In article , gould0738
@aol.com says...
Interesting site.

Plug in a few other NG's while there, and you will see that the trend is the
same for almost all.

rec.boats.cruising dropped from 3832
"people" (still don't know what they mean by that number) in year 2000 to 2133
in 2003.

rec.boats dropped from 6754 in the year 2000 to 3603 in 2003.

One factor may be that people had stopped "churning" as the ISP's called
it. That is, they stopped hopping from one service to another and found
a home somewhere.

I think hi speed DSL and cable modems had a big effect.