On Sun, 7 Aug 2005 10:48:25 -0400, Michael Doelle
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Somebody from FLA posted to the list:
>
>>review scuba-se<
>
>What a maroon.
>
>m

What kind of email or LIST reader you use, DING DONG II?

Didn't your reader show that the maroon was DING DONG I?

Actually DING DONG I was trying to see who came over from
his playground rec.scuba, because I was giving a new Brit
there a quick rundown on the scuba groups in the USA, and
I had this to say about Scuba-SE:

RF> You would have LOVED that forum (in its good old days) where
RF> experts in all areas of scuba can be found to discuss and debate
RF> substantive issues relating to SCUBA!

RF> Alas, those remaining few don't make big enough a core group to
RF> sustain interest in topics that had been thoroughly discussed in
RF> prior years and there weren't enough new blood even to ask in
RF> depth questions to re-start some good topics.

RF< NOW you know much about the US scuba groups in which knowledgeable
RF> scuba divers dwelled.  I used the past tense because it's pretty much
RF> a VACUUM now.  Rec.scuba.locations is probably as good as any.  There
RF> are occasional flashes of usefulness in rec.scuba still, but one
RF> has to sift through a lot of chaft to find a stalk of wheat or a
RF> a palatable acorn on SCUBA.

L