Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Success crisis
From: Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 23:17:44 -0800
References: <12188195.1011734471@cambric.reid.org>

At 9:21 PM -0800 1/22/02, Brian Reid wrote:
>The Picture A Week movement, bravely started by Kyle Cassidy last 
>year, is an amazing success. I am absolutely thrilled that so many 
>people are actually taking pictures with their Leicas.
>
>It does, though, present for the LUG what we in the computer 
>industry call a "success crisis". The traffic on the LUG has 
>increased dramatically since so many people jumped in to PAW. I 
>can't possibly object; this is what it's all about, but I do have to 
>find a way to focus the PAW traffic somehow.
>
>I have a few ideas. Like so many other ideas, they involve 
>programming computers to do things somewhat differently. In the 
>meantime, how would people feel about a sub-list whose entire 
>purpose was PAW critiques. I'm not proposing this as a long-term 
>solution, but it might ameliorate things in the short term.
>
>Brian Reid
>LUG Barkeeper

This looks to me like a precedent setting post. To be dragged into 
the light in dark times :-).

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