[pct-l] Bicycle Usage Proposal

[greg mushial]

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> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:21:27 +0200
> From: Joel Fisler <pct at fisler.ch>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Bicycle Usage Proposal
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> "Anyway, thanks for the link, I'll try to promote it where I can :-)" 
> then that means joke or "not serious".

Sorry: but  :-)  means that you'd be happy to de exactly what you said - to 
promote it where you can... (ie, picking a fight, posting such on a hiker's 
board), on the otherhand, if you had used  ;-)   (a wink) then you would 
have been understood, and in all likelyhood would not have provoked the 
responses you got (I know I wouldn't have posted, but I don't speak for 
others).  You bemoan the fact that you received unfriendly responses - 
please consider: 99.999% of the people on this list are good people, 
friends, friendly people, the type of people I wish there were a whole lot 
more of in the world...  the type of people that would let most things slide 
on by...  why is it you got the responses you did...  could it be that they 
thought your posting was over-the-top?? And they likewise didn't see a  ;-)

put one foot ahead of the other, repeat until done,   :-)
dr greg mushial

ps. next time I'm doing a stint at CERN it'll be interesting to see just how 
these biker/hiker interactions pan out on the trails...  here the nominal 
interaction is exactly as Diane and others have posted...  maybe the bikers 
here could learn some manners from across the pond.