On Sun 10 Aug 2008 11:46:31p, Blinky the Shark told us...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>
>> On Sun 10 Aug 2008 11:13:21p, Blinky the Shark told us...
>>
>>> Martin S wrote:
>>>
>>>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun 10 Aug 2008 10:42:10p, Martin S told us...
>>>>>
>>>>>> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Martin S wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> That was a pretty active group last time i looked (many, many
>>>>>>>> years ago) but nowadays seems abandoned. Anyone knows if there is
>>>>>>>> something similar somewhere else?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I can only provide this datapoint: I checked it last year and it
>>>>>>> was dead then. So it's not something that just happened.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's too bad
>>>>>> Well, for what it's worth, and if there is no other place for this
>>>>>> subject there is a forum on my site (www.theoldecookerybook.com). I
>>>>>> was hoping though that the fairly large community (back then
>>>>>> anyway) simply had migrated to a web forum somewhere that someone
>>>>>> knows about.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Still hoping someone knows where....
>>>>>
>>>>> rec.food.historic shows 1170 posts on the newsgroups supported by
>>>>> Cox. The last post was dated June 14, 2008.
>>>>
>>>> And how much of that is usenet spam?
>>>
>>> And how far back is that retention that has those eleven hundred
>>> posts?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Without going back and checking exactly, the date range is from
>> sometime in 2005 through June, 2008.
>
> So perhaps a post a day, average. That reads: dead. It was probably
> spam or kookery, too.
>
>

Okay, dead. However, most did not look like spam or kookey.

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