Yeah, get Al back !!! Couldn't help myself. ;-)


"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
...
Well, its obviously declining in some groups. The, "euthanize the human
species to prevent child exploitation," group has also managed to do their
fair share of damage with many more ISPs now dropping Usenet. Still, I
have noticed some groups continue to have a good core of members who
participate, share information, and ask good solid questions.

The welding and metalworking groups I read are good examples once I found
a Usenet server that filtered out the spam. There are tons of
professional and amateur welders, machinists, and foundry guys on those
groups with about a billion years combined experience. Those groups are
probably some of the best example of why Usenet was created to begin with.

As far as ROFB. I have not seen a lot of new users posting lately, and it
seemed that some of the best information shared here when I started
reading the group was when a newbie would come on asking a bunch of
questions. So how do we get a bunch of newbies interested again?

As some of you know I started managing the ROFB.net FAQ site last week,
(actually I had the name transferred to my registrar account over a year
ago) and I extended the registration period. I finally got the site
transferred over to my hosting account and uploaded last week. I'ld like
to thank Joe and Charles and Andrew for managing it for all this time, and
Joe for extra ordinary effort dealing with the transfer. Anyway. I was
wondering if there was anything I could do with the ROFB site to help
boost quality participation in the group.

Bob La Londe