"Mick Fournier" wrote and I snippped:

Newsgroups participation could easily be argued to be down because every
question about a topic (especially orchids) can be answered
instantaneously now by just Googling the question...

Most googled orchid culture questions will return a thread from our group on
page 1 or 2. Anyone googling 'orchid photo theft' will not find much useful
in RGO and move on.