I'm sorry.....I thought this NG was for boaters.

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Milky-G wrote:
> Obviously, this isn't the newsgroup I thought it was. This must be
the
> political ranting, ego bashing, off topic forum that I thought I
already
> unsubscribed from last week. My mistake.

The title is deceiving. Years ago this was a boating newsgroup.
Today, most of the frequent posters to the NG are non-boaters.
Most of the so called "threads" are just blatant political trolls, and
lately one group of like-minded individuals sharing a common poliltical
and philosophical view of the world have specialized in launching
threads for the sole purpose of name calling and other juvenile
behavior.

Nobody would seriously expect a newcomer to hang around here. The
boating aspect of rec.boats is dead as a doornail. When somebody makes
a boating related statement, he or she can expect long-winded, mean
spirited responses from people who disagree on the subject but who
cannot express their contrary opinion in a civil, responsible tone.

This NG is becoming a toilet. No point hanging around hoping it will
get better, as some of the perpetrators have publicly expressed, in
this forum, that their goal in rec.boats NG is to screw it up as badly
as they can.

Worse yet, nearly all are gulty of at least some bad behavior- myself
included.
Get the heck out of the asylum while there's still time. Flee for your
life, man!
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On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:35:43 -0500, "Milky-G" wrote:

>Obviously, this isn't the newsgroup I thought it was. This must be the
>political ranting, ego bashing, off topic forum that I thought I already
>unsubscribed from last week. My mistake.

Yes it was. This group is about lobsters.
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....and the boats from which they're caught.
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Harry,
If anyone can take responsibility for the tone of rec.boats, it is you.


"Harry Krause" wrote in message

> gould0738 RemoveThis @aol.com wrote:
>> Milky-G wrote:
>>
>>>Obviously, this isn't the newsgroup I thought it was. This must be
>>
>> the
>>
>>>political ranting, ego bashing, off topic forum that I thought I
>>
>> already
>>
>>>unsubscribed from last week. My mistake.
>>
>>
>> The title is deceiving. Years ago this was a boating newsgroup.
>> Today, most of the frequent posters to the NG are non-boaters.
>> Most of the so called "threads" are just blatant political trolls, and
>> lately one group of like-minded individuals sharing a common poliltical
>> and philosophical view of the world have specialized in launching
>> threads for the sole purpose of name calling and other juvenile
>> behavior.
>>
>> Nobody would seriously expect a newcomer to hang around here. The
>> boating aspect of rec.boats is dead as a doornail. When somebody makes
>> a boating related statement, he or she can expect long-winded, mean
>> spirited responses from people who disagree on the subject but who
>> cannot express their contrary opinion in a civil, responsible tone.
>>
>> This NG is becoming a toilet. No point hanging around hoping it will
>> get better, as some of the perpetrators have publicly expressed, in
>> this forum, that their goal in rec.boats NG is to screw it up as badly
>> as they can.
>>
>> Worse yet, nearly all are gulty of at least some bad behavior- myself
>> included.
>> Get the heck out of the asylum while there's still time. Flee for your
>> life, man!
>>
>
>
> I think you've understated the problem, Chuckster.
>
>
> There are about a half-dozen posters here who either never post about a
> boating topic or do so so infrequently that I cannot recall their last
> on-topic "contribution."
>
> Now, off-topic posting doesn't offend me. I'm as guilty as anyone of this.
> I either read an off-topic post or I don't.
>
> It is the viciousness of some of these posters I find obnoxious. So
> obnoxious that I have filtered most of them out. They are here solely as
> attack dogs, as far as I can tell. I believe their purpose in showing up
> here is to destroy this newsgroup. They're pretty much succeeded.
>
> We also have two infrequent posters here who start nearly violent
> arguments on on-topic matters with almost every post. One, a sailboater,
> argues minor issues to the point of nauseum. The other gets off by posting
> incredible long and horribly written psychotic screeds about those on that
> individual's "s-list."
>
> Within these groups are a couple of individuals who log on here solely to
> create problems of some sort for those they do not like. If there is a
> lower life form on usenet, I'm unaware of it.
>
> I don't spend much time here anymore. When I take breaks from work and
> want to read a bit on subjects that interest me, or engage in reasonable
> discourse, I head to places where there are fewer droolers.
>
> I don't know if this newsgroup can recover.
>
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AMEN! As far as I can tell, this newsgroup is dead. I received some help,
and gave some (I hope), but last years election destroyed this group.
Filtering doesn't help unfortunately. I hope we can recover.

--Mike

wrote in message

>
> Milky-G wrote:
>> Obviously, this isn't the newsgroup I thought it was. This must be
> the
>> political ranting, ego bashing, off topic forum that I thought I
> already
>> unsubscribed from last week. My mistake.
>
> The title is deceiving. Years ago this was a boating newsgroup.
> Today, most of the frequent posters to the NG are non-boaters.
> Most of the so called "threads" are just blatant political trolls, and
> lately one group of like-minded individuals sharing a common poliltical
> and philosophical view of the world have specialized in launching
> threads for the sole purpose of name calling and other juvenile
> behavior.
>
> Nobody would seriously expect a newcomer to hang around here. The
> boating aspect of rec.boats is dead as a doornail. When somebody makes
> a boating related statement, he or she can expect long-winded, mean
> spirited responses from people who disagree on the subject but who
> cannot express their contrary opinion in a civil, responsible tone.
>
> This NG is becoming a toilet. No point hanging around hoping it will
> get better, as some of the perpetrators have publicly expressed, in
> this forum, that their goal in rec.boats NG is to screw it up as badly
> as they can.
>
> Worse yet, nearly all are gulty of at least some bad behavior- myself
> included.
> Get the heck out of the asylum while there's still time. Flee for your
> life, man!
>
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On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:03:55 -0500, "Dr. Jonathan Smithers, MD Phd."
wrote:

>Harry,
>If anyone can take responsibility for the tone of rec.boats, it is you.
>
>

See, Harry's attacks are neither vicious nor obnoxious. His attacks, although
almost continuous from what I can see, are gentlemanly and welcomed.


>"Harry Krause" wrote in message
>

>> It is the viciousness of some of these posters I find obnoxious.


John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."
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"Dr. Jonathan Smithers, MD Phd." wrote in message

> Harry,
> If anyone can take responsibility for the tone of rec.boats, it is you.

Harry complaing about the 'viciousness' of posts........LMAO.......I think
he's trying to contend for the "King" title


>
>
> "Harry Krause" wrote in message
>
>> gould0738 DeleteThis @aol.com wrote:
>>> Milky-G wrote:
>>>
>>>>Obviously, this isn't the newsgroup I thought it was. This must be
>>>
>>> the
>>>
>>>>political ranting, ego bashing, off topic forum that I thought I
>>>
>>> already
>>>
>>>>unsubscribed from last week. My mistake.
>>>
>>>
>>> The title is deceiving. Years ago this was a boating newsgroup.
>>> Today, most of the frequent posters to the NG are non-boaters.
>>> Most of the so called "threads" are just blatant political trolls, and
>>> lately one group of like-minded individuals sharing a common poliltical
>>> and philosophical view of the world have specialized in launching
>>> threads for the sole purpose of name calling and other juvenile
>>> behavior.
>>>
>>> Nobody would seriously expect a newcomer to hang around here. The
>>> boating aspect of rec.boats is dead as a doornail. When somebody makes
>>> a boating related statement, he or she can expect long-winded, mean
>>> spirited responses from people who disagree on the subject but who
>>> cannot express their contrary opinion in a civil, responsible tone.
>>>
>>> This NG is becoming a toilet. No point hanging around hoping it will
>>> get better, as some of the perpetrators have publicly expressed, in
>>> this forum, that their goal in rec.boats NG is to screw it up as badly
>>> as they can.
>>>
>>> Worse yet, nearly all are gulty of at least some bad behavior- myself
>>> included.
>>> Get the heck out of the asylum while there's still time. Flee for your
>>> life, man!
>>>
>>
>>
>> I think you've understated the problem, Chuckster.
>>
>>
>> There are about a half-dozen posters here who either never post about a
>> boating topic or do so so infrequently that I cannot recall their last
>> on-topic "contribution."
>>
>> Now, off-topic posting doesn't offend me. I'm as guilty as anyone of
>> this. I either read an off-topic post or I don't.
>>
>> It is the viciousness of some of these posters I find obnoxious. So
>> obnoxious that I have filtered most of them out. They are here solely as
>> attack dogs, as far as I can tell. I believe their purpose in showing up
>> here is to destroy this newsgroup. They're pretty much succeeded.
>>
>> We also have two infrequent posters here who start nearly violent
>> arguments on on-topic matters with almost every post. One, a sailboater,
>> argues minor issues to the point of nauseum. The other gets off by
>> posting incredible long and horribly written psychotic screeds about
>> those on that individual's "s-list."
>>
>> Within these groups are a couple of individuals who log on here solely to
>> create problems of some sort for those they do not like. If there is a
>> lower life form on usenet, I'm unaware of it.
>>
>> I don't spend much time here anymore. When I take breaks from work and
>> want to read a bit on subjects that interest me, or engage in reasonable
>> discourse, I head to places where there are fewer droolers.
>>
>> I don't know if this newsgroup can recover.
>>
>
>
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On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:35:43 -0500, "Milky-G" wrote:

>Obviously, this isn't the newsgroup I thought it was. This must be the
>political ranting, ego bashing, off topic forum that I thought I already
>unsubscribed from last week. My mistake.

Yes, your mistake. This group is my very own platform to show my vast
and superior boating knowledge.

You should consider yourself lucky, I dont contact your ISP, and have
you arrested.
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