Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:First PAW
From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 09:41:02 -0700
References: <200206070145.SAA18756@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> <5.1.0.14.0.20020607081713.037b3048@pop.runbox.com>

Jeffery,

Please accept my apologies.... I am sorry you interpreted my post in the
manner you have; I never meant to ridicule you.

regards,
ted


Ted Grant Photography Limited
www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
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From: "Jeffery Smith" <jls@runbox.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 6:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:First PAW


> Ted,
>
> I suppose when the constructive comments are given in a civil, supportive
> tone, it's unreasonable to get ass twitchy. When the constructive comments
> are given in a tone that is more like ridicule, it makes folks bristle a
> bit. I never been a professional photographer, but I've been a teacher for
> decades. If I publicly humiliated a student with the intent of helping him
> constructively, I'd have every reason for the student to resent it. You
> claim that you gave me fair warning by stating in the first few sentences
> that you were going to rip me apart, and then you proceeded to do so in
the
> same post.  I think fair warning would have been sending me an email off
> list saying "Do you mind if I denigrate your picture on the LUG?" and I
> could have come back and said "No thanks, Ted; I'd prefer to withdraw my
> invitation for comments". Threatening to do something and then doing it in
> the same breath is hardly fair warning.
>
> JLS
>
>
>
> At 11:12 PM 6/6/2002 -0500, Ted wrote:
> > >Hopefully you'll not be one of the people who ask for comments and then
> >become all ass twitchy because someone actually makes a constructive
> >comment.
>
>
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