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Subject: Re: [Leica]FS:Photo books and prints by Albert Wang, first three copies for free
From: "Stuart Phillips" <stuart.phillips@rcn.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 10:28:49 -0400
References: <200209062143.OAA28703@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> <3D7A041E.4CEB0E2E@ccs.carleton.ca>

I think the difference here is the first two letters of the subject: FS.
What is for sale is clearly not what is advertized. That with those two
letters, the subject matter moves swiftly out of the area of critique (and
the academic comparison is clearly a red herring) into trade. Go to the
archives - THERE is the history of a critique, from many of the long-term
members of this list, including presumably some of the mentally healthy
people you admire who in the end couldn't decide if Alfie was for real. If a
merchant has a history of misrepresenting his wares, we are entitled to know
about it. Fair and simple. When I read the first post I WAS taken in. Only
later to be alerted by other posts. For those prices, go to the back of
Black and White Magazine and buy some real photography.

Sorry you won't read any of this. Hope you enjoy your limited (very limited)
edition (any size you want as long as it fits in a Xerox machine)

stuart phillips
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Langer" <mlanger@ccs.carleton.ca>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; <mlanger@ccs.carleton.ca>
Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 9:50 AM
Subject: RE: [Leica]FS:Photo books and prints by Albert Wang, first three
copies for free


>
>
>
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 14:49:26 -0400
> > From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
> > Subject: RE: [Leica] FS: Photo books and prints by Albert Wang, first
three copies for free.
> > Message-ID: <MBBBJHIBKCKEAEOKKBPOMEENEHAA.bdcolen@earthlink.net>
> > References:
> >
> > I'll address the issue, Mark.   <snip>
>
> > I feel
> > we have every right to publically respond to his [Alfie's] offer by
telling him
> > honestly how we feel about it:
> >
>
> I have no problem with that, B.D.  I hold Alfie's talents in no high
regard myself.  My objection lies elsewhere.  Please try to follow the point
I'm making.
>
>
> >
> > In my case that means saying that if I had a student who produced work
of
> > this quality I would not hesitate to give him or her an F.
>
> I happen to be a professor, and I too would give Alfie an F.  But if I
commented on a student's paper with the kind of vitriol that I read on this
list, I would be hauled in front of the Dean pronto, and
> with good cause too.
>
>
> > As I said
> > earlier, I consider Alfie's posing as a photographer - for that is truly
> > what he is doing - an real insult to every photographer on this list.
> >
> > I personally think it would be sad to see someone leave the LUG because
they
> > feel it is inappropriate to speak truthfully. But if that's what you
want to
> > do, so be it.
> >
>
> What I see on this list is a confusion between speaking truthfully and
intemperately.  By all means, people should feel free to express their
displeasure honestly.  I'm only suggesting that when they do,
> their first thing they should ask themselves is whether they are
expressing themselves courteously.  Right now, it appears that the first
question many respondents ask themselves in penning a response is
> whether there are one or two "l"s in "disembowelled."
>
> My objection is that people act incivilly (to put it mildly) and then
defend their insulting and objectional behaviour by wrapping themselves
self-righteously in the mantle of free speech.  There are such
> things as netiquette or ordinary decency, and surely even the most savage
message-writers should be able to grasp the concept that they might be able
to communicate their opinions on this list without doing
> it in such vituperative terms that they drive away many productive
contributors.  Ted Grant appears to be just one of the most recent in a long
line of people fleeing from such onslaughts.  How long will it
> take before the list is reduced to a bunch of cranks shaking their fists
and cursing everything?  It appears to be dangerously close to that now -- I
offer the fascinating example of social pathology
> demonstrated by the "Canadian Health Care System and Slavery" thread as a
recent manifestation.
>
> Right now, I'm receiving LUG in digest form, and usually delete most
digests unread when I see a flame war taking place.  The loss of so many
people on this list has reduced me to the point where I receive
> it for the isolated insights now available, the chance to see the
photography of people like Nathan, the chance for a window on the wonderful
people of Natichoches (sp?), to marvel at the company Kyle keeps,
> to see what advice Tina disseminates, or to see what's for sale.  The
proportion of this wheat to sociopathic chaff diminishes steadily.
>
> That's all I have to say on the matter, and as I am not a mental health
care professional, I have little hope that anything I say will do any good.
Once more, I urge people on this list to consider the
> effect their means of expressing themselves is having on the general
well-being of LUG.  When you reply to this B.D. (I have no doubt that you
will, since you appear to be pathologically devoted to having
> the last word on everything), keep in mind that I will not respond, and
that I will delete your email unread.
>
> Mark
>
>
> >
> > B. D.
> >
> > - -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mark Langer
> > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 2:16 PM
> > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > Subject: RE:[Leica] FS: Photo books and prints by Albert Wang, first
> > three copies for free.
> >
> > >
> >
> > Hear that noise?  It is the sound of another 30 people unsubscribing
from
> > this list and joining LEG.
> >
> > Without engaging in debate on the issue of the quality of Albert's work,
> > when are people going to clue in to the fact that the general lack of
> > civility is really
> > messing up this list?  And please, spare me the "don't let the door hit
you
> > on your way out" remarks, gang.  That doesn't address the issue.
> >
> > Mark
> >
>
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In reply to: Message from Mark Langer <mlanger@ccs.carleton.ca> (RE: [Leica]FS:Photo books and prints by Albert Wang, first three copies for free)