On 3/7/2011 3:08 PM, rosie wrote:
> On Mar 7, 2:50 pm, Usenet Big > wrote:
>> This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the reorganization of
>> the unmoderated newsgroup, rec.food.cooking.

>>
>> Proposal: rec.food.cooking be split into 5 unmoderated groups:
>>
>> rec.food.cooking.misc rec.food.cooking.cookware rec.food.cooking.recipes
>> rec.food.cooking.media rec.food.cooking.discuss
>
> Sorry, this newsgroup has been this way for years. Sometimes on
> topic, sometimes way offtopic. People come and go, splitting it up
> seems pointless to me.

I've been on a couple other newsgroups that used this rationale to
split/create offshoot groups, and all it accomplished was killing off
traffic on all the groups, with the perpetual exception of spam posts.
The better solution is using a newsreader with good filtering capability.