[svlug] A billion seconds of Unix

[Ian Kluft]

>From: Bill Schoolcraft <bill at wiliweld.com>
>At Thu, 6 Sep 2001 it looks like Ian Kluft composed:
>ikluft->  Certainly no offense to those who call SF home.)
>
>Trust me, San Francisco is NOT the City it used to be, and I
>struggle with thinking of what would turn it back to the nice place
>it was a decade or two ago. :(
>
>For that much, the whole Bay Area.

Nonetheless, SVLUG and BALUG have some key volunteers who live in SF.
It was those volunteers whom I had in mind.  Besides, it's anyone's right
and a normal reaction to be defensive of where you call home.

Some of the SF residents travel to SJ a lot.  It's a lot of travel time
which I think credits them with more participation than I've shown.
I wouldn't want to accidentally discourage them from doing all that they
do for the local LUGs.  So if I hesitate to travel the opposite direction,
I figured it would come across nicer if I mention it's because I prefer
to avoid crowds - it's easy enough to understand that SF is crowded.
It isn't out of ignorance for the travel time they incur.  When I travel,
I just prefer to leave the urban setting entirely.  It was a simple
explanation to add, and hopefully avoided any bad feelings.