so, lemme see if I got this right....

as long as I don't work for West Marine, I can post about that company
to my heart's content. Bash 'em, praise 'em, recommend them - spit on
them... ad nauseum.... In fact, I can admit to working for WM, and
defend them here on this forum. Or perhaps, say.... Boat/US, which I
have, and I do.

BUT, if I run a non-profit website like Active Captain, I'm supposed to
never speak of it? Never ever answer a listee's question about it? for
what reason?

Meanwhile, many posters like Claiborne and Chuck add their websites,
like "www.cruisingguides.com" in their signiture, and no one seems to care?

Georgs, it that is true...I mean really really true, then so long...Jeff
and Active Captain deserve our support, and the full support of the
owners of this forum. If you don't post something to that effect soon,
you will lose members.

Wait a few days before resigning.
Doug Gould
Water Torture

I think you have said it right. Nobody, but nobody wants advertising, but I think that everybody wants facts and useful information. If that information happens to come from an owner of a product, was in response to a question, and does not "pitch" in the selling sense, that's a good thing. Unless we are saying that we prefer to have the most inexperienced in a product inform us, in which case the list really does lose it's usefullness. One could do better by "Googling". We're all adults (at least in the age sense, I think) on this list and are quite capable of deleting messages that contain advertising slants. I for one don't like the thought of anyone determining what I read or what I am able to read.

From: Douglas Gould doug@5goulds.com
To: trawlers-and-trawlering@lists.samurai.com
Sent: Sun, January 3, 2010 2:28:05 PM
Subject: T&T: commercial, T&T, et al...

so, lemme see if I got this right....

as long as I don't work for West Marine, I can post about that company to my heart's content. Bash 'em, praise 'em, recommend them - spit on them... ad nauseum.... In fact, I can admit to working for WM, and defend them here on this forum. Or perhaps, say.... Boat/US, which I have, and I do.

BUT, if I run a non-profit website like Active Captain, I'm supposed to never speak of it? Never ever answer a listee's question about it? for what reason?

Meanwhile, many posters like Claiborne and Chuck add their websites, like "www.cruisingguides.com" in their signiture, and no one seems to care?

Georgs, it that is true...I mean really really true, then so long...Jeff and Active Captain deserve our support, and the full support of the owners of this forum. If you don't post something to that effect soon, you will lose members.

Wait a few days before resigning.
Doug Gould
Water Torture

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I wanted to thank those list members who explained the different net weights
found on exchange tanks! I exchanged today at Wal-Mart and noted that the
non-Rhino trade-in tank AND the new Rhino tank were 15lbs. net weight - so
here in Washington, NC we are uniformly screwed. One actual refill place is
a nearby Ace Hardware and I'll have to ask them what their practice is. If I
correctly understand our list member who was formerly in the industry, they
all should be refilling to 17.4lbs. That is what I'll be looking for in
future. I remember a refill station back in Annapolis which used to appear
to blow the tank clean and then fill using a scale. I now realize that I
have no idea what weight I was receiving.

Out cruising, I would like to start out with a maximum fill - even if I have
to pay extra.

Thank you all for raising my consumer awareness,
Ron Rogers & George
32F in Washington, NC (Daytime)