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  Msg # 31540 of 32000 on ZZNE4431, Saturday 5-12-23, 2:18  
  From: JAMES SILVERTON  
  To: ANDREW29@LITTLEPINKCLOUD.  
  Subj: Re: 2nd RFD: rec.photo.digital.slr  
 XPost: rec.photo.digital 
 From: not.jim.silverton@erols.com 
  
  wrote in message 
 news:10jokd6qpuaqkc7@news.supernews.com... 
 > In news.groups Jeremy Nixon  wrote: 
 > >   wrote: 
  
 > >>>>>>>>>>>>>Deletions<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< 
 > > > The use of the term "SLR" is, in the case of this proposal, in 
 the 
 > > informal, layman's sense of the term, rather than the strict 
 > > technical one. 
 > 
 > This is a weird argument.  It's tantamount to saying that in, say, a 
 > physics newsgroup title, a word like "inertia" should have the 
 common 
 > meaning rather than the the technically correct meaning as used in 
 > physics. 
  
 Personally, I think that is a telling argument against the current 
 name. I admit that I am still trying to come up with a short but 
 accurate name to describe what is intended, tho' I do have a sneaky 
 suspicion that "real cameras" is what is actually iimplied, as has 
 been suggested.   :) 
  
  
 -- 
 James V. Silverton 
 Potomac, Maryland, USA 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
  * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) 

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