HEMI-Powered wrote:
joevan added these comments in the current discussion du jour ...

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Starting years ago with Tallships, we ran out of pictures from,
Tallships. Then the regulars decided to accept any ship because
we are all lovers of the sea.
Even lighthouses are allowed, even a wooden shoe with a sail.
That keeps this NG alive.
If we only accepted tallships this group would be dead by now.
What Bouler said. I approve.

jevan, I hardly want to inject some sillyness about formalizing the
activities of this NG with a set of rules/FAQs unless there is
broad support for such a thing. But, do you, Bouler, anyone think
that at least an INFORMAL document should be put together? I'm also
not trying to create work for anyone, I certainly don't have the
time to take this on. Perhaps it is a moot question since everyone
seems to get along quite well with no FAQs or even posting
guidelines and I've not seen any flame wars as far back as my NSP
has posts so there must be pretty universal agreement with what is
being posted and folks must either like it or are at least neutral.

So, what do you and the others think might/should be done, if
anything? What brought this up is the ice-breaking "ship" which I
personally found extremely interesting as I've never seen such a
beast nor ever even thought about why it might be necessary, so I
say - bring 'em on!

We are all familiar with the term rules are made to be broken.

There is no trouble until the rules get broken. This is the most
laid back newsgroup I have seen in over twenty years of usernet.
My advice is, If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it.

By the way there are many unusual craft on or near the water
Cranes, Dredges, Platforms etc. For example:

http://www.boeing.com/special/sea-launch/

I wouldn't mind seeing photos of these. Not much chance of that
thing floating down the Red River in January. Seems like a few
others here have quite an active curiosity as well.

LdB