What you are talking about is a piece of cake to set up and run... however,
being so, there are literally thousands of the same thing out there on the
Internet. What would make ours so much more special than any of the others?

That's what needs to come to mind when deciding the fate of r.o.f.b.
Personally, I think our specialty is Usenet.

We have nothing to offer but advice, so unless we want to start giving away
gifts and prizes... and who can afford to continue doing that as well as
paying for the server?

BTW: Not flaming you... just answering your question.

"Henry Hefner" wrote in message
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Bob La Londe wrote:

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?
-snip-

I was wondering if there was anything I could do with the ROFB
site to help boost quality participation in the group.


I know I'll probably get flamed from the Usenet purists, but most today
don't even know what Usenet is. I read every post to ROFB, but I don't
post much because I have little to offer. Newbies google bass fishing, or
fishing forum, and even if they found info on ROFB, they either would find
their ISP doesn't offer Usenet, or would think it to big a hassle to find
info here when there are so many other forums out there that they can just
click a link to. I think that if the group seriously wants more users,
they need to go web-based. Google groups isn't the most user-friendly way
to post and read. If the ROFB site could offer a web browser friendly
interface to post and read here, participation would go up. I don't know
what that would involve technically, I am just assuming that it can be
done since Google does it.