Also, the sheer volume of traffic on some of these groups had become hard to wade through. Add this to the fact that the alt. URP is a much smaller and much friendlier group. People who are new to paganism, who are looking for information or just new friends to chat to, or are just generally interested, are welcome to join us. Come on in and introduce yourself, leave some chocolate on the table over there.
Chocolate is very popular, as are sherbet lemons.
If you want to know more about this and the people responsible for this madness, go see the Rogues' Gallery for some idea of who we are. There are people from many different paths, hedgewitches, Druidic types, Wiccans, and plenty of self-defined pagans. It's also very true that we don't just talk about paganism. Chemists don't just talk about chemistry and builders don't spend all their free time talking about bricks. If we did confine ourselves to only talking about paganism, things would probably be a trifle dull.