"Hell Toupee" > wrote in message
...
> 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.
>
>
Moderated or filtered newsgroups have failed almost always. An example is
alt.food.recipes.

Kent

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