"BTnH" wrote...
Hey all;

I just set up newsgroups on my computer, and I am happy to find
knowledgeable and helpful folks to ask when I have questions. I bought an
old 34' Cal last year. My first boat. I managed to not crash or break it
during the first summer of use, but it was mostly luck.


That's a cool boat. A friend of mine had one back when they
were new hot racer-cruisers, we sailed it a lot.

Anyway, a suggestion: some threads are long and hard to follow because
people leave the original message in the reply. If they turned this off
in
their options, send section, the reading would be easier.

Only if you have the whole thread, and follow it in linear
fashion... not so easy on usenet. I quote sections of
previous message that I'm replying to, so you can tell what
I'm talking about.

OTOH to quote several long previous messages and adding "me
too" or maybe the ever-popular "what he said" at the bottom
is kind of annoying.



wrote:
You found helpful people in THIS group, no way. I rarely see anything
here except personality conflicts. There is rarely anything about
sailing here. You must mean rec.boats.cruising.

Actually, there's at least as much sailing discussion here
as there. But it seems to be going down hill lately.

DSK