On Feb 16, 9:37�am, Harry Krause wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:

I enjoy a lively discussion, unfortunately most political discussions
in rec.boats focused on "your an a**hole", * "I know you are but what
am I". *The problem for rec.boats was that no on topic discussion
could get past one or two responses before it reverted to "your an
a**hole", * "I know you are but what am I". *Rec.boats still has Off
topic discussion, some political in nature, but at one time the cut
and paste news articles had turned rec.boats into 95% cut and paste
and the "your an a**hole", * "I know you are but what am I"
responses. *There was one person who would cut and paste 20-30 news
article a day, and then would actually discourage discussion by
encouraging others not to respond to the right wing excrement except
to hurl insults.

Well, that's a casualty of the infoweb. *Usenet used to be a valuable
resource for questions and information. *You think this is bad, wander
through some of the more political blogs and see what happens there.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - most of the "flamers" here
are amateurs and bad amateurs at that.

No one can force or enforce a Newsgroup policy, but if the majority
agree that the insults are a waste of time, the quantity of silly
flame fest will decrease.

I quite agree.

Reggie, of course, has a well-deserved reputation as one of the biggest
flamers ever here, along with his reputation of posting here under about
50 different identities. There's nothing quite like his sort of
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"Most of the flamers here are amateurs, and bad amateurs at that".
Shortwave Tom.