Ward Abbott wrote:

>Can anyone explain HOW and WHY a civil forum like rec.food.cooking has
>become vulgar, obscene, repulsive, demented, caustic, trivial, biased,
>nit witty, irrelevant, boring, demented, gutrenching without out any
>contributor's personal validation and approval?
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You know, I was just thinking last night that the dreaded Ch*ng seems to
have disappeared, and then I get up this morning to all this offensive
ratbaggery.

I suppose it comes in waves, perhaps there's a full moon coming up.
Don't feed them and they'll bugger off eventually.

Christine