On Wednesday, November 29, 2017 at 8:17:47 PM UTC-10, 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
>
> Charters:
>
> rec.food.cooking.misc (unmoderated) What rfc used to be and should
> be. For general cooking discussion. This newsgroup will replace
> rec.food.cooking.
>
> rec.food.cooking.cookware (unmoderated) Bread machines, microwaves,
> crockpots, knives, cutting boards, glass-top stoves, barbecues, cast
> iron, woks, Calphalon, aluminum, dehydrators, pasta makers, rice
> cookers, etc.
>
> rec.food.cooking.recipes (unmoderated) Recipes and requests. Before
> you say that this is redundant with rec.food.recipes, from moderating
> rec.food.recipes, I've discovered that crossposting between
> rec.food.cooking and rec.food.recipes is virtually non-existent.
> Recipe management software discussion should go in here as well.
>
> rec.food.cooking.books (unmoderated) Cookbooks, cookbook authors, tv
> shows.
>
> rec.food.cooking.discuss (unmoderated) For all the spam and tripe
> that currently plagues the group. For flames, rumors, controversial
> topics (such as food poisoning), the $250 cookie, and those threads
> that bear marginal relevance that seem to go on forever like, "What
> did you have for dinner last night?" "What is your favorite fast
> food restaurant?" "What is your least favorite fast food
> restaurant?" Etc, etc.
>
> Discussion will run for a minimum of 21 days. The newsgroups in this
> proposal are subject to change, and if major changes are necessary,
> the discussion period may be extended an additional 7 days.
>
> A Call for Votes (CFV) will be posted after the end of the discussion
> period. The vote will be run by a neutral third party.
>
> This RFD attempts to fully comply with Usenet newsgroup creation
> guidelines set in "How to Create a New Usenet Newsgroup". Please
> refer to this document if you have questions about the process.

Thank God for Google Groups, eh?