On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:52:40 -0500, Nancy Young wrote:

> On 1/17/2014 8:19 AM, ChattyCathy wrote:
>> On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:57:15 -0400, lucretiaborgia wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Would you know what became of rec.recipes ? Think that was the addy -
>>> it suddenly seemed to die a death - it was moderated and I believe the
>>> moderator changed, perhaps that influenced it.
>>
>> I seem to recall a NG called rec.food.recipes, maybe that's the one
>> you're thinking about? Haven't looked at that NG in... years. But the
>> last time I did, there was nothing much happening, just a few spam
>> posts (handbags/shoes for sale, etc.)
>>
>> My guess is that the moderator(s) just gave up on it.
>
> The way I remember it, people were still interested in the newsgroup but
> the moderator disappeared, not asking if anyone else wanted to take on
> the task. Strange.
>
I think you're right! I also vaguely remember that Omelet offered to take
over from Ms Hill as a moderator at some point - to your knowledge did
anything ever come out of that?

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Chatty Cathy