From: pack-news@rattus.net 
  
 Matt Austern  writes: 
  
 > Thad  writes: 
 > 
 > > Thanks for your continued feedback, David. 
 > > 
 > > 
 > > David Dyer-Bennet wrote: 
 > > > slr-systems might be an improvement -- if other people are happier. 
 > > 
 > > There was too much controversey surrounding the other name. This was a 
 > > compromise - changing the name to reflect that the group would limit its 
 > > scope of inclusion to digital SLR and lens systems, and dropping the 
 > > rangefinders from the digital SLR systems proposal. 
 > 
 > I don't think the new name is less controversial.  I think you've 
 > gone from a name that a handful of people were unhappy about to one 
 > that lots more people are unhappy about. 
  
 Of course, if they'd just fixed their ridiculous definition, they 
 could have kept the /old/ name, and then quite a few less people would 
 have been unhappy. 
  
 I'd have even considered not being unhappy since they, under duress, 
 finally stomped on all the crossposting stupidity. 
  
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