Well put Gene. And the flame trolls make it worse.

Many of the regulars here are dedicated boaters. Their goal is to take
care of their floating money pit and once in a while actually get away
from the dock.

The few who scud through like a black cloud on the horizon really don't
make a difference. Like a Rifs, let them rave and blow. Me,I will
chuckle a bit at the uselessness of it all, and move on to a poster who
wants to discuss boats.

To that end, anyone that wants to chat about broken engines, stuck
steering, bottom paint, ripoff marine repairs, deck polish, bilge water
or just talk about their last trip, please post it!

Also, if there are any other CGAUX out there, feel free to email me.

Capt. Frank Hopkins

My boating related website:
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~aartworks




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.