Andrew Gideon wrote:

But these rec.aviation.* groups do tend to maintain a higher level of
literacy. I'm not sure why that is.

I would guess that it's because most people who earn enough to be involved in both
aviation and usenet needed a fair amount of education to get to that point.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.