JohnH wrote:
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 20:49:18 -0500, Gene Kearns
wrote:


Many (if not most) of these OT posts are made by non-boaters. They
may *own* a boat, but their boating is never discussed here. One of
the more arrogant of these idiots admitted he came here only as a
vandal and not to discuss boating. He freely admitted that when he
wished to discuss boating he went elsewhere. When he wanted to engage
in mischief, this is where he came.

That got me to thinking. I wonder if there is not a movement afoot
among some (consciously, or not) to attempt to disable rec.boats. I
have no real answer for that, but it strengthens my resolve to ignore
these posts and forge on with what we should be discussing here. In
Agent, I just hit the round circle with a diagonal bar through it...
thread is ignored. Whatever you use for a newsreader, I encourage you
to learn about and use its capabilities to ignore inappropriate
threads. In some instances, killfilling a poster may be appropriate,
if they have never made a boating related post... and there are some
of those out there posting, now.

At any rate, again, the signal to noise ratio has reached the point
where we are losing posters. I'm betting that if we forced the noise
back down to a whisper, the vandals would slink back to their
respective rocks, crawl under, and be quiet.

Think about it, the decision is yours.

You may be correct. (I almost said "right" -- whoops) I'm going to try to be
good for a while. It's really hard to stay quiet after reading the stuff being
written, but I'm gonna try!

John
On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD

It's really difficult to get a decent boating discussion going here on a
topic of interest, and I don't mean yet another discussion about
Bayliner boats. You start something out and the idiots jump right in and
Skipperize it.

But I try every so often. Less often these days.





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