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Isn't there a boat NG around here?
Seems the only general boat NG has been infiltrated, nay, hooliganized,
by a half dozen crusty, "my dick is bigger", curmudgeons who think that by putting OT in the subject, they aren't really flooding this group with crap. Since you don't seem to have much interest in boats,why don't you summertime boaties form a new group like rec.boats.fuk'em.lets.talk.politics Don |
AMEN!
"Don" wrote in message news:JnPXd.625000$Xk.558307@pd7tw3no... Seems the only general boat NG has been infiltrated, nay, hooliganized, by a half dozen crusty, "my dick is bigger", curmudgeons who think that by putting OT in the subject, they aren't really flooding this group with crap. Since you don't seem to have much interest in boats,why don't you summertime boaties form a new group like rec.boats.fuk'em.lets.talk.politics Don |
Bravo!
I agree 110% "Don" wrote in message news:JnPXd.625000$Xk.558307@pd7tw3no... Seems the only general boat NG has been infiltrated, nay, hooliganized, by a half dozen crusty, "my dick is bigger", curmudgeons who think that by putting OT in the subject, they aren't really flooding this group with crap. Since you don't seem to have much interest in boats,why don't you summertime boaties form a new group like rec.boats.fuk'em.lets.talk.politics Don |
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On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 20:46:37 -0800, jps wrote:
In article JnPXd.625000$Xk.558307@pd7tw3no, says... Seems the only general boat NG has been infiltrated, nay, hooliganized, by a half dozen crusty, "my dick is bigger", curmudgeons who think that by putting OT in the subject, they aren't really flooding this group with crap. Since you don't seem to have much interest in boats,why don't you summertime boaties form a new group like rec.boats.fuk'em.lets.talk.politics Don My dick IS bigger than yours! Somewhere I read that the size of one's "member" was inversely proportional to the size of one's intellect. FWIW Dave |
Go over to Rec.Boats.Cruising
It hasn't been molested yet...well, not entirely. |
Go over to Rec.Boats.Cruising
It hasn't been molested yet...well, not entirely. |
On 10 Mar 2005 04:44:03 -0800, "Tim" wrote:
Go over to Rec.Boats.Cruising It hasn't been molested yet...well, not entirely. Deja vue all over again all over again!! :) Later, Tom |
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 03:43:37 GMT, Don wrote:
Seems the only general boat NG has been infiltrated, nay, hooliganized, by a half dozen crusty, "my dick is bigger", curmudgeons who think that by putting OT in the subject, they aren't really flooding this group with crap. Since you don't seem to have much interest in boats,why don't you summertime boaties form a new group like rec.boats.fuk'em.lets.talk.politics ================= Good idea but I doubt it will happen. The captive audience effect would be lost and what fun would that be? What did happen over the years, with a fair amount of success, is that boating sub groups have been spawned for subjects like boat building, racing, cruising and electronics. It is a two edged sword however since that has siphoned off a great deal of the "On Topic" threads from here. For someone with the ambition and know how, some possible new sub groups might be "rec.boats.engines", "rec.boats.fishing", "rec.boats.maintenance", "rec.boats.repair", "rec.boats.purchasing", etc. That would further splinter the discussions and probably leave this group with nothing but "Off Topic" which is where it is already headed of course. |
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:08:18 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 03:43:37 GMT, Don wrote: Seems the only general boat NG has been infiltrated, nay, hooliganized, by a half dozen crusty, "my dick is bigger", curmudgeons who think that by putting OT in the subject, they aren't really flooding this group with crap. Since you don't seem to have much interest in boats,why don't you summertime boaties form a new group like rec.boats.fuk'em.lets.talk.politics ================= Good idea but I doubt it will happen. The captive audience effect would be lost and what fun would that be? What did happen over the years, with a fair amount of success, is that boating sub groups have been spawned for subjects like boat building, racing, cruising and electronics. It is a two edged sword however since that has siphoned off a great deal of the "On Topic" threads from here. For someone with the ambition and know how, some possible new sub groups might be "rec.boats.engines", "rec.boats.fishing", "rec.boats.maintenance", "rec.boats.repair", "rec.boats.purchasing", etc. That would further splinter the discussions and probably leave this group with nothing but "Off Topic" which is where it is already headed of course. To be honest Wayne, Usenet has become nonrelevant to anything. There are so many more forums, special interest forums and with the current spate of blogs, enough ways to get information out and across without using Usenet. I've been to the other groups, one in particular, and they are as involved in OT as this one is. I don't mind the occasionally OT - they can be fun and enjoyable if everybody stays civil. I've been around Usenet long enough to understand that it's almost an impossible task. Back when TCP/IP was still being developed and the basics of Usenet were first evolving (email lists) there was general agreement that off topic arguments were to be moved to personal email - everybody generally stuck to that even when the system came into wide use. It really wasn't until 94/95 and the first OT stuff started appearing (politics again) and it generally devolved to the mess you have now because those who participate in OT don't have the discipline to keep it off the newsgroups. It's unfortunate because it is the one medium in which information can receive wide dessemination. Later, Tom |
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