Dave wrote:

Unfortunately, every group seems to have at least one
self-righteous clown whose goal in life seems to be running about claiming
to be offended by any possible taint of the promotion of commerce.

Dave,

The reason is that there are probably more than ten thousand boat brokerage
and charter companies in the world. If all of them posted small ads for their
websites there would be no room for posts by cruisers.

Don't think it can't happen. Email used to be free of commercial
solicitations years ago. Now my filter catches around 60+ spam emails
per day.

I don't recall that you've been posting to this group very long, but
you surely don't want to have to start filtering your newsgroups as
well do you?

BTW - Anthony, If you are not the owner of Yachting Royal Interntional
consider that people can also call 1-800-592-0298 to complain to your
boss. If you are the owner, then consider that some people who might
have used your business will be put off by your unethical use of
non-commercial newsgroups. I realize that you are from Chicago, and that
people there are used to smash-mouth business tactics. It doesn't play
well in much of the rest of the world.

Good luck,

Don W.