basskisser wrote:
Chuck Gould wrote:
Almost had a boating related post. (Hurricanes).
Too bad you couldn't avoid screwing it up with political diarrhea in
the header.

Chuck, have you ever posted anything political here?

Not for a long time.

In fact, if you'd stop staring in the mirror and take a good look at
the NG, you'll see that
almost *nobody* is posting political crap here anymore. Makes it a
better group.

With very rare exceptions:

NOYB has stopped.
Harry has stopped.
I have stopped.
John H has stopped
jps has stopped
"Smithers" has stopped
Bert has stopped
JimH has pretty well stopped
Doug Kanter has pretty well stopped or cut back a lot
Don White has pretty well stopped or cut back a lot
And the list goes on.

Some of the non-boaters who used to lurk here looking for a political
fist fight have disappeared, and more actual boaters are participating.
That may or may not suit you, but I think that's a great thing for a
boating NG.

And, once again we devolve, (with your question "have you ever posted
anything political here?") to you setting standards for your personal
behavior based on the worst examples you can find. Why don't you ask
yourself how *you* would like to define yourself? If you want to post
political crap and personal attacks here all the time, at least have
the stones to say "Screw you, ya *******. I'll post this off topic and
inflammatory stuff because it pleases me to do so and to keep things in
a turmoil!"
That would earn you more respect than "But that little boy over there
spit first!"

There must be 1000 newsgroups. Just because a guy goes fishing a couple
of times a year shouldn't give him license to f*** up the boating
newsgroup with "BUSHCO" bait.