Re: [Leica] Re: Comments about Erwin Puts

[Javier Perez <summarex@yahoo.com>]

You are forgetting that most of these 
lug guys don't have a professional reputation to
maintain and wouldn't know how if they did.


- --- "Sal DiMarco,Jr." <sdmp007@pressroom.com> wrote:
> Lug Nuts,
>     For those of you who have been wondering why
> Erwin Puts chose to stop
> his newsletter, may be you should ask yourselves, if
> YOU would like to be
> referred to at "St. So and So," or "The Lord?" The
> terms are insulting!
> Smiley faces or not, just plain insulting.
>     How many of you, would like to constantly have
> you integrity challenged?
> How many times does the man have to say, he is not
> on the Leica payroll?
>     Erwin drew a lot of flack for his M7 review.
> Why, because he had an M7
> to evaluate long before anyone else and he was
> brought in early on the
> camera's development?
>     Personally, I was shocked when a retired
> journalist questioned Erwin's
> integrity on the LUG. As a journalist, this man
> should know about
> "cultivating sources," "background briefings" and
> terms like "off the
> record."
>     There was nothing wrong or unethical in Erwin's
> behavior as a
> journalist.
>     What most of you forget, is Erwin has the
> knowledge to talk to the Leica
> designers on their own terms. He speaks their
> language, and I don't mean
> German! He possess a deep understanding optical and
> mechanical design,
> that's why he gets the inside information, because
> he understands them and
> they don't have to speak in two syllable words to be
> understood AND they
> trust him to abide by the guidelines both sides
> agreed upon.
>     I have, yet, to see anyone of you refute any of
> this findings!
>     OK, he speaks glowingly about Leica.. Show me
> where he is wrong. Not
> opinions,  facts.
>     I have yet to meet an intelligent person in any
> field, who resents
> valid, well thought out criticism of their work or
> products.
>     A large part, if not most, of the critical
> opinions posted on the LUG do
> not fall into this category.
>     Erwin Puts has more to offer this forum and any
> of us, myself included.
>     As a subscriber to his newsletter, to those of
> you who drove him off,
> thank you...
> End of Rant,
> Sal DiMarco, Jr.
> Philadelphia, PA
> 
> 
> Web Site: http://members.fcc.net/sal.dimarcojr
> 
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