On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:34:54 -0700 (PDT), JimH
wrote:

this NG is now nothing but a kindergarten
play ground with no adult supervision.

Unfortunately that is very close to the truth.

It would be nice if everyone involved would step back from their
keyboards for a few minutes and reflect upon how this looks to anyone
interested in boats. There is really more to life than generating
inflammatory news group posts and replying to them.