The newsgroup charter means little.

Hate to tell you self appointed newsgroup police but the charter for
rec.boats.cruising says absolutely nothing that prohibits announcements of
services or websites.
http://mailgate.supereva.com/rec/rec.../msg63881.html It only
prohibits for-sale posts.

It is unfortunate that he posed it more than once but this post was
entirely within the permitted use.

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in
news:8zgBe.171107$sy6.146602@lakeread04:

It is unfortunate that he posed it more than once but this post was
entirely within the permitted use.


Not according to the nice email I got from SBC, his ISP.

Meatball Larry...

Glen,

Hate to tell you self appointed newsgroup police but the charter for
rec.boats.cruising says absolutely nothing that prohibits announcements of
services or websites.
http://mailgate.supereva.com/rec/rec.../msg63881.html It only
prohibits for-sale posts.

It is unfortunate that he posed it more than once but this post was
entirely within the permitted use.

You are entitled to your opinion, but I disagree.

Sorry that you took my comments supporting Larry as being netcopish. I reviewed
the charter before my first post on this subject, and I've been generally familiar
with it for some time.

Now show me how posting a blurb ad for a brokerage/charter company is a "discussion",
or seriously intended to generate a "discussion" of "topics related to cruising
in boats"

If he were to participate in the newsgroup and just listed the website and slogan
in his sig, I doubt anyone would have objected.

Don W.