On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 15:20:09 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

On Monday, January 6, 2014 4:06:16 PM UTC-6, Gene Kearns wrote:
Thanks Wayne, but things don't look a lot different than when I left.



1) Harry, Harry, Harry,

2) Lots of childish sniping,

3) and no boating content.



I can remember when we had 100+ boating posts per day.....


I won't dispute there were that many boating posts, but I will say the board was very informative and lighthearted in 'the day'...

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Yes, and we had a good mix of interesting people like Wayne "Clams"
Canino, Larry from Charleston, Short Wave Tom, Chuck Gould and many
others. A lot of people stopped telling their more interesting
boating stories after Harry started putting everyone down. I guess
that's all he had left once everyone realized what a fraud he was. The
spoofing and sock puppet epidemics chased away a lot of good people
also.

Unfortunately a lot of folks have moved on to web based moderated
forums. There are some benefits to that but it tends to fragment the
knowledge base and doesn't have the same character.