When I first subscribe to this news group about 8 months ago it was pretty
much about boating. Its a shame that we have ADULTS acting like children on
here that can not seem to keep the topic on boating. If you want to talk
about politics or just flame each other why in the hell dont you just make
up a new group and do it in there. Why is it necessary to destroy a good
boating news group ? Tom, dont know if you can read this or not, but I want
to thank you for all your help and information you have given to me over the
past months. If one of the REAL boaters out there could pass this message
along to Tom, I would like to get his email address to converse with him in
regards to boating issues. Im sure a lot of people has topics about boating
especially during the off season.

Ed

"ed" wrote in message
...
When I first subscribe to this news group about 8 months ago it was pretty
much about boating. Its a shame that we have ADULTS acting like children
on
here that can not seem to keep the topic on boating. If you want to talk
about politics or just flame each other why in the hell dont you just make
up a new group and do it in there. Why is it necessary to destroy a good
boating news group ? Tom, dont know if you can read this or not, but I
want
to thank you for all your help and information you have given to me over
the
past months. If one of the REAL boaters out there could pass this message
along to Tom, I would like to get his email address to converse with him
in
regards to boating issues. Im sure a lot of people has topics about
boating
especially during the off season.

Ed

Ed,

I feel for you, but the remedy is using a kill file and filters. There are
only a few key off-topic political posters here...just kill file them, and
anybody who regularly feeds them.

You can also set up filters for "bush" "war" "democrats" "republicans"
"iraq", ect.

Good luck.

--
-Netsock

"It's just about going fast...that's all..."
http://home.columbus.rr.com/ckg/

ed wrote:
When I first subscribe to this news group about 8 months ago it was pretty
much about boating. Its a shame that we have ADULTS acting like children on
here that can not seem to keep the topic on boating. If you want to talk
about politics or just flame each other why in the hell dont you just make
up a new group and do it in there. Why is it necessary to destroy a good
boating news group ? Tom, dont know if you can read this or not, but I want
to thank you for all your help and information you have given to me over the
past months. If one of the REAL boaters out there could pass this message
along to Tom, I would like to get his email address to converse with him in
regards to boating issues. Im sure a lot of people has topics about boating
especially during the off season.

Ed


There has always been a wide variety of conversation in the NG, but
during the last year there has been a subtle change.

For many years, people would start an OT thread and the conversations
about Bush, Liberals, etc and most of the personal remarks and flames
from the non-boaters (and boaters who participate in flaming) would be
restricted to the OT headers. When somebody dropped in on the NG, it
was pretty easy to pick and choose what threads to participate in, and
while a person who only wanted to discuss boats and boating had to be
pretty selective, there was always ample opportunity to do so. People
would complain about the amount of OT content, but there was an
effective solution- just don't open the OT threads.

Things have devolved to the point where most on-topic threads are now
ruined within just a few posts by somebody (often a non-boater) who has
reached the selfish conclusion that his or her ongoing flame war with
so-and-so is always so immediately important and of such natural
universal interest that it is perfectly normal, natural, and acceptable
to interrupt a boating-related thread (sometimes even changing the
title of the thread to something not boating related) to reitemize
their personal list of just what is wrong with so-an-so,- including
his/her politics, religion, profession, spouse, choice of boat, choice
not to boat, etc.

One of the worst current offenders recently posted a response informing
me that "rec.boats is no longer about boats. It's all about politics
and flame wars. I suggest you get with the program." While a person
would have to have an ego the size of an airport to just announce that
the "program" had changed, that particular individual's observation
about the changed nature of the group is apparently correct.

ed wrote:
: When I first subscribe to this news group about 8 months ago it was pretty
: much about boating. Its a shame that we have ADULTS acting like children on
: here that can not seem to keep the topic on boating. If you want to talk
: about politics or just flame each other why in the hell dont you just make
: up a new group and do it in there. Why is it necessary to destroy a good
: boating news group ? Tom, dont know if you can read this or not, but I want
: to thank you for all your help and information you have given to me over the
: past months. If one of the REAL boaters out there could pass this message
: along to Tom, I would like to get his email address to converse with him in
: regards to boating issues. Im sure a lot of people has topics about boating
: especially during the off season.

: Ed

Agreed.

Another forum that is about boating and not a lot of the crap posted here
is on the Trailerboats Magazine discussion forum.

www.tralerboats.com


barry

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 06:52:46 -0800, "ed" wrote:

When I first subscribe to this news group about 8 months ago it was pretty
much about boating. Its a shame that we have ADULTS acting like children on
here that can not seem to keep the topic on boating. If you want to talk
about politics or just flame each other why in the hell dont you just make
up a new group and do it in there. Why is it necessary to destroy a good
boating news group ? Tom, dont know if you can read this or not, but I want
to thank you for all your help and information you have given to me over the
past months. If one of the REAL boaters out there could pass this message
along to Tom, I would like to get his email address to converse with him in
regards to boating issues. Im sure a lot of people has topics about boating
especially during the off season.

Ed


You must have subscribed on a *really* good day! If you want to contact Tom, go
back to one of his messages and get his email address, or go to his web site,
which has been posted frequently.
--
John H

"It's *not* a baby kicking, bride of mine, it's just a fetus!"

Hypocrital Liberal

On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:03:11 -0800, wrote:

www.tralerboats.com

Actually, it's:

http://www.trailerboats.com/
--
John H

"It's *not* a baby kicking, bride of mine, it's just a fetus!"

Hypocrital Liberal

On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:03:11 -0800, wrote:

www.tralerboats.com

To be even more accurate, it's:

http://boards.trailerboats.com/cgi-b...ultimatebb.cgi


--
John H

"It's *not* a baby kicking, bride of mine, it's just a fetus!"

Hypocrital Liberal

Chuck,
The most prolific poster by the initials HK, declared years ago that his
only reason for posting in rec.boats was to harass the conservatives who
have ruined rec.boats. Who is this new person you are talking about?


wrote in message
oups.com...

ed wrote:
When I first subscribe to this news group about 8 months ago it was
pretty
much about boating. Its a shame that we have ADULTS acting like children
on
here that can not seem to keep the topic on boating. If you want to talk
about politics or just flame each other why in the hell dont you just
make
up a new group and do it in there. Why is it necessary to destroy a good
boating news group ? Tom, dont know if you can read this or not, but I
want
to thank you for all your help and information you have given to me over
the
past months. If one of the REAL boaters out there could pass this message
along to Tom, I would like to get his email address to converse with him
in
regards to boating issues. Im sure a lot of people has topics about
boating
especially during the off season.

Ed


There has always been a wide variety of conversation in the NG, but
during the last year there has been a subtle change.

For many years, people would start an OT thread and the conversations
about Bush, Liberals, etc and most of the personal remarks and flames
from the non-boaters (and boaters who participate in flaming) would be
restricted to the OT headers. When somebody dropped in on the NG, it
was pretty easy to pick and choose what threads to participate in, and
while a person who only wanted to discuss boats and boating had to be
pretty selective, there was always ample opportunity to do so. People
would complain about the amount of OT content, but there was an
effective solution- just don't open the OT threads.

Things have devolved to the point where most on-topic threads are now
ruined within just a few posts by somebody (often a non-boater) who has
reached the selfish conclusion that his or her ongoing flame war with
so-and-so is always so immediately important and of such natural
universal interest that it is perfectly normal, natural, and acceptable
to interrupt a boating-related thread (sometimes even changing the
title of the thread to something not boating related) to reitemize
their personal list of just what is wrong with so-an-so,- including
his/her politics, religion, profession, spouse, choice of boat, choice
not to boat, etc.

One of the worst current offenders recently posted a response informing
me that "rec.boats is no longer about boats. It's all about politics
and flame wars. I suggest you get with the program." While a person
would have to have an ego the size of an airport to just announce that
the "program" had changed, that particular individual's observation
about the changed nature of the group is apparently correct.

Dr. Dr. Smithers wrote:
Chuck,
The most prolific poster by the initials HK, declared years ago that his
only reason for posting in rec.boats was to harass the conservatives who
have ruined rec.boats. Who is this new person you are talking about?


It isn't Harry. Reread the specific statement the individual made. If
that doesn't tell you who it is then you were lucky enough to miss some
of his posts and you don't need to be bothered. You could always google
up the phrase "get with the program" if you're dieing of curiousity.

What is your purpose for posting here, aside from an all-consuming
compulsive obsession with the poster with the HK initials?






wrote in message
oups.com...

ed wrote:
When I first subscribe to this news group about 8 months ago it was
pretty
much about boating. Its a shame that we have ADULTS acting like children
on
here that can not seem to keep the topic on boating. If you want to talk
about politics or just flame each other why in the hell dont you just
make
up a new group and do it in there. Why is it necessary to destroy a good
boating news group ? Tom, dont know if you can read this or not, but I
want
to thank you for all your help and information you have given to me over
the
past months. If one of the REAL boaters out there could pass this message
along to Tom, I would like to get his email address to converse with him
in
regards to boating issues. Im sure a lot of people has topics about
boating
especially during the off season.

Ed


There has always been a wide variety of conversation in the NG, but
during the last year there has been a subtle change.

For many years, people would start an OT thread and the conversations
about Bush, Liberals, etc and most of the personal remarks and flames
from the non-boaters (and boaters who participate in flaming) would be
restricted to the OT headers. When somebody dropped in on the NG, it
was pretty easy to pick and choose what threads to participate in, and
while a person who only wanted to discuss boats and boating had to be
pretty selective, there was always ample opportunity to do so. People
would complain about the amount of OT content, but there was an
effective solution- just don't open the OT threads.

Things have devolved to the point where most on-topic threads are now
ruined within just a few posts by somebody (often a non-boater) who has
reached the selfish conclusion that his or her ongoing flame war with
so-and-so is always so immediately important and of such natural
universal interest that it is perfectly normal, natural, and acceptable
to interrupt a boating-related thread (sometimes even changing the
title of the thread to something not boating related) to reitemize
their personal list of just what is wrong with so-an-so,- including
his/her politics, religion, profession, spouse, choice of boat, choice
not to boat, etc.

One of the worst current offenders recently posted a response informing
me that "rec.boats is no longer about boats. It's all about politics
and flame wars. I suggest you get with the program." While a person
would have to have an ego the size of an airport to just announce that
the "program" had changed, that particular individual's observation
about the changed nature of the group is apparently correct.

wrote:

Dr. Dr. Smithers wrote:
Chuck,
The most prolific poster by the initials HK, declared years ago that his
only reason for posting in rec.boats was to harass the conservatives who
have ruined rec.boats. Who is this new person you are talking about?

It isn't Harry.

There is something to be said for consistency...even if consistently
wrong.

--
Skipper