"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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On Feb 14, 11:32?am, "Corsair23" wrote:

Condolences to the OP who ventured into rec.boats to meet up with a
hostile response from some guy who needed to make repeated references
to the male
organ. Do stick around, this type of nonsense used to be, but isn't
really any longer commonly encountered here.


"Corsair23" is yet another googlegroups poster. I realize that use of it
and other web-based forums that
basically grab and re-publish posts from newsgroups are becoming more common
but I can't help but think that newsgroups were of an overall higher quality
before they became popular.

Eisboch

On Feb 14, 1:47�pm, "RCE" wrote:
"Chuck Gould" wrote in message

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On Feb 14, 11:32?am, "Corsair23" wrote:

Condolences to the OP who ventured into rec.boats to meet up with a
hostile response from some guy who needed to make repeated references
to the male
organ. Do stick around, this type of nonsense used to be, but isn't
really any longer commonly encountered here.

"Corsair23" is yet another googlegroups poster. *I realize that use of it
and other web-based forums that
basically grab and re-publish posts from newsgroups are becoming more common
but I can't help but think that newsgroups were of an overall higher quality
before they became popular.

Eisboch

Probably the worst years for rec.boats were back before Google groups
existed. It has everything to do with individual behaviors, and how
those behaviors combine to constitute a group, IMO, and not much to do
with the type of service one uses to access the discussion. We're more
consistently on-topic these days (with the obvious exception of a
couple of posters), but even those who use the group as a blog or a
"myspace" page are a lot less confrontational than what used to be the
norm.

The foul and unwarranted remarks from Corsair would have been just as
inappropriate if they had been posted from a more sophisticated NG
system.

"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
oups.com...

Probably the worst years for rec.boats were back before Google groups
existed. It has everything to do with individual behaviors, and how
those behaviors combine to constitute a group, IMO, and not much to do
with the type of service one uses to access the discussion. We're more
consistently on-topic these days (with the obvious exception of a
couple of posters), but even those who use the group as a blog or a
"myspace" page are a lot less confrontational than what used to be the
norm.

The foul and unwarranted remarks from Corsair would have been just as
inappropriate if they had been posted from a more sophisticated NG
system.


I guess that *was* a plus of the Clinton administration. Rec.boats was a
better place.

Eisboch

On Feb 14, 2:58�pm, "Eisboch" wrote:


I guess that *was* a plus of the Clinton administration. *Rec.boats was a
better place.

Eisboch


Whoosh, on my end. That one escaped me entirely. Not sure how the
party in power in the WH changes the way that individuals conduct
themselves in a discussion group. We get to decide every day what we
want the group to be, and if enough people are willing to proactively
abide by the standards they would like to see others abide by as well
then things do change for the better.

RCE wrote:
"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
ups.com...

On Feb 14, 11:32?am, "Corsair23" wrote:

Condolences to the OP who ventured into rec.boats to meet up with a
hostile response from some guy who needed to make repeated references
to the male
organ. Do stick around, this type of nonsense used to be, but isn't
really any longer commonly encountered here.


"Corsair23" is yet another googlegroups poster. I realize that use of it
and other web-based forums that
basically grab and re-publish posts from newsgroups are becoming more common
but I can't help but think that newsgroups were of an overall higher quality
before they became popular.

Higher class, educated and in general, articulate.

Now days - it's like CB, only in this case, it's typing instead of using
a microphone.