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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Mod.recipes stuff
Message-ID: <211@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 11:44:45 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  2 11:44:45 1985
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I notice that there is now a mod recipes, with some traffic in it.
However, I cannot see it due to recently-imposed access restrictions on
this machine. I don't know if it contains any for-real recipes yet, or
just discussion about the usage of the group itself. However, though I
also cannot read net.cooks directly, I have been lucky enough to get a
feed of postings to that group provided to me by a generous and
compassionate individual, so I will see net.cooks items. However, I am
posting this not only for myself, but for others on the net who see the
news via other utilities, forwardings, or on non-unix machines.

If any recipe is posted to mod.recipes in an "nroff" or other typesetter
or text-formatter special form, please also post the "plain" or output
form of that recipe to net.cooks. (Eliminate excess blank lines and any
special characters, of course.) That way, EVERYBODY, including those who
don't get the "mod" groups due to USENET propagation problems, or those
who cannot run the formatting program that uses the "mod.recipe" special
format as input, can read the recipes and use them.

It would be a shame if there are recipes posted there, and subsequent
discussion based on them in net.cooks, when some net.cooks readers have
never seen them (or been able to read them without difficulty, since
unprocessed text with interspersed format-control codes is often
terribly hard to read and understand). It would not add much to the net
traffic load if those few recipes are posted twice, in different forms.
I hope that this could be made a standard practice -- perhaps the
moderator could process any recipes that come in to mod.recipes without
having first appeared on net.cooks, and produce a simple output form and
run postnews on it to send it to net.cooks, as a matter of standard
practice.

Regards,
Will Martin

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