"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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Headed out the door to do a little business.

'Fore I go, Noah asked me to state an opinion and I thought about it a
while.
Can't find the thread it was attached to. Sorry.

The NG belongs to everybody. It's a public forum. The value of a forum is
that

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So, Noah, and the other people who even give a rat's behind about my
opinion
(both of you, maybe), the group should take rec.boats whatever direction
the
group wants it to go. There will be some who would not stay with the
changed
group, but that's the general point, right? Whatever losses the group
suffers
from dropouts will likely be made up by enthusiastic newcomers when the
transition to a more highly restricted format is complete.

The problem is that a few can pollute the group by posting off topic and
hijacking threads even using assumed names or ever changing ID so that they
spoil it for the rest of the folks. I don't know why they do it or what
they hope to accomplish, but it seems to be a fact.

Other groups don't seem to be bothered to this extent. So it is just a
small group of selfish idiots who have chosen this group for whatever
reason.

del cecchi