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

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Erwin's departure from public :-(
From: Javier Perez <summarex@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 11:45:56 -0700 (PDT)

That's exaktly it. 
Furthermore
When politicians respond to adversarial viewpoints
with personal attacks we call them scoundrils. What
then should we call those who do the same thing on the
lug?
Javier

- --- Marc James Small <msmall@infi.net> wrote:
> 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
> 
> msmall@infi.net  FAX:  +276/343-7315
> Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!
> 
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