Dan Goodman wrote:
> Jean B. wrote:
>
>> wrote:
>>> On Feb 15, 12:12 pm, "Jean B." > wrote:
>>>> James Silverton wrote:
>>>>> I don't regularly visit recipe web sites unless they come up in
>>>>> a search for a particular recipe. I used to read
>>>>> rec.food.recipes but you can't make comments there and a lot of
>>>>> the posters think they are performing a public service by
>>>>> indiscriminate dumping recipes they have not tried personally.
>>>> r.f.r (yes, not a site, but...) has been rather moribund lately.
>>>> I wonder when the transition will be taking place?
>>> Usenet is moribund.
>> You mean like this group? I hadn't noticed.
>
> This group, no. But the people who used to post on alt.recovery about
> Twelve Step Groups Are Evil (too Christian, not Christian enough -- one
> managed both those in one post) aren't around any longer; and almost
> nobody else is.
>
> fr.rec.cuisine used to get a lot of posts, but now gets rather few.

I'm on several very busy newsgroups, and a few that seem to be either
dead or dying. It has been that way since I got here in 1998. If Usenet
is dying, it's taking its sweet time about it.

Serene

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