Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

Just to prove a point, I went to the alt.civil.war.usa newsgroup for a
quick sampling.

In just one minute I had the following headers:

Clash of bigots continues
Laura Bush murdered her favorite boyfriends
The one trillion dollar war
Meshuga ****tard Ohara
Neo Conservatives in the news
Bassy the bigot exposed
Homophobic bigots
Whose doing the looting in New Orleans
Death of American Democracy
Leftists facists of this era

Now you tell me Chuck - how prevelant is this?

There are times when discretion is the better part of valor - this is
one of them.

Looks like there's some housekeeping for somebody to do over at the
civil war forum.

Here's where you and I disagree. Outrageous behavior should not be
tolerated simply because it is widespread. We're down to just a couple
of guys with an "F the group attitude, my need to get my personal
political rocks off trumps any benefit that others might extract from a
functional, on topic newsgroup"

Do rec.boats and the civil war group have something in common?
Hmmm..........
All sorts of political fighting going on and look at the 6th item on
that list. (!)
Could it be? Really? Naw, I'm just going to think it's a coincidence

How's your memory Tom? You know it wasn't all that long ago that the
subject list in rec.boats read pretty much the same way. Please don't
tell me you don't see a difference
between a group where people have voluntarily refrained from posting
political crap (for the most part) and the bad old days here when that
was the main reason a lot of folks hung around.