Bob La Londe wrote:
"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.



That is exactly what I was thinking of. Add forums and you become just
like the others. Stay bass only and the riff-raff will go where there is
more action. The attraction here is Quality over Quantity, you don't
have to wade through a lot of garbage to find jewels. The problem is,
you do need SOME quantity.