"Scout" wrote in
:

Tim,
As usual, you have lighted another side of a dark cave. Do I
understand your last comment correctly, in that you are saying a lack
of interesting conversation may be what drove mankind to explore other
villages, other lands, other planets, and now, other newsgroups? Could
it be that the spirit of adventure, even the roots of sailing, share a
cause-effect relationship with less than fabulous confabulation?
Are these outsiders just virtual explorers and exploiters? The new
white man? Let us not make the same mistake as those who have been
intruded upon before us! Let's get them drunk and finish them off as
they sleep.

you can try, of course.

Bertie