Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Some ideas for a new R
From: "Bill Christensen" <billc@xsite.net>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 13:10:00 -0500
References: <22.98dd16a.26c04ee2@aol.com>

Chuck,

Your reply to Ted accomplishes only one thing.  You diminish yourself.
Please keep this list civl!

Bill Christensen
- ----- Original Message -----
From: <Ccl1396915541@aol.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Some ideas for a new R


> In a message dated 8/7/00 11:07:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> tedgrant@home.com writes:
>
> << Look, if you can't afford the ticket don't complain about the price or
>  operation of the product!  Buy what you can afford, live with it and
>  don't keep making stupid non business like, suggestions about the
>  product.  Simply because, we who can afford them, work the hell out of
>  them for years and don't have the mickey mouse complaints that the
>  whiners have who can't afford them!
>
>  Leica is Leica for what it is,  as many of us who have used them, not
>  played and toyed with them for many years will attest..... "We are
>  generally just as happy as clams in hot soup with our Leicas!" We have
>  no whining suggestions as it's very simple for us, "We love the cameras,
>  M , R or whatever version we have!"
>
>  Buy what you can afford and have a happy time taking pictures rather
>  than whining about Leica! So please let the whining rest, thanks!
>  ted
>
>   >>
>
> Well, even if I got a free new camera from Leica for my old broken one
like
> you did, I still wouldn't be an arrogant snob asshole and look down my
brown
> nose at us poor bastards who don't get special treatment and don't like
> burning our money.  And what the hell do you know about what other people
can
> and can't afford and what the hell gives you the right to make those
> judgments?  An F4 cost as much as an R8, but it worked.  I'll have a great
> trip while you few self-appointed masters piss on all the good folks who,
I'm
> surprised, haven't unsubscsribed yet.
>
> Chuck
>

Replies: Reply from Wilber Jeffcoat <jeffcoatphoto@sumter.net> (Re: [Leica] Some ideas for a new R)
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