Perhaps I am part of the problem, but I'm not feeling the camaraderie and
fun from this list that I have for the 9 years that I have been a member.
Since I no longer use OM, I stayed around because I enjoyed the people and
the lighthearted tangents that the threads often took.
Unfortunately, I'm not feeling the love anymore :)
The latest personal attack was just a symptom. If we can't have a
discussion about the pros and cons of the platform on which we work without
being called a troll, what's the point? Should I have posted my comments?
Well, I guess not, but my comments were never intended as a personal attack.
I still have gotten so many excellent pointers to improve my photography
that it has been worth it to read about cameras I don't own.
Most importantly, this list has been a family to me through the good times
and the bad that my family and I have experienced. I know people here only
from the list but there is a core that I know if I showed up at their
doorstep, they would invite me in and ask me to dinner.
I have never belonged to a group anything like this one. I consider you
all, or at least most of you, true friends. I thank you all for your
support during the tough times.
I'll probably still let the messages go into a folder just so I can see [OM]
when I wake up in the morning, but I probably won't read them like I used
to.
If anyone wants to contact me personally, I use my real email address here.
That alone says something about this list. All my other memberships go to a
spoofed email address.
No point in commenting on this post. I don't mean to start a he said/he said
thread.
Maybe I'll be back. Maybe not. It's been great.
Tom
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