"Gregory Hall" wrote in message
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Hello, I guess it's customary for newbys to introduce themselves. My
name's Greg and I don't have a sailboat (yet). So I'm going to hang on
some of the boating groups to see what I can learn. Is this group always
so off-topic? Not many of the posts are on topic. And there are way too
many cross posts from unrelated groups. It took me fifteen minutes just to
block about half the posts, mostly the ones that were spam and
cross-posted to a dozen or so other sites. I hope spam doesn't get as
frequent as it is on email.

Hi, Greg--welcome. Yeah, we have lots of flonkers here, but it's not a
chore to filter them as they appear. As for OT posts, we have lots of
those, too. Most of the sailing content is fairly esoteric, so you may or
may not gain much insight here if you are a true novice. But one never
knows . . .


Oh, I might make a comment once in a while but since I don't have much
experience I'll keep quiet most of the time. I was partial to the
Macgregors but there seems to be a lot of negative comments about them.
Only one or two subscribers seem to say good things about them. I think
the new 26XM is very stylish. It just looks modern and streamlined to me.

I'll leave this topic to those who seem obsessed by it.

Max