From: G. Browne on
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
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

"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
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
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