First comment - Unlike that majority of other usenet groups that have
devolved into horrific piles of scams and fake goods for sale (shoes,
watches, sex, etc, etc) causing all the useful denizens to go to other
more monitored/moderated blogs to continue their conversations -
rec.aviation.soaring seems to have kept its core values intact (with
only the very occasional scams and fake goods for sale).

Lennie Redux - If you are interested you can still find some of his
RAS rants from back around 2000. Go to http://groups.google.com/group/rec.aviation.soaring
and search for "Lennie the Lurker".

- John