Olafo and fellow zuiks;
I start by accepting my responsibility as part of the SUV thread. I'll say
no more about that except perhaps to admit I'll try to avoid taking things
personally in the future. And I hope others willl try to refrain from
preaching their position on the list.
One person has left and says this was the cause. I'll say a little about
that. Seems to me Olafo's method is the right one when these threads get
out of hand - simply delete it if it has SUV in the subject. Or, as one list
member did, let your mail program auto-kill those messages. As for the
person who left, this is the second time he's done this for the same reason
in the last year or so. I feel no responsibilty for this. And I will not
accept the guilt trip he is trying to place on me and others. If he can't
stand the heat, or use either of the 2 above methods to stay out of the
kitchen, that is his problem.
I think the list will recover it's usefullness and glory, assuming it has
lost any.
I wish everone well who's doing ADITL2. I have a feeling there'll be even
more participation than the first time around.
George
-----Original Message-----
From: Olaf Greve <Ogreve@xxxxxxx>
To: 'wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx' <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: 'olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, September 23, 1999 2:33 AM
Subject: RE: [OM] Bye for Now
>Hi,
>
>> I think I will take a hiatus from the list for a while. It really is not
>> much fun with a small group of people dominating the list with flaming.
>
>It seems I was "lucky" to not have a lot of time to read the list over the
>last two/three weeks. This caused me to lose interest in the SUV threads
>after the first message already, so all the rest made their way straight to
>my trash can without being read at all. Now that people are actually
leaving
>it has me wondering what the content of those messages was, but as I've
>already noticed that it's car-related it "leaves me totally cold" (a Dutch
>saying for indicating that it's something in which I have zero interest)...
>
>> The few contributions from thoughtful and courteous people are not worth
>> the ugliness.
>
>I've noticed that there were very few interesting threads over the last few
>weeks. The only ones I cared to add to were the ADITL2 one, and one which I
>started myself a few weeks ago (the one with the F280 + 50/3.5 + ext. tubes
>working distance table), oh yes, I also made a small remark about the usage
>of some HTML elements for the webring question.
>
>I hope that the list quality will soon improve again now that we're in the
>ADITL2 week. I, for one person, have already gotten some pictures which I
>like and deem to be good enough to be entered. Furthermore, yesterday I saw
>a really cool subject on the work premises, so today I'm armed with the 4Ti
>and the 50/1.8 and 50/3.5 lenses (as well as some filters), now let's hope
>the rain will make way for the sun, so I can get the very shot I want.
>
>I try to focus on the nicer things this list brings us (such as the ADITL2
>event), and cut through the SUV stuff, that works nicely for me. It's a
pity
>that people are leaving over this thread though. :(
>
>Cheers!
>Olafo
>
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