On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:19:02 -0800, Glutton > wrote:

>On 2015-02-20 23:11:48 +0000, notbob said:
>
>> Seems like the few remaining regulars are no longer interested in
>> cooking.
>
>What I think is wrong with rfc is that all the substantive exchanges
>seem to come buried in topics with wholly misleading names.
>"Yesterday's Spaghetti" has a discussion of growing your own herbs,
>which herbs shouldn't never be used in spaghetti (you idiot), and off
>to other pastas, other idiots, mechancially de-seeding olives and
>finishing with competing olive tapenade recipes.
>
>Similarly there may be great discussions inside "Squash Biscuit", "OT:
>Walmart" or "Julie Sux". Even higher likelihood it is a spat between
>any number of combatants sounding curiously similar to the last 12
>spats among them.
>
>So, as a culinary metaphor, the problem is like being forced to eat the
>entire chicken, bones and wings and head, if you want to get to the
>good part.
>
>Damn you Usenet! Damn you!

No you are not forced to read any post that you don't want or any
poster that you don't like. Use a program that lets you ignore any
poster or topic you do not want to read. Out of the 3 that you
mentioned, I only saw 1, and only read part of it.

Makes life on rfc much nicer. On the other hand, you don't have to
read rfc.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)