"Oci-One Kanubi" wrote in message
ps.com...
On Oct 28, 11:29 pm, John Kuthe wrote:
On Oct 28, 8:51 pm, John Kuthe wrote:

On Oct 28, 8:17 pm, (Drew Dalgleish)
wrote:

Gee my sever must be taking great care of me. I've been mostly
lurking
here for years and only seeing 5 to 10 posts a day mostly on topic
with very few flame wars. I like checking in on this group except
when the sponson thing happens

I just Googled "Tim Imgram", and there's a LOT of Tim Ingrams out
there!

Good ole Sponson Boy! I wonder what meds he's on these days! ;-)

"'Good' ole Sponson Boy?" The advent of Ingram and Njall, just at the
point of technology when alternative online forums (elsewhere adduced)
were emerging, is the biggest single reason for the demise of our
favorite online hangout. Those guys turned away enough of our number,
who by then had different places to go for similar correspondence, to
reduce our numbers below the critical mass necessary to keep such a
forum vibrant and progressive. These guys are mindless vandals who
destroyed a thing of beauty, out of simple selfish glee.

I hung in there for several years after the sponson wars, but there
were just too few of us to keep any good discussions going, so I
finally gave up and went to BoaterTalk. As fate would have it, Eric
Princen, owner of BoaterTalk, around then had cleaned up BoaterTalk's
act sufficiently that I was able to enjoy it. So there was both a
carrot and a stick drawing me away from r.b.p.

I've continued to check in almost daily over the last few years, just
popping my head in and rarely seeing any new threads of interest to me
(Bill Tuthill's wonderful trip reports being the most glaring
exception), and now I find that over the last few months I am looking
in less and less frequently. Today is the first time in a week or
more. Yet I still check BoaterTalk, Paddle Prattle, and CBoats.net
almost daily, and get a flood of eMail from the lists of three
paddling clubs.

So long, friends. I still hope to run into all of you on some river
some time. I hope NOT to run into Ingram or Njall, because then I
might end up in jail.

-Richard, His Kanubic Travesty
--
Richard Hopley, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Nothing really matters except Boats, Sex, and Rock'n'Roll


Good lord, I have been bopping in and out of here longer than I thought -
even I vaguely remember the sponson wars, though not any personalities
associated with them...or even what the actual argument was. Sponson is
just sort of one of those words that sticks in your head if repeated often
enough.

Cricket