On Oct 20, 9:19*pm, Wayne.B wrote:
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.

AGREED!

Especially since this newsgroup is picked up and posted by several
internet sites.

It doesn't look very inviting from people on the outside looking in.