On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 22:32:49 GMT, "NOYB" wrote:


"JohnH" wrote in message
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On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:23:29 GMT, "NOYB" wrote:


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Harry Krause wrote:


You don't have t bother with a new group. Every other day, Chuck will
post a 250-word treatise on "proper" behavior, and the Rev. Jim will
chime in with a few Hail Marys and mea culpas. Immediately afterwards,
Chuck will tell us that those festering pustules on the bottom of the
boat you're thinking of buying don't really retract from its value, and
Jim will tell us that no matter what computer you have, *his* is
faster.
Or some such nonsense.

If you happen to bring up any of the verboten subjects here, you'll
increase the frequency of their self-flagellations, confessions, and
vows of chastity.

Screw that, Krause.

If I had to identify the *one* person who doesn't give a schlitz about
the group,
trolls without a moment's hesitation, considers the NG his personal
playpen, has recently posted that he finds the discussion of boating
topics "vapid", and has historically gone out of his way to stir things
up every time they settle down too much for his taste, guess who that
would be?

Kevin Noble?


You spend your entire life in your computer haunting various
newsgroups. You seem to get some huge thrill from your ridiculously
silly ability to make nearly everybody dance to your weird, divisive,
hateful tune. You so misuse your intelligence and communication skills
that it's pathetic to watch you in action. You have a lot in common
with Rush Limbaugh, only he might be even brighter and his audience
isn't restricted to a couple of hundred people in a dozen newsgroups.
You're so desperate for a ****-fling that when everybody else is
ignoring you you start in on people who have long been guilty of
pretending your sick act somehow didn't exist in the first place.

So much for the "no-personal-attacks" pledge, eh Chuck?



You just don't get it. It's possible to make rec.boats a useful boating
resource if everyone would just stay on-topic in the on-topic threads.
You
don't need to completely eliminate the off-topic posts. Although I'm as
bad
as anyone at posting lots of off-topic junk here, when I'm actually
posting
to a boating-related thread, I stay on-topic. Try it...you might like it.


Do you honestly think it's possible to have the politics *without* the
vicious
name-calling?

I think it's possible to limit the name-calling to the OT political
threads...and at the same time maintain civil dialogue in the on-topic
boating threads.


Being called a scum sucking pig ****er in one thread may affect one's responses in
other threads.

It's possible, but not probable. Witness the past few years.

I've just completed a search for a group which would be appropriate for politics and
name calling. It's 'a.politics', and right now it's empty.

Everyone could easily subscribe to that group and have at each other 24/7. In fact,
there will be a post there by the time you read this.

--
John H.

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
Rene Descartes