Mxs wins.

flyin_coyote wrote:
Don't hurry back. Its a public forum not your personnel newsgroup. If you
don't like it you should leave and find one that fits your needs. Maybe you

You're right that the newsgroups are public fora. However, when they
were started, people were supposed to abide by each newsgroup's
charter, though there would be no one to police such activity except
each forum's own contributors. The charters for the rec.aviation
newsgroups can be found at
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aviation/faq/preamble.html.

According to the charter for the rec.aviation newsgroups,
rec.aviation.piloting is for "general discussion for aviators."
According to Merriam-Webster, an aviator is "the operator or pilot of
an aircraft and especially an airplane." MXS doesn't appear to be an
aviator, at least by this definition. Many of his questions are more
appropriate for other newsgroups. For example, many of his postings
are probably more appropriate for the rec.aviation.simulators or
rec.aviation.student newsgroups.

This newsgroup has certainly deteriorated in the (nearly) decade that
I've been reading it (using this and other email addresses). If people
used the most appropriate newsgroups for their postings, the value of
the newsgroups increases for everyone. If people post blindly to
whichever newsgroup is most convenient or will provoke the most
reaction, the newsgroups lose value for us all. Sadly, it has lost
value for at least one of our contributors.