July 2001 "Heads Up"

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Eclair ACL Discussion and Support

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Hi All,
To our American Listees, I hope everyone had a good, safe 4th of July.

I have some bad news. Apparently Bill Gates has decided that Listbot isn't
profitable enough, so Microsoft will be closing it down August 20. Good
news is I have found a couple of other possible list services and will
look into moving the ACL List over in the next couple of weeks. 
Things have been pretty quiet on the List lately and before I go to the
trouble of moving everything I want to confirm that the ACL List is
proving useful to everybody. If you have any feedback on how we can
improve the List please let me know. You can post to the List or send me
an off-list email at cinesota@yahoo.com
We hit 30 members yesterday and I haven't seen a post in a couple of
weeks. Would a regular online forum be better or should we stay the course
with an email list service? Should we expand the scope of the List or keep
it ACL only? I need some feedback. I understand we are talking about a
tool here, a camera, so day to day discussions are not expected, but I
should see at least a couple of posts a week to feel this is a viable
effort. Help me out here folks and tell me what we need to do. How can we
make the ACL List better? 'Nuff said.

I have corresponded with Clive Tobin and he has been swamped with other
work and hasn't been able to work on the ACL motor. If you are planning to
upgrade your camera you should drop him a line and let him know you are
interested. If he gets enough requests he may finally get the thing
finished.

I just purchased two of the HD144 Super 16 parts kits from Mark
(Super16ACL@aol.com) and I have to say WOW! The stuff looks like it came
from Eclair itself. If you are contemplating an S16 upgrade for your ACL I
highly recommend getting one of these kits. Mark is also working on a
throat extender for the ACL 200' mags to allow better hand holdability.
Right on Mark! Let him know if you are interested in this upgrade.

There is a very nice ACL kit on ebay right now. If your in the market you
might check it out at
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1252617584

And lastly if you have shot something with your ACL and you want to plug
it on the List, feel free. Tell us how the camera worked out. If you are
currently shooting keep us updated.

That's about it.
Good luck and happy shooting.
Ray the List Mum


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