BoyPete wrote:
Hello Some months ago, someone by the name of Tim Hills set up a forum
for pondkeepers. Unfortunately, for reasons not know, the forum disappeared.
I only have a small garden, and planting is now mainly pot based, plus a
pond. I know many keen gardeners also have ponds. Being in need of a pond
group, all I found was a group full of trolls. I have a friend who runs a
forum with several boards covering different interests. (
http://www.karlsforums.com/forums/ ) If I can find enough support, he is
prepared to initiate a pond forum. It is intended to be mainly for 'back
garden ponders' rather than more specialised/expensive set-ups. If anyone
here is interested, the link below will take you to my thread in KF
requesting the forum. You may if you like, join KF's and post a support
message.
http://www.karlsforums.com/forums/fo...lay.php?fid=23

It's not in the slightest bit off-topic! Gardens is what
uk.rec.gardening does, and that includes ponds by definition.

Not trying to rain on your parade, but I'd say sticking with an
established Usenet group was a better way to get discussions going than
starting a new and perhaps too specialised non-Usenet one which not may
people would know about. Most people, too, probably limit the number of
separate groups they read -- I know I couldn't handle any more than my
regular two plus a few occasionals.

My theory about rec.ponds, if that's the wrecked group you meant, was
that its user base was too small to swamp the trolls, and that was
because it was too specialised. We do get trolls and spam here in
u.r.g., but (touch wood!) the nuisance is usually easy to deal with if
you're using a conventional newsreader with a killfile. At present I'm
using Google groups, which is an archive not a newsreader, and so
doesn't killfile (just because I'm too lazy to sort out a problem
paying for the German server), and even with that I find it easy enough
to ignore the garbage.

--
Mike.