Well, I was being a little flip, Frank. Did I forget the smiley ... sure, there's gotta be a limit, but when you start limiting things, at what point does it stop. How many hairs make up a moustache?
Shel > [Original Message] > From: frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net> > Date: 1/23/2005 8:47:45 AM > Subject: Re: Camera Lust! > > On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 08:13:51 -0800, Shel Belinkoff > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I understood it to mean all ongoing auctions ... and, if there's to be a > > "prohibition" about Pentax gear and third-party lenses, then the > > prohibition should be extended to cameras that use Pentax lenses, filters > > that fit on lenses that can be used on Pentax cameras, straps, cases, caps, > > and so on, including ephemera. > > Reductio ad absurdum. > > Are you suggesting that since many Takumar screwmount lenses have a > 49mm filter-ring that any filter of that size, or indeed, any lens by > any other manufacturer that has a 49mm ring can't be mentioned? > > Likewise for any camera that has the same type of strap-connecting > mechanism as a Pentax - that can't be mentioned either? > > Any lens that has a cap that could potentially fit on any Pentax lens > or lens that would fit a Pentax is also off-limits? > > Let's take it further, shall we? No computers, because a *istDs could > potentially download images onto it. No cars, 'cause I could put my > LX in the trunk (boot, for you Brits). No clothing, because one could > put an MX with pancake in the pockets (is that a Pentax in your > pocket, or are you just happy to see me?). > > I mean, really, I don't care personally. I don't eBay anymore. > Haven't for a couple of years. So, I don't care. > > It seems that what the "no ongoing Pentax auctions" thing is somewhat > of a limit on free speech, so we have to have reasonable limits to it; > it really ought not be absolute. LImiting it to Pentax gear and > ~major~ components that might attach to Pentax gear seems to work. > OTOH, if we want to limit it as you suggest, then perhaps no ongoing > eBay auctions at all would be easiest. It would certainly make > deciding what's proper and what's out of bounds easier. > > As I said, it means nothing to me - just thinking of list harmony is all. > > Please note, what may be perceived as sarcasm is really just my way of > lightening things up, and no personal malice is intended. <g>. > > cheers, > frank > > > > > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
