[CR]Re: Off Topic posts to this list

(Example: Racing)

Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:23:05 -0500 (EST)
From: "Emanuel Lowi" <lowiemanuel@yahoo.ca>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <MONKEYFOOD9SIdt7iKy000057a6@monkeyfood.nt.phred.org>
Subject: [CR]Re: Off Topic posts to this list

Dale Brown wrote:
>
> I am serious about limiting the Classic Rendezvous
> messages to
> on-topic.... Why? Here is a perfect example...Last
> week, we had
> Jocelyn Lovell from Canada join this list and almost
> immediately quit,
> due to the high volume of e-mail traffic. This guy
> was/is a legend,
> could have been a tremendous interesting contributor
> yet he was pushed
> away (at least partially) because people waste band
> width with
> frivolous stuff.

PLEASE try to ask Lovell to re-subscribe. Perhaps suggest that he get the digest rather than the individual messages.

I rode with him once, when I was maybe 17, at Montreal's Olympic Velodrome. He was a superstar and his tragic injury while training on the road had a very big impact on many of us.

Guys, this man was something like Canada's Merckx.

Emanuel Lowi
Montreeal, Quebec