Jim wrote:
"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
ups.com...
"I'm dreamin' of a no trash Christmas" :-)


Me too. what's with that lonely period on the subject line?

It disguises the original title of the post.

When the first troll (not a rec.boats regular) comes back in a few days
to see how many fights he was able to start he will find fewer. Folks
who are simply lurking through a bunch of random newsgroups looking for
a place to be rough, tough, anonymous, and politically zealous have a
slightly lesser chance to find the welcome mat setting out here.

I take a lot of grief for obliterating the subject line- but I have
noticed that even my critics don't bother to change back to "Subhuman
Group of Aliens and their treasonous supporters dare assault real
Americans". :-)

We've made a lot of progress toward becoming a functional "boating" NG.
We're not anywhere nearly as entertaining a general "chat room" as we
once were, and folks who were primarily here to participate in the
several simultaneous political peeing matches and personality-bashing
pig piles that were common place here for years and years have mostly
drifted off into groups where there is more chaos and political
nonsense. The tradeoff is that
people who are actually interested in discussing boats and boating have
a more accessible and less polluted resource for doing so.