Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well Jeffery, all lists are different and have different personalities, as they should or our choice would be awfully limited;-) ie. be on the list or don't. I subscribe on and off to one of the Topica groups and have found it OK. I've subscribed to LUG for a few months and that's been interesting too. As you know I own http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MUGers and co-moderate it with Jack Flesher. We're over 430 members there and quite honestly I've only stepped in and uttered a moderative word once in the entire time the group has existed. As Sonny said, there simply are NO battles or slanging matches. But I set that group up with that in mind. Everyone talks Leica in a civilised and friendly fashion and everyone gains from that. Geez, no-one even complains about showing PAWS etc..as that's been an essential part from the beginning. It's just a fun place to hang out and discuss a favourite subject; I don't think one has to take it any more seriously than that, quite honestly... Bare in mind that this is IN NO WAY A CRITICISM OF LUG!!! LUG is set up in a different way and that's just fine for those who like it and/or can take it. BUT...many people just don't enjoy the slanging matches and OT threads that go on forever and others may take offense to the language and others to the constant jives directed at them etc..etc...like others said, get out of the kitchen if you can't stand the heat...well, yes, OK.... That's kind of a selfish way to look at things, though, rather like thugs smashing up the one and only bar in town every night and then telling everyone else to go elsewhere if they don't like it. With regard to MUG, while I don't take offense to the odd OT posting and some fun jokes between members, I also don't really see the need to thrash each other over all things Leica and not Leica. Sometimes lists become places where people with enormous chips on their shoulders about one thing or another, come to take out their fustrations, a place where they attempt to seek out that schoolground bully and make him pay; no, they don't find the bully but, hey, anyone will do, right?....;-) Anyway, each to his/her own. LUG, LEG, MUG, each is different and thank goodness. Means when you get tired of one you can go over to the other and rest a while, whether your idea of resting is a friendly talk about Leica cameras and photography, or a good hearty fight with someone who just had it coming to them:-):-) - -Take Care, - -Duncan We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. http://www.leica-gallery.net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MUGers I agree. Sign up on some of the Topica lists that Sonny and I have been flamed off of for venturing off topic in the nicest of language! Now THOSE are well-monitored!! ;-) JLS To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html