Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/12

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Subject: [Leica] B.D. -- you always have the last say !!
From: Henry Ting <henryting10@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 20:42:26 -0700 (PDT)

And by winning the battle, you lost the war.

- --- "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I would suggest that it is quite bizarre - and I use
> the word advisedly -
> that someone who has chosen to publically hold
> himself out as an expert on a
> subject - to the point of having a book published on
> that subject - would
> withdraw from public because a few "oafs" have
> criticized him. If every
> expert, or author, behaved the same way when
> critized virtually no one would
> ever publish a second book, or write about any
> subject after their first
> publication.
> 
> Very, very bizarre indeed.
> 
> B. D. Colen
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ken Lassiter <kenlass@gate.net>
> To: Puts, Erwin <imxputs@knoware.nl>
> Cc: Leica Users Forum
> <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 5:33 PM
> Subject: [Leica] No! No!, Erwin!
> 
> 
> > Erwin:
> >
> > I shall miss your newsletters.  You do not know me
> but I have been in
> > publishing and writing most of my life -- since
> 1960.  I was a technical
> > editor in publications at Kodak for 25 years and
> the Director for ten
> > years.  Now, retired, I spend much of my time
> writing about photography,
> > photographers and organizing events in
> photography.  I admire you and
> > the articles you write.  And I have been reading
> about Leicas ever since
> > I bought my first M3 -- which I still have -- in
> 1955.
> >
> > Do not let the oafs on the LUG get you down.  As a
> fellow editor, I know
> > all editors must have a thick skin.  There are
> many more of us who do
> > appreciate you and your writing than those who
> would disparage you.  We
> > just do not make as much noise as the critics do.
> >
> > Anyone who disagrees with you or does not want to
> read your opinions has
> > a ready-made solution: hit the Delete Key.  Having
> said that, I
> > sometimes find myself a little credulous at some
> of the things you
> > write.  So even I do not automatically agree with
> everything you say.
> > But is that not what the Leica Users Group Forum
> is for?
> >
> > Try writing this line a few times:
> >
> > "I will not let anyone on the LUG upset me.
> > I will not let anyone on the LUG upset me.
> > I will not let anyone on the LUG upset me.
> > I will not let anyone on the LUG upset me.
> > ...etc."
> >
> > With admiration and warm regards... Ken Lassiter,
> Boynton Beach, FL
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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