noah wrote:

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 21:32:56 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

noah wrote:

On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 21:29:51 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

Matt's Arcade wrote:
Thanks. I'll peruse it and see how to proceed.
I agree that we don't want to censor the posts, but it is so tiresome wading
through all the political posts :-(

Matt


Tiresome? Serious question: do you have all your faculties? If there are
100 posts some days in rec.boats, I read about 25 of them, and simply
skip over the ones I don't want to read.

Takes a couple minutes to read the posts I want to read and post if I
feel like it.

Methinks these complaints are much ado about nothing.

Methinks you don't want anybody to miss your posts. )

If you're only seeing 100 per day, get a better newsserver.
rec.boats, on newscene, usually turns 500 a day, or more.
Regards,
noah

To email me, remove the "OT-" from wrecked.ot-boats.noah.
...as you were. )


I didn't state I was only seeing 100 a day, I stated that if there were
100 a day, I only read about 25 of them. If there are 500 a day, I might
read 35 or 50. There are any number of posters whose stuff I simply skip
over for one reason or another. Or message strings I skip entirely. Or I
only read a couple of posts from particular posters (Dave Hall, for
example), because the posters are so demented no purpose is served by
reading more than a dribble or two.

Harry,

I've read about your boats (the Parker being the most recent), and
I've posted to you a few times, but I've never gotten the feeling that
you encouraged or invited friendship in this newsgroup.

Am I correct?
Regards,
noah

I'm not sure what you are asking here, Noah. There have been a few
people I consider friends who over the years I first encountered in
newsgroups. I've even met a small number of them in person. Two or three
have become close friends whom I visit from time to time. Quite a few of
those whose on-line friendship I really enjoyed simply don't post here
anymore; I keep in touch with a couple of them via frequent or
occasional emails.

I'm not running for Congress, so I see no reason to zigzag so as to
cover all sides of the newsgroup and glad-hand everyone who shows up.
Most of my true friends I've known for 20, 30, 40 or even in a couple of
cases, 50 years.

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