Tim wrote:

DownTime wrote:
this used to be a decent group of knowledgeable people, asking and
offering useful advise on boating related topics. now just a bunch of
political BS whining and bitching from those who don't actually really
go boating anymore.

Well, I'm not going to totally disagree with you. But actually there
are several people here that do have quite a bit of boating knowledge.
True, there's lots of BS that seems to liquidly flow though ehre on a
daily basis. But I'm not speaking for all, but I would say that for a
great many people that hang around here, this is off boat posting
season. Mine will be tucked away for at least another couple months
so... I'm not going boating for a while yet. Then I'll be posting more
boating questions and experiences.

It does seem that year around, rec.boats.cuising does have less
blather and more boating posts IMO.


The newsgroup is filled with boatless posters, or posters with boats who
have little or no interest in boating or fishing, or posters who know
next to nothing about boating, but are opinionated nonetheless.

The problems are exacerbated by the large number of "anonymous" posters
infecting the newsgroup.

When usenet "outlaws" anonymous posting, usenet will once again become
useful.