Your noble attempt to champion the timid reflects your view of what
Usenet should be: a place to kibitz with friends. Although many
newsgroups have degenerated to that level, thankfully this one hasn't
yet. That's what makes it attractive and useful. When it becomes a
bunch of grandmas chatting over the back fence, you will not see me
posting any longer.

What you fail to see is that your harsh criticism of anything you find
less than worthy is keeping many educated, experienced airmen from
posting. Your verbal barbs, meant to be smart bombs, are actually
closer to carpet bombing in their effect. And the resulting collateral
damage is killing our allies as well as the enemy.

Please, let's not welcome those comments that would cause the lay
public think we airmen are a bunch of vulgar simpletons and
Philistines who lack critical thinking skills.

First you do everything you can to keep people -- especially the lay
public -- from posting here. In the next breath you're worried about
what they might think of us?

Obviously we are at opposite ends of the spectrum on this issue. I
have history on my side.

I, unlike you, enjoy posts of all sorts in this group, but (in case you
haven't noticed) the posting group has recently shrunk to historically
low numbers. There seems to be about 20 regular posters left here,
which is down considerably from past years. I attribute this to a
number of things, but one major reason is the harsh slap-downs that
many new posters have received when they stuck their toe in the
rec.aviation waters...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"