"hk" wrote in message
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D.Duck wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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On Feb 18, 6:29 pm, HK wrote:
Tim wrote:

DownTime wrote:
this used to be a decent group of knowledgeable people, asking and
offering useful advise on boating related topics. now just a bunch
of
political BS whining and bitching from those who don't actually
really
go boating anymore.
Well, I'm not going to totally disagree with you. But actually there
are several people here that do have quite a bit of boating
knowledge.
True, there's lots of BS that seems to liquidly flow though ehre on a
daily basis. But I'm not speaking for all, but I would say that for a
great many people that hang around here, this is off boat posting
season. Mine will be tucked away for at least another couple months
so... I'm not going boating for a while yet. Then I'll be posting
more
boating questions and experiences.
It does seem that year around, rec.boats.cuising does have less
blather and more boating posts IMO.
The newsgroup is filled with boatless posters, or posters with boats
who
have little or no interest in boating or fishing, or posters who know
next to nothing about boating, but are opinionated nonetheless.

The problems are exacerbated by the large number of "anonymous"
posters
infecting the newsgroup.

When usenet "outlaws" anonymous posting, usenet will once again become
useful.- Hide quoted text -

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So what about so called non-anonymous posters (like yourself) whos
stated identity can not in any way be confirmed?
There are posters here who know my name, address and telephone number,
several with whom I have have exchanged checks amounting to several
hundreds of dollars or more, and several I have met personally.

My preferred "correction" for usenet would be for every post to have
listed in his/her headers his/her actual name and actual IP. That would
not prevent or interfere with the use of nicknames in here, but at the
same time would improve behavior and virtually eliminate the anonyous
posters who show up here only or mostly to crap.

I used to be opposed to moderated newsgroups. Not any more.

In most cases, the average Joe Blow has a dynamic IP that changes
frequently.

In my case, if I use Steve Gibson's (grc.com) reverse DNS it reports an
Embarq machine as my IP address. Nothing could be further from the
truth.

If you'd like to test yours, you can go he

https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2



My IP doesn't change often, and when it does, it usually is after the
internet provider loses signal and the local pool is reassigned. There are
ways to hide an IP or go through a server that provides another number, of
course, but I don't bother. What for? I'm not posting here anonymously.

Even if its available, how does the average Joe Blow ID someone by their IP.
That even assumes they do not go through an anonymizer?

I believe without the cooperation of the senders ISP there is no way you can
ID any Usenet participant.

So, anonymity reigns.