"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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What's the "....." all about? Must have something to do with the cross
posting?

Eisboch (dumb about these things)


On certain services, such as Google Groups, the subjects of the various
threads are listed on a single page. A thread titled, "Subhuman illegal
aliens gang rape poor white girl for hours".....: (or whatever) tends
to attract the sort of folks out to deliberately inflame the group. Why
leave bacon sitting around the camp site when there are a bunch of
deliquent bears on the prowl? Somebody simply looking for a place to
fight is less likely to open a thread titled "....." than one that
calls people subhuman, references rape, etc.

Censorship? Not really, but if they have the "right" to lob racist and
offensive crap into the group it's hard to argue that nobody else has
the right to make it more difficult for them to find an audience for or
more difficult for this crap to bring out the worst in folks normally
participating in rec.boats.


Gotcha. Thanks.
It seems there are more web-based forums that directly copy posts from the
NGs, rec.boats included. I know "allaboutboats.com" does and there seems to
be more and more people posting via forums like that. I don't see a problem
with it, except they should realize that it ends up in a Usenet NG and some
people are kinda particular as to the posting traditions and protocols.

Eisboch