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On Feb 14, 1:47�pm, "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. 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. |
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New Boat Discounts
"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 |
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New Boat Discounts
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. |
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