Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/13

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Erwin's departure from public :-(
From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 23:20:04 +1000
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>At 12:34 AM 4/13/02 -0400, Austin Franklin wrote:
>>
>>Hold on here.  That's BS.  NO ONE FORCED HIM FROM THE LUG!
>>
>>Also, I don't know about denigrating, ridiculing, but it IS perfectly
>>appropriate to criticize, question, challenge and debate issues here, no
>>matter WHO the author is.
>>
>
>Austin
>
>And that is the exact problem.  Since the early days of the LUG, no one of
>us has challenged Erwin on the issues he raises.  Every challenge, every
>single blessed attack, over the past five years has been a challenge to his
>integrity and character and not one single word questioning his testing
>methodologies or results.
>
>If BD and the other Erwin-baiters had chosen to contest the issues instead
>of Erwin's character, we all would have benefited.  As it is, the entire
>LUG has been lessened by the negativism and nastiness of these character
>assaults.  They served no purpose and only make the entire forum seem cheap
>and ratty.
>
>Marc

I agree
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In reply to: Message from Skip Williams <skipwilliams@pobox.com> ([Leica] Erwin's departure from public :-()
Message from Marc James Small <msmall@infi.net> (RE: [Leica] Erwin's departure from public :-()