blake murphy wrote:

> On Sun, 17 May 2009 08:52:44 -0400, jmcquown wrote:
>
> > "Omelet" > wrote in message
> > news
> >> In article >,
> >> "jmcquown" > wrote:
> >>
> >>> "Hugh" > wrote in message
> >>> ...
> >>> >
> >>> > "GW" > wrote in message
> >>> > ...
> >>> >> Subject says it all. Where did it go?
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> > Rec.food.recipes is a moderated newsgroup. The moderator retired. No
> >>> > one
> >>> > has emerged who wants to take that role. As a moderated NG messages
are
> >>> > subject to a moderator's approval. There isn't a moderator and
hence,
> >>> > there are no posted messages. This newsgroup is non moderated, and
> >>> > anything goes, as we all know. The fraction of good solid posts
about
> >>> > cooking has become quite small, and overwhelmed by spams and flames.
I
> >>> > wish there is a way to balance the extremes of moderated and
> >>> > non-moderated
> >>> > groups into something that would work. Is there a way we can keep
the
> >>> > flaming foodies and dump the watch sellers?
> >>> >
> >>> > Hugh
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> Killfile googlemail and gmail and you won't see the spammers.
> >>>
> >>> Jill
> >>
> >> If you killfile gmail, you will lose a lot of good posters too. Many of
> >> us use gmail. :-(
> >> --
> >> Peace! Om
> >>
> >
> > Ah, the blessings of Vista I get to pick and choose, sweetie. I see
> > your posts. I don't see the ones I don't want to. Other "real"
newsreaders
> > allow you to write strings to block things. Blinky was very good at
> > informing people about that but alas, we lost Blinky.
> >
> > Jill
>
> but the usenet improvement project lives on:
>
> <http://improve-usenet.org/filters_bg.html>


Unfortunately the Jill Improvement Project is dead in the water...

:-(


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Best
Greg