On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:51:44 -0800, "QLW" wrote:

It's plainly obvious that this newsgroup has become almost useless as a
boating forum. Rec.cruising, rec.boats.building and alt.sailing are good
but there is also a need for a general boating forum where one does not have
to wade through all of the political crap and in-fighting posted here. I
can't figure out why people insist on doing this...but they do! So how is a
new news group formed? To bad we can't make this one moderated to limit the
content to boating related topics.
Quinton


Here's some information to get you started:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/crea...sgroups/part1/ (How to create a new
newsgroup)

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/moderated-ng-faq/ (moderated newsgroups FAQ)

http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/mod-pitfalls.html (Pitfalls of moderated
newsgroups)

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...&output=gplain
(moderated newsgroups FAQ)

HTH,
Joe Parsons