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Posted to rec.food.cooking
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RFD - Reorganization of the rec.food.cooking Usenet Hierarchy
"Terry Coombs" > wrote in message
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> On 11/30/2017 12:18 AM, Usenet Support Personnel wrote:
>> This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the reorganization
>> of the unmoderated newsgroup, rec.food.cooking.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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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.books
>> rec.food.cooking.discuss
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> IMO this will only give the trolls four more places to harass and
> crosspost their trash . If you think it's bad here , check out
> rec.crafts.metalworking or alt.survival . At least here we know pretty
> much who is trolling - they don't seem to morph their info to avoid
> killfiles - and it's pretty easy to filter them .
Agree.
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