"RG" wrote in message news:0Xx_b.163$h23.45@fed1read06...


No one is looking in a mirror here. I've been around this NG since
1998, and it used to be I couldn't wait to log in every day and see
what was being discussed. It was awesome at one time. I rarely login
here anymore.

Just checking in here. I know what you mean; I've been here since the
middle 80's. I used to love this place, and posted and discussed
boats here all the time. Now, though, I just click through it maybe
once every 3 or 4 months. It's not just rec.boats, either, it's just
about all of USENET. Everywhere you go, it's the same, tired old "OT:
Bush lied about WMD's!!!" garbage. These idiots have such puny,
insignificant lives that the only way they can masturbate their
microscopic egos is to post their whining on USENET, hiding behind
their computer monitors so nobody can see what peabrains they really
are.

I remember when USENET was an incredible place, before the web had
even been invented, and we used newsreaders like RN or TRN or TIN,
advertising online was utterly unheard of, and the only people online
were professors, graduate students, and scientists at government
research labs. Those days are long gone, though, and complaining
about the present state of USENET is, well... you might as well be
complaining about the sky being blue. Sigh.

Ron M.