Popularity of Usenet - Affects on ROFB

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