Max Mustermann wrote:


No, it is up to the individual poster to exercise appropriate Usenet
netiquette. Excessive off topic posts lengthen the message header retieval
time (wasting peoples time) before they can be filtered. Worse, the
retention rate of relevant posts are shortened by off topic posts since
news servers only allot a given amount of space to each group.

Off topic posting falls into the same unwanted class as spam and it might
as well be just that. Would you think it OK to post ads for Viagara,


Your post is off-topic in rec.boats, MaxiPad.
Do you have any boating information to impart here...or are you just a
whiner?