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From: G. Browne on 3 Feb 2010 14:44 On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:26:55 -0800, John McWilliams <jpmcw(a)comcast.net> wrote: >Bruce wrote: >> On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:44:53 -0500, Robert Coe <bob(a)1776.COM> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:02:26 +0000, Bruce <docnews2011(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> : >>> : I'm really being very gentle here, because the execrable SI is >>> : actually a gross insult to capable photographers. >>> >>> You don't say. Can you actually cite any capable photographers who think >>> they've been insulted? >> >> >> There is quite a long list of capable photographers who participated >> in the early days of the SI. They left both the SI and the SI's >> sponsoring newsgroup, never to return. > >All kinds of capable photogs have left NGs right and left, as well as >canning usenet altogether. All thanks to pretend-photographer trolls like you.
From: tony cooper on 3 Feb 2010 15:25 On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:26:55 -0800, John McWilliams <jpmcw(a)comcast.net> wrote: >Bruce wrote: >> On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:44:53 -0500, Robert Coe <bob(a)1776.COM> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:02:26 +0000, Bruce <docnews2011(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> : >>> : I'm really being very gentle here, because the execrable SI is >>> : actually a gross insult to capable photographers. >>> >>> You don't say. Can you actually cite any capable photographers who think >>> they've been insulted? >> >> >> There is quite a long list of capable photographers who participated >> in the early days of the SI. They left both the SI and the SI's >> sponsoring newsgroup, never to return. > >All kinds of capable photogs have left NGs right and left, as well as >canning usenet altogether. Some of which, undoubtedly, left due to a severe case of death. -- Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
From: Tim Conway on 3 Feb 2010 15:28 "tony cooper" <tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message news:6smjm5pold160npuop53g5opqqtibr789k(a)4ax.com... > On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:26:55 -0800, John McWilliams > <jpmcw(a)comcast.net> wrote: > >>Bruce wrote: >>> On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:44:53 -0500, Robert Coe <bob(a)1776.COM> wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:02:26 +0000, Bruce <docnews2011(a)gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> : >>>> : I'm really being very gentle here, because the execrable SI is >>>> : actually a gross insult to capable photographers. >>>> >>>> You don't say. Can you actually cite any capable photographers who >>>> think >>>> they've been insulted? >>> >>> >>> There is quite a long list of capable photographers who participated >>> in the early days of the SI. They left both the SI and the SI's >>> sponsoring newsgroup, never to return. >> >>All kinds of capable photogs have left NGs right and left, as well as >>canning usenet altogether. > > Some of which, undoubtedly, left due to a severe case of death. > > Oh well, that tends to dwindle the numbers down a bit and not too much can be done about that - at least until the resurrection. ;-)
From: Chris Malcolm on 3 Feb 2010 15:45 In rec.photo.digital.slr-systems tony cooper <tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:26:55 -0800, John McWilliams > <jpmcw(a)comcast.net> wrote: >>Bruce wrote: >>> On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:44:53 -0500, Robert Coe <bob(a)1776.COM> wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:02:26 +0000, Bruce <docnews2011(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>> : >>>> : I'm really being very gentle here, because the execrable SI is >>>> : actually a gross insult to capable photographers. >>>> >>>> You don't say. Can you actually cite any capable photographers who think >>>> they've been insulted? >>> >>> >>> There is quite a long list of capable photographers who participated >>> in the early days of the SI. They left both the SI and the SI's >>> sponsoring newsgroup, never to return. >> >>All kinds of capable photogs have left NGs right and left, as well as >>canning usenet altogether. > Some of which, undoubtedly, left due to a severe case of death. The mildest of deaths is alwatys fatal :-) -- Chris Malcolm
From: John McWilliams on 3 Feb 2010 15:46
tony cooper wrote: > On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:26:55 -0800, John McWilliams > <jpmcw(a)comcast.net> wrote: > >> Bruce wrote: >>> On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:44:53 -0500, Robert Coe <bob(a)1776.COM> wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:02:26 +0000, Bruce <docnews2011(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>> : >>>> : I'm really being very gentle here, because the execrable SI is >>>> : actually a gross insult to capable photographers. >>>> >>>> You don't say. Can you actually cite any capable photographers who think >>>> they've been insulted? >>> >>> There is quite a long list of capable photographers who participated >>> in the early days of the SI. They left both the SI and the SI's >>> sponsoring newsgroup, never to return. >> All kinds of capable photogs have left NGs right and left, as well as >> canning usenet altogether. > > Some of which, undoubtedly, left due to a severe case of death. Yes, many of which were fatal! Not many replacements, either, so unless there's some event I cannot forsee, usenet will continue to dwindle. Until it, too, catches the death badly enough. Film at eleven. -- john mcwilliams |