Hey, Stan, Save yourself the trouble of going through all 2000+ posts. Here's a synopsis:
Issue #1: Someone said: "I bet the Pentax people read this list sometimes" Brad said: "Hey Pentax, where's our (insert bad word) DSLR! Someone else said: "Hey Brad, don't swear!" Brad said" "I'm sorry." A different someone else said: "Hey Brad, I'm offended by your swearing." Brad said: "I already said I'm sorry." Another person said: "Brad, you shouldn't swear." A week long flame war breaks out, that even went as far as someone setting up a new e-mail account under Brad's name, attributing posts to him that weren't his. The whole thing was unseemly in the extreme... Issue #2: Chaso: "There's this exhibit in Texas by a guy using Medium Format, and he used Photoshop to clean up his images" Wheatfield: "Photoshop is a cheap and dirty way of cleaning up what should have been done properly by the photographer behind the viewfinder in the first place." Instantly the thread breaks into 35 OT threads about such things as Photoshop vs. dodge and burn, negatives are real and digital isn't, admissability of negs versus digital in a court of law, some sort of phenomenological versus post-modernist "can we really trust our senses and how can we observe the world without that very observation changing what we observe?" discussion, when and what kind of violence can we jokingly refer to without offending some, etc. etc. Oh yeah, and Norm Baugher said, "I think my fridge light stays on when I close the door". Please note that I'm paraphrasing liberally (despite the quotation marks), and, I my tongue is planted firmly in my cheek right now, so ~please~ no one be offended - this is an attempt at humour (gotta cover all the bases with this post <g>). So Stan, delete all those messages, and get some sleep. Sounds like you need it. Glad you had a good trip! regards, frank Stan Halpin wrote: > Cotty - thanks for the photos and the fine story telling. I am just back > home this evening and am faced with 2000+ messages on PDML (mostly some fuss > about brad doughboy and/or about the dslr). Am off again for most off this > week, it will be sometime before I can get my photos from Camden Lock > developed, printed, scanned . . . > -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
