I do hope you reconsider.
Email is the great purveyor of bluntness. You can't hear a vocal
inflection or see a grin or other types of body language through a
monitor. I've had more than my share of meltdowns with otherwise
rational folks that I considered friends over email messages.
Again, hoping you reconsider.
And, do enjoy your road trip. At least pop back in to tell us about
that.
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Tom Scales
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 3:21 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Bye all.
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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