Chuckie dots are a special service, sponsored by the cross posting
jerks from other newsgroups who lob in such worthy subjects as
"Deranged Mestizo Illegal Imigrants Rape Blonde White Woman on the Hood
of a Lowrider", "Blacks are unfit to breathe", "Jews are infiltrating
the government at every level!", etc.

Replacing the racist or radical political crap with a dot makes it
harder for the guy who normally posts in some other NG to find his
handiwork when he checks in with rec.boats to see how many hundreds of
responses and how much hateful name calling he has generated. There are
several posters who do not participate in most of the normal exchange
on the NG, but never fail to show up and make some nasty contributions
to heated, offensively OT threads. If they don't see "Let's go shoot
some n***ers and liberals"
on the subect line, there's a better chance they will go on to scan
some of the other NG's where they look for this type of content.

If Gene's filter (and according to some in this thread there is some
doubt whether it really is Gene) is kicking out the dotted subject
lines, it would be really surprising to me to learn that Gene's filter
wouldn't kick out the entire thread, anyway.

If the original message was not posted by Gene, then it must have been
posted by somebody with a different motivation for seeing the racist
(etc) thread titles here.

Changing the subject line to a punctuation mark might screw up a post.
Posting KKK propaganda to a boating newsgroup screws up the entire
group. An individual post from the KKK isn't as damaging as the group
of people that such material routinely attracts.

And anyway, by the time somebody changes the subject line to a
punctation mark the post is already in the NG. People seeking this sort
of radical crap can simply look for the
punctuation mark in the subject line, go up thread a post or so, and
read all of the hateful, racist, or confrontationally political trolls
they would ever hope to find.