On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:51:09 -0800, Serene Vannoy wrote:

> 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

it's always annoying when someone lingers on their deathbed for months or
years. get on with it, already!

your pal,
blake