On Jan 26, 7:09*am, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:
wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:01:12 -0500, "Bill Kearney"
wkearney-99@hot-mail-com wrote:

There are knowledgeable and
published posters that read rec.boats and associated newsgroups that
stopped, on advice from their attorneys, posting to other web based
forums that had similar TOS.
Really? *Cite examples.

Want to start with Peggie Hall?Peggie Hall continues to use and post advice to other boating NG's,
including non moderated UseNet forums. * * When Peggie left rec.boats.
she was very adamant why she stopped posting in rec.boats. *She was
tired of the personal inflammatory attacks by one of more (at the time,
the most) prolific regulars in rec.boats.

I had lunch with Peggie maybe a year and a half ago, and that is
essentially what she told me. When the subject of rec.boats came up
(very briefly) she referred to it as "(so-and-so's) group", and
remarked that she was not going to post here again. To be fair, I think
there were additional reasons as well. In addition to "so-and-so" and
the negative atmosphere created by non-stop political cut and pastes,
wars of the eternal flame, etc, she was regularly getting scorched by
another poster. That person is seldom seen here these days but he or
she had a highly refined ability to make extremely acidic remarks.


The personal, inflammatory attacks, and the off topic political
bickering that was the norm in rec.boats for so many years is reason why
most of the professionals left rec.boats.

And why it is important to discourage that type of behavior when we
can. The rec.boats NG should attract boaters, there are plenty of other
NG's where political BS is appropriate.