JimH wrote:


I appreciate the new tone. However, I think that everyone needs to step
back and stop the netcopping (as I have been guilty of in the past, and
perhaps am guilty of with this post). I think folks should be allowed to
post whatever they want to. I think that folks should take it upon
themselves to decide what discussions they want to participate in. I think
some folks here need to remain consistent on what they find acceptable and
not acceptable here (I know I do).

What do you think?


Everybody is of course allowed to post "anything they want to." People
do. Nobody can or is going to stop it.

You can start a thread expressing your outrage over the sentence handed
down to a sex offender- and you did. I could suggest another newsgroup
that specializes in the discussion of sexual offenders, rather than
boats, and I did. We both posted "anything we wanted." :-)

If we want a chat room, we have a fine one. If we want a boating
newsgroup, it would be better if most of the discussions had something
to do with boating.

Peggie Hall once defined a participant in this group as a person who
never learned the difference between having something to say, and
simply having to say something.