoia.
> >
> > Any way, they would NOT be 'ripping off' the photos, since you GAVE them 
>to
> > them of your own free will.
>
>

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