Well, I agree. I have no vested interest in artificially inflating the ranks of PDML readers, let alone participants. I tend to think that things like listservs should grow (or die) organically.
That being said, the PDML doesn't have the market cornered on good imagery created with Pentax cameras, intelligent conversation, or even polite discourse. Some of the insults perpetrated by Bill on this list (to use just one example) are far more offensive than anything I have seen on Pentax Forums or the dpreview Pentax forum. Reminds me of the old joke "I didn't come here to be insulted!" to which Groucho Marx replied "Oh? Where DO you go?". I've been guilty of breaches in that regard myself, so people, rocks, glass houses, etc. Regarding selling items here on FSF... if you expect this to be The Venue for moving your surplus equipment there is a line I enjoy from the movie "The Princess Bride": http://www.antiqueauto.org/assets/GUTD.mp3 (Sound Warning) :) On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Walt <ldott...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/12/2013 10:27 AM, Bill wrote: >> >> On 12/12/2013 10:19 AM, Darren Addy wrote: >>> >>> The simplest and easist way to "evangelize", if one wants to do it, is >>> to frequent the other places that Pentax people hang out, make a sig >>> line that points to the PDML, and post often enough in those places >>> that people see the your sig and check the PDML out. The "danger" of >>> doing that is possibly discovering that you prefer posting there to >>> posting to the PDML. >> >> >> The real danger is inadvertently turning the PDML into Pentax Forums or >> DPReview. >> >> bill > > Seconded. > > -- Walt > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- I don't have a problem with idiots. I have a problem with the fact that they have an internet connection. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
