[Leica] Re: Buried Hatchets

[Allan Wafkowski <allan@sohogurus.net>]

Would someone tell me how I can subscribe to Put's newsletter?

Thanks,
Allan


On Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at 04:11 PM, B. D. Colen wrote:

> Well, I certainly thought the proverbial hatchet had been buried - when 
> lo
> and behold, I discover that there's nothing proverbial about it, and 
> it's
> been buried in my back, from the shelter of what is a one-way mailing 
> list.
> -------
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 17:33:06 +0100, Erwin Puts <imxputs@ision.nl> wrote 
> in
> his newsletter:
>
>
> My M7 report has been the source of some controversy and has triggered 
> some
> individuals into expressing themselves in remarkably rude language. 
> Some of
> them can be found in the greenspun list, some on the Lug and other 
> lists.
>
> B.D. Colen is one of more outspoken individuals who seems compelled to
> believe that I am not able of writing sensibly about Leica and that I 
> must
> be paid by leica to write that prose. there are some others who have
> automatically accepted as fact that I am on Leica¹s payroll.
> I got some emails by persons who want to stay anonymous (out of fear!) 
> that
> one is not allowed to quarrel with Mr Colen and when doing were forced 
> off
> from the lists they were on.
> This is indeed a sorry affair. As soon as the power of facts and 
> arguments
> has been set aside and the power of rhetoric and authority (³I am a 
> Pulitzer
> Price Winner and therefore what I have to say may not be questioned²) 
> takes
> over, we have returned to the Dark Ages.
> Enough of this: find below my answer, which explains and illuminates my 
> role
> in the leica community.
>
>> While I do not feel in any way obliged to answer B.D. questions, which 
>> in
> my view are crossing the line of the privacy of the individual, I will
> present here my position..."
>
>
>
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