On Mar 7, 3:47*pm, "Kent" > wrote:
> "Hell Toupee" > wrote in message
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> > 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.
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> >>> Proposal: rec.food.cooking be split into 5 unmoderated groups:
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> >>> rec.food.cooking.misc rec.food.cooking.cookware rec.food.cooking.recipes
> >>> rec.food.cooking.media rec.food.cooking.discuss
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> >> 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.
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> > 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.
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> Moderated or filtered newsgroups have failed almost always. An example is
> alt.food.recipes.
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> Kent
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It's ridiculous and a waste of time to try and reorganize r.f.c.
There is no more off-topic spam crap now than there was 5 years ago.
Get over it. Don't read it. Just pick the threads relating to food,
if you're going to be picky.

N.