On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:44:29 -0500, in rec.food.cooking you wrote:

> In article >,
> Michel Boucher > wrote:
>> But as this is an unmoderated newsgroup, you come here knowing full well
>> what you're getting yourself into.
>
> What I got myself into 12 years ago was a topical newsgroup about
> cooking.
>
>>There is no sense complaining about thread degeneration (which is where
>>most of the OT stuff comes in) if it can't be corrected by appeals to
>>"topic".
>
> I understand thread drift and I don't think that's where "most of the OT
> stuff comes in."

Where does it come from then? I've been reading this group for about 2
months now and the majority of the discussions are either off topic or
outright troll posts.