On Feb 22, 8:43?pm, "Reginald P. Smithers III" "remove
wrote:
Chuck Gould wrote:
On Feb 22, 3:21?pm, "JimH" wrote:
"Chuck Gould" wrote in message

roups.com...

In the interest of sustaining this worthwhile feature in the NG.....
Here are several online nautical word/phrase dictionaries, one that even
offers a nautical word of the day:

http://www.geocities.com/cjstein_2000/dictionary.html

http://www.seatalk.info/

http://www.marinewaypoints.com/learn...glossary.shtml

The purpose of the NG isn't to come up with astonishing content that
can't be found anywhere else in the world, it's to kick around ideas
(not personalities) for discussion.

Chuck,
Now that we have those 3 links, we no longer need to discuss boating in
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That's a frequently recurring theme. The value of Google or other
search engines is to locate sources of often conflicting information.
The value of a NG, (IMO) is to create a place where people can discuss
and debate ideas that relate to the topic, share personal experiences,
etc. The NG would be a very frustrating format for anybody who felt
their only purpose was to extract an enormous amount of general
information, and I agree with JimH, Shortwave, and others that there's
no shortage of free information already circulating on nearly any
conceivable subject. Much of that free information is worth exactly
the selling price.