"It's a new year!" wrote in message
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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.

Marketing the site would be necessary. But most people can use Google
easily enough. Once your there your almost everywhere. Plus, I market my
site all the time it wouldn't be that much trouble to add another URL to my
workload.

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Lee Yeaton
www.thebayguide.com

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