[CR]Re: General argumentativeness on this list

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Campagnolo)

From: <OROBOYZ@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 16:12:55 EST
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Re: General argumentativeness on this list

You folks involved in all this childish bickering must stop.

My ability to follow and make sense of all this has been limited due to recent travel but I am seeing silly arguments, petty slights and way too many posts without real substance. Looks like it's time for some wholesale culling of list memberships...

Those who I have privately warned will be summarily booted next time I read a negative word from them!

I also think it's time to take a position re: eBay, which unfortuntely as a general topic is consuming this list.

Obviously eBay is how many of us see, buy and sell vintage stuff, so it's relevancy is secure.. But certainly the general complaining and villifying has gone to ansurd limits. Please think hard and long before "identifying" an in-your-opinion bad guy.

Certainly they exist and it is helpful to be warned about such characters, but before you cry out that someone is a crook, how about trying some more productive methods? In most of these episodes, using the list for help is likely to be more useful than screaming foul. For example, asking list members if they know and can help you in a situation "That you are getting anxious about" can yield huge rewards!

In any case, IF you are convinced a buyer or seller has ripped you off, how about asking me first privately before you blast that person on the CR list? I will want all the details, making sure that you left no stone unturned and that you are innocent as new blown snow in the transaction...

Let's try to turn a new leaf and be nice folks all the time here on the CR list....please?

Thanks Dale

Dale Brown Greensboro, North Carolina <A HREF="http://www.classicrendezvous.com./main.htm">ClassicRendezvous.com</A>