On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:48:44 -0400, "Roger Long"
wrote:

I would certainly seek advice and expect some good information from someone
who had, say, sailed halfway around the world, made a comfortable home in a
foreign land, and become semi active due to age and developing a rich and
full life on shore.

OTOH, someone who had just pittered around in Florida on a 26 foot boat (the
same size Donna Lange sailed around the world), not made any voyages of
note, and then given it up in favor of newsgroup posting under assumed names
I wouldn't find particularly interesting at all.

The fault for the rather sad and rabid bitter existence of the person
alluded to who has no other life but that of heckling those he lives
in envy of lies largely with those who voted in the current and
previous governments. As you do not have a decent public funded
national health scheme, bureaucracy had the bright idea that in order
to save money they would release the mentally ill and infirm back into
the community. These sort of people remain securely locked up and
medicated in the Antipodes - well, once were.

Just a thought