Topic? New / Accurate newsgroups needed?

Dear all,

As a newbie to Scuba-diving I decided to look into a few newsgroups to
educate myself before choosing what to buy.

As always, I check into a couple of newsgroups, both european mainland, UK
and US ones, to get some focus on what other people's views are.

Yet I'm quite baffled about the subjects that go arround in this one. As
much as I appreciate some people's opinion on diving gear, technicques and
methodes, while looking for diving stuff, it consumes a lot of time reading
about political and ethical views about guns, wars and other stuff that
drives people towards agressive discussions and sometimes even provocative
or offensive language against each other.

I feel that an in depth discussion about the two (on sales-numbers)
favorites Mares and Scubapro and their cold water features, although
indoubtly already chewed out many times in the past, could help educate new
scuba-divers and lead to new insights much better.

I realise not every topic can be repeated every week or two, but being
enthousiast as I know most divers are, there should be plenty of subjects to
discuss.

Just a happy new diver, eager for knowledge,

Frank

"El Mecky" <elmecky@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:4371ef38$0$8021$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be...
> Dear all,
>
> Just a happy new diver, eager for knowledge,

You won't stay happy for long if you read this news group. You sure as hell
won't become knowledgeable about diving either. The name of the news group
is misleading. A name like "I think _____", then your post is your thought.
That still may confound, but it would eliminate unsuspecting posters mislead
by the scuba title. Change that "Dear all" to Dear John and beat keys to a
better source to meet your needs.

"El Mecky" <elmecky@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:4371ef38$0$8021$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be...
> As a newbie to Scuba-diving I decided to look into a few newsgroups to
> educate myself before choosing what to buy.

Do a google groups search... We've discussed it all before...

> Yet I'm quite baffled about the subjects that go arround in this one. As
> much as I appreciate some people's opinion on diving gear, technicques and
> methodes, while looking for diving stuff, it consumes a lot of time
reading
> about political and ethical views about guns, wars and other stuff that
> drives people towards agressive discussions and sometimes even provocative
> or offensive language against each other.

http://www.geocities.com/grumman581/...-rec-scuba.htm

We're the SCUBA version of a biker bar... *Sometimes* we discuss diving,
most of the time, we discuss other things... Once you understand and accept
this, you'll fit in...

>
> We're the SCUBA version of a biker bar... *Sometimes* we discuss diving,
> most of the time, we discuss other things... Once you understand and
accept
> this, you'll fit in...

people fit in here?

"El Mecky" <elmecky@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:4371ef38$0$8021$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be:

> Dear all,
>
> As a newbie to Scuba-diving I decided to look into a few newsgroups to
> educate myself before choosing what to buy.
>
> As always, I check into a couple of newsgroups, both european
> mainland, UK and US ones, to get some focus on what other people's
> views are.
>
> Yet I'm quite baffled about the subjects that go arround in this one.
> As much as I appreciate some people's opinion on diving gear,
> technicques and methodes, while looking for diving stuff, it consumes
> a lot of time reading about political and ethical views about guns,
> wars and other stuff that drives people towards agressive discussions
> and sometimes even provocative or offensive language against each
> other.
>
> I feel that an in depth discussion about the two (on sales-numbers)
> favorites Mares and Scubapro and their cold water features, although
> indoubtly already chewed out many times in the past, could help
> educate new scuba-divers and lead to new insights much better.
>
> I realise not every topic can be repeated every week or two, but being
> enthousiast as I know most divers are, there should be plenty of
> subjects to discuss.
>
> Just a happy new diver, eager for knowledge,
>
> Frank
>
>
>

Frank,

rec.scuba is as rec.scuba is. Don't compare it to nl.sport.duiken.

If you're looking for another forum where they/we talk about diving go to
http://zoekertjes.duiken.be/default.asp

--
Michael Wolf

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Cthulhu For President.
Why settle for the lesser evil?

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Grumman-581 wrote:

> We're the SCUBA version of a biker bar...

I have difficulties imagining us as a bunch of tatooed guys wearing
fins and open-chested neoprene jackets discussing the merits of the
customized u/w scooters parked in front...

Cheers,

Froggy

"Longshot" wrote in message news:9uncf.525919$x96.214374@attbi_s72...
> people fit in here?

Of course... Square peg, round hole, big hammer...

Froggy wrote:
> Grumman-581 wrote:
>
>
>>We're the SCUBA version of a biker bar...
>
>
> I have difficulties imagining us as a bunch of tatooed guys wearing
> fins and open-chested neoprene jackets discussing the merits of the
> customized u/w scooters parked in front...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Froggy
>

Thank God you didn't imagine us as tatooed guys wearing latex, in a 'bar'...

--
Michael Wolf

-----

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Why settle for the lesser evil?

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"Grumman-581" <grumman581@DIE-SPAMMER-SCUM@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "El Mecky" <elmecky@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4371ef38$0$8021$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be...
>> As a newbie to Scuba-diving I decided to look into a few newsgroups to
>> educate myself before choosing what to buy.
>
> Do a google groups search... We've discussed it all before...
>
>> Yet I'm quite baffled about the subjects that go arround in this one. As
>> much as I appreciate some people's opinion on diving gear, technicques
>> and
>> methodes, while looking for diving stuff, it consumes a lot of time
> reading
>> about political and ethical views about guns, wars and other stuff that
>> drives people towards agressive discussions and sometimes even
>> provocative
>> or offensive language against each other.
>
> http://www.geocities.com/grumman581/...-rec-scuba.htm
>
> We're the SCUBA version of a biker bar... *Sometimes* we discuss diving,
> most of the time, we discuss other things... Once you understand and
> accept
> this, you'll fit in...
>
>Your more of a pathetic cunt in a chat room than a diver in a biker bar.
>What a fucking loser.

"Froggy" <hub666@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1131546694.071062.204940@f14g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...
>
> Grumman-581 wrote:
>
> > We're the SCUBA version of a biker bar...
>
> I have difficulties imagining us as a bunch of tatooed guys wearing
> fins and open-chested neoprene jackets discussing the merits of the
> customized u/w scooters parked in front...

You have no tatts?