> But since you are challenging me, please let me ask what 
> it is about the
> piclist that you like and also feel I would destroy. 
> Because I think the
> piclist was better ten years ago and that's what I'm 
> aiming for.

> How would I go about changing it? I guess with my powers 
> of persuasion,
> it's not like I can send a free tank of gas to everyone, 
> or smack them
> upside the head.

More anon. Still too busy to play for long ... .

For examples, presumably of Bob's ideas of 'powers of 
persuasion' and 'lack of smacking upside the head' [no tanks 
of gas were harmed during this event] you could perhaps look 
at the last series of posts from Bob shortly before he left 
off posting on the list for a while a wee while ago.

I posted some material on sunspots and how the sun worked, 
couched in simple terms but based on the very very very best 
science to date, and accurate in terminology, and with eg 
NOAA/NASA refs amongst others.

As this AFAIK is the latest available example of Bob in 
persuasion mode then, leaving aside his reaction to my 
posting per se [he didn't think I should be talking about 
sunspots] an examination of his comments on my mental 
processes, the scientific content of what I posted and 
related matters are, presumably exemplars of what Bob has in 
mind for the future.

It may, perhaps, be that the new reasoned, reasoning, 
reasonable, polite, persuasive Bob that he is telling us 
about is really what he has in mind and that we are not just 
seeing a Bob in sheep's clothing in his latest foot in the 
door, take the list back 10 years foray. Perhaps.



        Russell  :-( 

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