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?

Ward,
You are repeating yourself, you used demented twice. Don't fret the
nastiness, it happens in all newsgroups - some more, some less - but all
newsgroups suffer from the same thing.

Ray
Austin, TX
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