On Fri, 21 May 2004 17:54:52 +0000, Gene Kearns wrote:

On Fri, 21 May 2004 08:16:00 -0500, "Tiger" caro31_at_triparish_dot_net wrote:

I've only been here for about 3 months, but I can't help but comment on all the
"political" threads in this newsgroup. This is REC.BOATS. Post your political
opinions in alt.politics, or in one of the other 500 political newsgroups.
It's bad enough it gets posted here, but to reply only makes it worse.


You might as well set automatic filters to remove those few people that
incessantly post off topic. Filter out the "OT" posts and about a dozen people
and this *is* a boating newsgroup. If you have been around long enough, you
will have noticed that 95% of the OT posters don't even own a boat, so there is
nothing *on* topic going on in their lives to post.... thus all of the way-out
political blather.


I do the exact opposite. I rarely read rec.boats - I just occasionally POST
(boating-related) messages here. Sometimes I read the replies to my posts. If I
have nothing to post, I don't read rec.boats.

Lloyd Sumpter
"Far Cove" Catalina 36