He was making a joke, perhaps a bad joke, about Canon in your email address.
This is a diehard Olympus group, so references to other brands are joked
about. Don't take offense, it was meant as a lighthearted jab. It had
nothing to do with AOL.
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: <Canon50E@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: [OM] Olympus Ace E Rangefinder
> Thanks to everyone who had responded. I appreciate all the help but I was
> highly insulted by this reply line:
>
> =====
> Kar Yan Mak of disgraceful email address wrote:
> =====
>
> What's so disgraceful about an AOL email address? Especially from a
person
> that resides in England that wrote this...what gives? Am I missing
something
> here? But I've just been dissed not because of my gender/race but because
of
> a lousy email address.
>
> -Kar Yan Mak
> http://www.kyphoto.com/classics
>
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