In article >,
Morebella Morbid > wrote:

> On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:37:12 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
> > wrote:

> >rec.food.recipes. It doesn't get much activity, but there were two
> >posts last Monday.
>
> that is it. Why no activity? Whe I used to be in newsgroups long ago,
> it was very active. What happened? Do you know?
>
> TY for your reply.

My theory is that it has been supplanted by all the web recipe sites.
Some of them have many thousands of crappy recipes, and are easily
searchable. I once did a search for recipes using the words "meatloaf"
and "fruit". Got quite a few, some that looked interesting.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA