What you feel about to be the only one guy wearing speedos?

[Dooley67]

Fellow forum members,

It sounds like Byron is telling us that he will be leaving the forum and I am very sorry to hear that. I may have been one of the people whose replies to him caused him to make this decision; however, I do not regret those replies because bullies must be called on their behavior.

I regret his decision because I have the utmost respect for Byron's intellect, and I believe him to be a brilliant man with a wonderful command of the English language, a researcher who could run rings around any reference librarian, a person who is always willing to take on an investigative challenge, and an excellent grammarian.

Unfortunately, Byron's rudeness and demeaning of other individuals is what many of us have objected to, and with repeated pleas to refrain from his rudeness, Byron did not change his behavior. He has bullied others with his gift for language and that I will surely not miss. There could have been such a better outcome had he only been willing to take the advice that was given to him and stopped the verbally abusive behavior.

For those positive contributions, Byron will be missed.

D67