Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Brian I think you are running a great list with little interfearence and you have managed to keep a great bunch of people together in a beatiful mix of leica knowledge and all kind of interesting totally off topic discussions. You might be right in your wish list below but for us newbies and non USians the fine differences in the English language makes it difficult to know excactly when people are being offensive so all in all I just enyoy the posts. Thanks for putting up with us all !! Ruben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Reid" <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 9:32 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] FLUG > Whenever I think that the LUG needs to behave differently, I announce it. > I'm pretty happy with it right now, more or less. > > Some things are hard to change. > I wish BD wouldn't always insist on having the last word, and would stop > including the entire text of the message to which he is responding. > I wish Greg and Doug would say nothing rather than attacking when someone > is spewing obvious bullshit. > I wish Bob wouldn't bait us so much. > I wish Mark Rabiner would post more. > > I wish everyone who had never posted would find something to say, and that > regardless of what they say, the longtime bullies would leave them alone. > > I wish everyone were as polite and talented as Tina and Ted and Kyle and > Sonny, as observant as Steve, as prolific as Graham or Don, as artistic as > Phong and Nathan and Wade and Mark R and Michael, and as was Steve > LeHuray. I'm just spouting off a few names here; please don't fret if I > left yours out. > > If any of you would like to use my servers and software to set up your own > list with your own rules, I'd be happy to help you. Marc James Small took > me up on that offer to create the Rollei list a decade ago, Stephen Gandy > took me up on that offer about a year ago. Tuan Luong and Tom Westbrook > took me up on that offer after a referral from Tim Atherton, to host the > Large Format Photography Info site. > > If Mailman will do what you need, and you're willing to be the list > administrator, and the topic has vaguely to do with photography, then all > you need to do is pick the name for the list and it's yours. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information