Posted by AADIVER on August 27, 2001 at 16:00:45:
It's one thing to characterize a piece of diving equipment as unnecessary and to suggest viable alternatives, it's quite another to be derisive of both the item in question and the diver(s) who utilize it. Being derided and ridiculed is hardly the way to attract divers to alternate and perhaps improved gear configurations. Sock puppet's another one; two of the reasons why DIR/GUE is being resisted by most recreational divers on this Board and elsewhere.