"Victor Sack" > wrote in message
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> augie > wrote:
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> You are very much mistaken here - every difference matters, if only a
> bit, and when those differences add up, the whole newsgroup changes
> quite considerably.
>
> Victor

sorry to get all philosophical, but isn't that what life (& newsgroups) is
all about? - change. everything changes. we can't keep things how they are
forever. change happens.

it seems like there is only a small percentage of australian posters on
rec.food.cooking compared to other countries. i know you say that makes a
difference. but what if aus.food was denied and these australian posters
still decided all to unsubscribe or just lurk? the flavour of the newsgroup
would still change. it's just not possible to control other people's
behaviour like that.

i know from my own unrelated newsgroup (aus.family) that many of the posters
that would come to aus.food would be from aus.family. we have been
interested in this for ages & would love a separate newsgroup for talking
about food rather than on aus.family which is technically about parenting.

and this is not the only place that people wanting aus.food come from. there
are many people in australian newsgroups that have never, ever visited
rec.food.cooking which want aus.food. are you suggesting that these people
all have no right to have a newsgroup they want?

i think this extends beyond the boundaries of changing one newsgroup
slightly. it is what a sizeable (to our little country, anyway) number of
people would like to see happen. (i know you keep asking for statistics, but
i have no idea on how to do that! but you could google aus.family to see how
many food related posts there are!)

i hope you still find rec.food.cooking an enjoyable place to go, whether
aus.food happens or not.

--
elizabeth (in australia)
DS 20th august 2002
#2 due 14th october 2005 (currently: 35 weeks)

"Worry is like a rocking chair--it gives you something to do but it doesn't
get you anywhere." -- Anonymous