"Wilko" wrote in message
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Actually, Roger, there is no such thing as a Google groups medium. There
is usenet, which has been around for several decades, and which is the
"medium" that rec.boats.paddle is a part of, and then there is a website
called Google.groups, that just happens to have been in existence for a
couple of years, which catalogs some of the usenet newsgroups and stores
the messages on them. Some of those newsgroups have stored messages that
are from way before Google Groups existed.

Although Google Groups does allow you a graphic interface to post messages
to usenet, it's not the same as usenet itself. There is no real moderator
on RBP, which is one of the main reasons who the group became the barren
wasteland that it is now. As for this braindamaged spammer who has damaged
this group beyond repair, he now has no audience left here.

Even though several old-time RBP'ers still peek from time to time to see
who will finally be the one to turn out the light, the RBP newsgroup
itself is basically dead.

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Wilko van den Bergh wilkoa t)dse(d o tnl
Eindhoven The Netherlands Europe
---Look at the possibilities, don't worry about the limitations.---
http://kayaker.nl/

Oh, I don't know - that it's damaged beyond repair that is. Block him and
ignore him works. He actually stirs up some life around here now and again.

Spammers that don't swap names every five seconds are easy to ignore - I
think the main attrition issue is other, fancier websites that folks have
gravitated to. I, living in the back of the beyond (connecting at 26.4K on
a good day), don't like fancy graphics et al, so I like it here. Some folks
prefer flash, so they go where they can get it.

Of course, in the summer I work too much to paddle, and in the winter - not
around here am I getting on the water! So few trip reports to make as a
contribution, but I check the group every day. Ingram is an annoyance, but
I don't think he's important enough to be doing real damage. Easy enough to
block him, and/or block any threads started by him.

Cricket