"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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On 1/27/2007 5:18 PM, Gene Kearns wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:16:26 -0500, Bert Robbins penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

Bill Kearney wrote:
There are knowledgeable and
published posters that read rec.boats and associated newsgroups that
stopped, on advice from their attorneys, posting to other web based
forums that had similar TOS.
Really? Cite examples.
I want to see the "TOS" for rec.boats or for any other USENET newsgroup.

Since I am quoted... I'll try again.... I said, "web based forums." I
did not mean, nor did I imply any USENET newsgroup. In fact, I
specifically had in mind those (privately held) forums that had TOS
and in most cases moderated (censored) content.

Rec.boats was created before charters were deemed necessary and when
people acted with a bit more decorum than they do now. It is sad
social commentary.

So, you can come here and be as bad as you want to be. Then, the only
remaining venue will be a private site where you can go say (only)
what the moderator wishes others to see and where you have to adhere
to a certain code of behavior or be sued....

Thus, there is no charter, there is no TOS, there is, however, an
out-of date FAQ:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/by-newsgrou...rec.boats.html


Have at it.....



All you have to do to get rid of most of the useless slime here is for
usenet to require that real names and IPs be used in posting. That would
be the end of at least 90% of them.

Yep...shine the light of day into the dark crevices.

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:55:07 +0000, Don White wrote:


All you have to do to get rid of most of the useless slime here is for
usenet to require that real names and IPs be used in posting. That would
be the end of at least 90% of them.

Yep...shine the light of day into the dark crevices.

You both take usenet far too seriously, but I would suggest that using a
"real name" could lead to truly serious complications. Besides the
annoyance of additional spam, more than one person has been the victim of
identity theft due to online activities. Then there are the even more
serious issues, stalkers, pedophiles, etc. Using your real name flies in
the face of all online recommendations, and is basically stupid.

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:29:03 -0000, thunder wrote:

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:55:07 +0000, Don White wrote:


All you have to do to get rid of most of the useless slime here is for
usenet to require that real names and IPs be used in posting. That would
be the end of at least 90% of them.

Yep...shine the light of day into the dark crevices.

You both take usenet far too seriously, but I would suggest that using a
"real name" could lead to truly serious complications. Besides the
annoyance of additional spam, more than one person has been the victim of
identity theft due to online activities. Then there are the even more
serious issues, stalkers, pedophiles, etc. Using your real name flies in
the face of all online recommendations, and is basically stupid.

I think you've touched on several of the reasons Harry would like everyone
to use their real name (and address, and phone number).
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John H