"Charles Summers" wrote in message
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What made/makes r.o.f.b. so great is it's lack of commercialism.

OUCH!!! I think I just heard Ken Fortenburys stack blow... but hear me
out.

Sure, there are a few questionable posts here from people who could be
classified as spammers... but the group itself has no real affiliation
with any one entity. Example is if you hosted the forums on
YumaBassMan.com... you have the option to do any number of things with the
boards beyond anyone elses control, and anyone coming into the forums
would automatically associate them with YumaBassMan. Same thing if Secret
Weapon Lures or anyone else re-created r.o.f.b. in a web-based
environment. r.o.f.b. isn't yours, it isn't mine, it's everybodies. Other
than to report spammers to their ISP's... we really have no say so in what
get's posted here, or what happens.

No, no, no, no. A web portal for R.O.F.B. (if I did it anyway) would just
be installed on the ROFB website as a stand alone site and application.
Basically you could interact with ROFB via the web portal anytime a Usenet
server was not available, or if you are just an Internet newbie who doesn't
have a clue what Usenet is. (I still don't know how to do it exactly, but I
am sure I could figure it out if it was wanted.)

No commercialism involved. Just another easier way for the uninitiated to
find their way here. The people who could really use your advice.

ROFB has been hosted as a parked domain pointing to a subdirectory on SWL's
hosting server for the last several years, until it was moved to mine.
That's just a technicality. Other than a tiny notice at the bottom of the
home page ROFB's website is ROFBs for the benefit of ROFB, and I don't think
anybody thought otherwise. I was not implying in anyway that ROFB should
become a part of Yuma Bass Man or Outdoor Frontiers or SWL. Just that a
Usenet web portal on the ROFB web site that accessed Usenet for the sole
purpose of reading and participating in ROFB might result in an occasional
new participant.

I'm not talking about setting up a group of forums. I could do that if I
wanted to. I could even do like the fish easy guy did and copy usenet
activity onto a forum. I'm talking about ROFB's own access to this Usenet
group without the need of every single person having to learn about how
Usenet works like most of us did back when every ISP offered Usenet access.