Jim wrote:
If you want to see something funny, set
your reader to read all messages and group messages by thread. This will
show you how your tidying up with your Chuckie dots and other tactics have
been instrumental in causing this current mess. You decide if you want it to
continue this way.
Belated Merry Season of Lights and Happy New year,
Jim

Looks like we agree again? Could the end of the world be far away? :-)

I now make sure that any cleanup is restricted to rec.boats. You're
absolutely right- the jackasses that get their rocks off posting
hateful propaganda to a broad spectrum of newsgroups are encouraged by
any sort of response. I'd like to think that

1) The perpetrators of this bs are not rec.boats regulars

2) If the thread is obscured, it's maybe less likely that somebody of a
differing political persuasion will pick up the sword in rec.boats and
actually respond to these idiots.

There's a chance I could be wrong. But we won't know for sure until we
have a chance to observe the results.

Belated Merry Christmas (assuming you're Christian) and Happy New Year
to you as well.