rec.photo: live & let live

Dear Michael S.
All a person can do in any discussion group, AA meeting, or whatever,
and still maintain their & the groups integrity is to offer their
experience, their knowledge or opinion. For one to be honest, that is
all they can do. Weather another person takes that advice or not is
strictly up to the other person. If one makes photographs by mixing
silver bromide in their home brewed fecal matter, and smearing it on
11x14 glass plates, and process it in a coffee developer, it's their
organic right. I may find it amusing and might think they are a
fecaphile. But so what? BFD. Personally I think a lot of your advice
is quite good. But it's not your, or anyone else's place to try to
impose their ideas on another. When you do that, you just raise the
noise to signal ratio & burn up bandwidth. It's a good thing you don't
participate in any SCUBA diving groups, because there one can make a
half way decent argument that one divers actions can jeopardize others
safety. But these are above the sea level photo groups, so no such
group thinking needs to exists. This type of behavior reminds me of
fundamentalist religions. When I escaped from Ohio & the Midwest to
California in '66, I felt like I had died & gone to heaven, due to the
live & let live attitude.
It would make me very happy to keep more of that spirit @ rec.photo,
John