On 11/30/2017 1:18 AM, Usenet Support Personnel wrote:
> This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the reorganization
> of the unmoderated newsgroup, rec.food.cooking.
>
> This RFD is being posted to news.announce.newgroups, news.groups,
> rec.food.cooking, rec.food.drink, rec.food.historic,
> rec.food.recipes, rec.food.sourdough, rec.food.veg and
> rec.food.veg.cooking, with followups set to news.groups. All
> discussion regarding this proposal should take place in news.groups.
>
> Rationale: Rec.food.cooking has been a high-volume newsgroup for
> many years, and the subject of splitting has been brought up with
> a fair amount of regularity. Traditionally, rec.food.cooking had
> been an amazingly civil, calm and flame-free newsgroup, so a split
> never seemed to be justified.
>
> However, in recent years the noise level and number of inappropriate
> posts has skyrocketed, and polite pointers to the FAQs (which usually
> did the trick before) now go ignored or become targets for flames. I
> feel that splitting rec.food.cooking will help bring back the focus
> that it once had.
>
> 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.books
> rec.food.cooking.discuss
>
All Newsgroups have deteriorated, but a split will just destroy what
little is left. I'm not going to hunt through 5 different groups.