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On Oct 5, 10:07 am, jaybird wrote:
Remember when you could go to RBP and find discussions on boats?
Remember when you could go to RBP and read funny stories from other
paddlers?
Remember when you could go to RBP might find something for sale you
were looking for?
Remember when you could go to RBP and swap put in and take out info as
well as water levels?
Remember when you could go to RBP and find intelligent comments about
paddling?
Remember when you could go to RBP and read about what other paddlers
were doing in the paddling world, like Dancewater, Mothra, and others?

Those were the days.

I paddle 65-70 days a year now and technique and good sense have kept
me from swimming. I am a member of the ACA and the AWA but I never
remember accepting any money from them. I follow their paddling
guidelines as a demonstration of responsible good sense.

People have the right to paddle the boat of their choice, in the
manner they wish, naked if they so choose. That is an expression of
part of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights.

I have never seen a boat or gear manufacturer attack paddlers for not
purchasing their products. I have never seen a reputable supplier of
paddling gear insult and degrade other paddlers for choosing to
purchase alternate equipment. I have never seen an outfitter display
what polite society would describe as irrational behaviour because
they chose to be outfitted by someone else.

The latest stream of garbage about sponsons is like selling ice cubes
to Eskimos. Don't want 'em, don't need 'em. And there were 39,800
traffic-related fatalities in the U.S. last year, not the twisted data
spewed just recently. And they were happy with only the 39,800
fatalities because it was an 8% improvement over 2007. We keep
driving cars, and we don't buy sponsons. Obviously it isn't very busy
in sponson world because there is lots of time to cut and paste the
same old crap.

I promised myself I would ignore the continued spew of garbage, but my
wife told me to take the trash out....

Jay Hanks, President, Lansing Oar and Paddle Club
"all the rivers run to the ocean, and yet the ocean is not filled":
ECC 1:7

It is a shame that such a useful medium as Google Groups gets so badly
damaged by spam, this is what it is, just spam. Rec Sport Rowing gets
it's fair share of spam too but it's the more traditional viagra /
insurance / job offer type stuff. Still annoying but at least there
are still excellent posts on it. There are people that I would
describe as "passionate" but as a rule there aren't people just out to
spoil the function of the group.

I take it there is no moderator that can deal with this issue.

Roger
www.virginiarowing.com
Edon Recreational Rowing Boats.

Actually, Roger, there is no such thing as a Google groups medium. There
is usenet, which has been around for several decades, and which is the
"medium" that rec.boats.paddle is a part of, and then there is a website
called Google.groups, that just happens to have been in existence for a
couple of years, which catalogs some of the usenet newsgroups and stores
the messages on them. Some of those newsgroups have stored messages that
are from way before Google Groups existed.

Although Google Groups does allow you a graphic interface to post
messages to usenet, it's not the same as usenet itself. There is no real
moderator on RBP, which is one of the main reasons who the group became
the barren wasteland that it is now. As for this braindamaged spammer
who has damaged this group beyond repair, he now has no audience left here.

Even though several old-time RBP'ers still peek from time to time to see
who will finally be the one to turn out the light, the RBP newsgroup
itself is basically dead.

--
Wilko van den Bergh wilkoa t)dse(d o tnl
Eindhoven The Netherlands Europe
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