on 10/13/10 9:30 AM, Philip Williamson at [email protected] wrote:
> I love the tone of this group. Here are some reasons I think it's > fairly civil. > > Historical traditions. The silverbacks are graduates of the iBOB list, > which used to be relatively polite. Haven't read it in a while, but > when I did, it was the calm end of the pool. The original Riv-backed > list was shut down when Grant deemed the discourse too uncivil, and I > think Jim shut this list down for a couple weeks one February when > everyone got itchy and mean. Didn't actually shut it down, but rather floated (a few times) the idea of doing so (or taking a self-enforced vow of silence...) during the period of pre-spring thaw, where folks on lists in general tend to get cabin fever and otherwise very rational people start getting cranky. For a literary reference, there's a short story by Jack London called "The Kilkenny Cats". But, everyone here has remained mindful of those tendancies, making a list-pause unecessary. Thanks again. - Jim -- Jim Edgar [email protected] Cyclofiend Bicycle Photo Galleries - http://www.cyclofiend.com Current Classics - Cross Bikes Singlespeed - Working Bikes Gallery updates now appear here - http://cyclofiend.blogspot.com "Then I sat up, wiped the water out of my eyes, and looked at my bike, and just like that I knew it was dead" -- Robert McCammon, "Boy's Life" -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
