On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:29:49 -0700 (PDT),
penned the following well considered
thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|On Jul 25, 9:57*am, Gene Kearns
|wrote:
|
| ... and, if I
| am successful in making this work, I will open my news server for
| others to download headers. That way, if you care to, you will see a
| great reduction in the presence of the sandbox crew and other tripe
| that most people don't care to read.
|
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| Agent 5.00 Build 1159
| Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC.
|
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|
|Assuming you don't already have me filtered out,

Nope, you are not filtered out. My intention (if attainable) is not to
filter out people.... it is to filter out "bad behavior."

|are you saying we can
|read the group on a server provided by you that will already have most
|of the junk missing?

That is the goal....

|That would be soooo cool, it would drive some
|folks completely out of their heads.. I don't really know a lot about
|news servers so this is all new to me. * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

The Cons: access MUST be through a real news client.
Here's a few examples:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Usenet_newsreaders

I have toyed with the idea of blocking google groups, entirely.
Actually, if you look at the percentage of crap posts to rec.boats,
the majority of them come from google. There is a LOT of TRUTH in this
guy's site:
http://improve-usenet.org/

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Agent 5.00 Build 1159
Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC.

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http://www.thebayguide.com/rec.boats