On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 16:00:50 +0000, Gould 0738 wrote:

Some people want a lot more structure imposed than the rec.boats format allows.

There's a promising site at iboats.com

Lots of categories, rather than none, so if you are only interested in reading
about outboard repair (for example) that is the only category you need to see.

About the second or third most popular category is "Dockside Chat", where people
are allowed to discuss the issues of the day, etc. Just took a look this morning
to discover a bunch of conservatives reassuring one another that Bill Clinton
actually awarded Haliburton the contract to clean up after the Iraq war. It was
rather amusing.

What is different between the iboats.com and rec boats is the tone of the posts.

Chuck, you've hit it on the nose. I hang around bcadventures.com fishing forum,
and it's the same way. There's some dislike of "NFR" (non fishing related) posts
there too, but the TONE is friendly, even if they're discussing politics,
religion, or even fishing. Of course, they're all Canadians there...

And is IS possible to disagree about these things and still be civil. I like
Butch Ammon, even though I disagree with (*NOT* object to!) most of his
political beliefs. OTOH, there are people in this NG (can't recall the names -
they're all bozo'ed) who have somewhat similar beliefs to me, but are just
assholes.

And the idea that EVERYTHING is somehow related to either Isreal or the POTUS is
lucicous to me.

Lloyd