On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:25:06 -0500, Jack Goff wrote:

there's no reason to
think that we can control them, either.

I disagree.

The cure is to totally ignore them. Stop replying since that is their
fuel and oxygen.

If you just can't do that, put them in your kill file so you never see
the post in the first place. Most of the prime offenders have
*nothing* to say about boats or boating, so you will have lost
nothing.

Try it, you might like it.

Lead by example.