Lee, it is a great idea, the problem with web based groups is you have to
promote and/or advertise the group to get a group of regulars. It is not
quite as easy as sorting out UseNet groups for things you are interested in.

The advantage is obvious, you would have a group discussing boats, without
all of the name calling and OT political crap. It might make sense to use
rec.boats for the flame wars and OT discussions. Those who want a true
boating forum could add a sig file on the bottom of their posts promoting
your true boating forum.


"Lee Yeaton" wrote in message
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"QLW" wrote in message
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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

I know I'll get slammed for this but.....

Why don't we just start a new group ourselves. Instead of doing it on
Usenet we could do it on the Internet.

I can get some free server space for a year and I'll buy the domain name,
it's $20.00 so it's not a lot of money. I also know where to get free
message board software. You can see the software on my other site
chesapeakeforums.com. All we would need is a list of topics and some
people
to donate their time to moderate.

Think of it like a boatered but not moderated by a business owner, but
moderated by us. If a moderator gets out of line we can vote him off.
The
group would have control, not just one person.

I am sure I left out a bunch of details but I think this is doable if we
can
get the people to donate some time and to participate.

Ok, let me have it......

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Lee Yeaton
www.thebayguide.com

the boats of rec.boats
www.thebayguide.com/rec.boats