on 10/13/10 9:30 AM, Philip Williamson at philip.william...@gmail.com 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,
Yah, just to toss in an Upper Left Coast voice, Sunday's Seattle ride with
RBW-listers in person was just superb. Kind of amazing to come across a bunch
of people all of whom you sincerely want to get to know better, whose interests
outside of cycling are varied, broad and intriguing as well.
I think the stregnth of this group lies in everyone's tacit agreement to be
positive and focused on a shared belief that each person's opinion is valid.
It certainly isn't that we all agree on everything, but rather we can differ
in opinion while remembering that there's another person out there,
I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member. ---
*Groucho* *Marx*
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:59 PM, doug peterson dougpn...@cox.net wrote:
Along with all the positive reasons why we all enjoy this group, think
about Who else would have us?. Oh, no, it's the steel /
