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From: krossen@bbncca.ARPA (Ken Rossen)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Re: mod.recipies (where they are NOW!)
Message-ID: <1618@bbncca.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 20-Nov-85 16:31:45 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 20 16:31:45 1985
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References: <2103@reed.UUCP> <765@dcl-cs.UUCP> <5835@tekecs.UUCP> <2604@mnetor.UUCP> <887@terak.UUCP>
Reply-To: krossen@bbnccp.arpa (Ken Rossen)
Organization: A knife, a fork, a bottle, and a cork.
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Summary: Leave well enough alone.

In article <887@terak.UUCP> suze@terak.UUCP (Suzanne Barnett) writes:
>     The discussion of a new group arose in net.cooks to allow a net
>     cookbook to be created. 

Yes.  I am a great fan of net.cooks and I remember this.  I thought it was
a silly idea then, and what with non-technical newsgroups under closer
scrutiny every day by them that pays the bills, I think it's an even
sillier idea.

You're telling me you can't get a "net cookbook" out of what already exists
in net.cooks?  I can, and do.  I save the recipes I want, and I print them
and put them in a binder.  Why is this so hard?

Yes, I know.  The idea was to keep them in nroff source form.  This perk
hardly justfifies an increase in net traffic.  People WILL double-post
their recipes to net.cooks and net.recipes.

>     A new group should be created that is a "subgroup" of net.cooks, such
>     as "mod.cooks.recipes." I say mod. rather than net. since a volunteer
>     has stepped forward to moderate it and edit any posted recipes as
>     needed to format them for a net cookbook.

I remember this too, and I say, let him save all recipes posted to
net.cooks and accept recipes by mail.  He can format them and maintain a
net cookbook on his machine, and people who want a copy can send him mail.
He can periodically post a BRIEF announcement of same in net.cooks.  But I
seriously doubt the cost of sending mod.recipes around the world is
justified by the number of people who feel the need to have their recipes
formatted "just so," especially when additional USENET traffic, particularly
non-technical traffic, is at such a premium.

net.recipes is a BAD idea.  mod.recipes is also a bad idea.  We don't need
increased traffic that supplies no additional information to what exists.
So a net.cooks reader votes NO to net.recipes in any form.
-- 
Ken Rossen	...!{decvax,ihnp4,ima,linus,harvard,seismo}!bbncca!krossen
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