Chuck Gould wrote:


Speaking of the nature of the group; for my two cents worth I really
don't feel like I have a dog in the hunt anymore at rec.boats (but
morbid curiousity draws me in when a thread attacking me or
boatingforum erupts). I'm getting nasty emails, flaming PM's, and
other "fan mail" from
folks who believe I've got some magical power to dictate how often
people who post to both groups post here, or the content of their
posts at this NG. Any rational person knows this is far from true. So
even though this place is part of the past and not part of the future
as far as I'm concerned, I think it's a shame when folks stand around
peeing on the corpse of what was once a useful and enjoyable group. If
you're as done here as I am, why not leave Nosepicker, Freak, Wally,
Ugly, et al
to try to rebuild this thing in peace? I suspect that Scottie's little
scouting mission to the boating forum was maybe only the first of
additional nonsense that might ensue by other folks confused enough to
believe that boatingforum is sending trolls over to rec.boats to stir
things up. Heck, one of the folks here even accused somebody of
posting Chinese tennis shoe spam to rec.boats to drive traffic to
boatingforum.

Unfortunately and unfairly, boatingforum is being judged not by the
content and tone that actually prevails there, but by the nature of
posts that some people who post to more than one boating board are
posting elsewhere. To that end, it would be useful if those folks
posting to more than one group didn't mention boatingforum elsewhere,
especially in wrecked.boats. It would be useful, if for nothing more
than general peace and harmony in the universe, if we all restircted
our postings everywhere to things we would be willing to say in
person.....(while having a confrontation in a biker bar)...but that's
my personal opinion, it's been well known for a long time, and that
opinion was one of the motivators for starting a group where a
standard of civility is expected.


I'll refrain from "advertising" here. As far as what I am willing to say
in public, though, you can be sure I'd address some of the creeps if I
met them face to face the same way I do here.