"l, not -l" > wrote in message
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>
> On 6-Jun-2010, "Dimitri" > 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.
>>
>>
>> IMHO it was just too dry - no banter, no Sheldon, no self proclaimed
>> gifts
>>
>> to the kitchen.
>>
>> Dimitri
>
> Another reason it doesn't get much traffic, IMO, is the requests
> degenerated
> to mostly copycat request. "Anyone have a recipe for (insert
> appetizer/main-dish/dessert) from (insert restaurant name)?" "I'm
> looking
> for a (whatever) muffin recipe that tastes just like Otis Spunkemeyer" ad
> nauseum.

And anything that wasn't a copy-cat recipe was copied from one of the
million recipe sites that copy each other's content over and over again.
There was a chicken recipe that had the same spelling mistake on 50 sites
and someone would post it on R.F.R. about every 6 months. I stopped
following it after a year or so.

Jon