Boater wrote:


My name appeared on at least three dozen news
releases, I organized and held a dozen news conferences, my name
appeared as editor of the company magazine, and so on and so forth.
Almost every labor reporter and business news reporter in Washington
knew my name for a while, and so did about 300 major news outlet
reporters around the country who were on my call or mail list. Yeah, it
was a big secret. But only to an idiot like you.


Funny. Never heard of you for being so famous, well known and all that.

When did you begin writing for rec.boats as a career?