XPost: rec.photo.digital 
 From: nop@alt.net 
  
 Kibo informs me that Alan Browne  
 stated that: 
  
 >Lionel wrote: 
 [G3 add-on lenses] 
 >> No, but you can attach various lenses to one, & many people will see 
 >> that as being 'interchangable', & IMO, it's just a another example of 
 >> how the fuzziness of the scope in the charter will cause confusion & 
 >> friction. 
 > 
 >Adding a lens element is NOT interchangeable. Degrading a lens by 
 >such artifice is anathema to the whole point of interchangeable 
 >lenses. 
  
 And you're happy to spend the rest of your life explaining that to 
 random newbies who feel that their G3 & collection of add-on lenses 
 *are* on-topic, according to the charter? 
  
 >>  Nobody involved in writing the RFD has yet explained why they think it 
 >> would be a bad thing to just make the scope of the proposed group 
 >> *exactly* equivalent to the name of the group, thereby eliminating these 
 >> sorts of problems. 
 > 
 >See my other posts today on that subject.  The name doesn't have 
 >to be perfectly logical 
  
 No, but it should be as close as is practical, & it should definitely 
 describe the *intent* of the newsgroup. 
  
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