From: jeremy@exit109.com 
  
 Bruce Murphy   wrote: 
  
 >> The *only* thing you need to do to demonstrate this for yourself is go 
 >> and read rec.photo.digital for a while.  It will become self-evident 
 >> if you look for it -- that many of the questions can be answered both 
 >> correctly and totally differently in the context of different types of 
 >> cameras being used, and that one context's answer will be of no use at 
 >> all within another context. 
 > 
 > I'm quite happy for people to take this elitist stance providing 
 > they're going to come right out and state it in those terms. Inventing 
 > different contexts of photography that depend on equipment just isn't 
 > there yet. 
  
 It's utterly staggering that you would call it "elitist" to suggest that 
 not everything is the same when using different kinds of cameras.  I am 
 sitting here in total awe at the outright stupidity of that statement. 
  
 Nearly every day I start to reply to a post only to realize that my 
 reply makes no sense in the context of the poster's camera, and then I 
 either change my answer, or cancel the followup completely because I 
 don't know how to answer the question in the context of that kind of 
 camera. 
  
 Frequently you see questions answered in a way that is of no use to the 
 person asking the question, because he's using, say, a p+s camera and 
 the person replied with an answer that is correct for an SLR. 
  
 > This is why I proposed a different group split in another thread. 
  
 Your proposed split is nothing I would be interested in.  I don't want 
 to split off "advanced" topics.  It's also completely baffling that you 
 call this proposal "elitist" while *you* are the one suggesting that the 
 "advanced" photographers run off to their own group, leaving the beginners 
 behind. 
  
 > Because I don't want to have to put up with Thad posting the charter 
 > in full every time someone mentions one of the aforementioned, in much 
 > the same way as he clearly had in mind with crossposting. 
  
 So tell him not to do that. 
  
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