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From: reid@glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: (mod.recipe things)
Message-ID: <2593@glacier.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 22-Dec-85 19:15:42 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 22 19:15:42 1985
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Reply-To: reid@glacier.UUCP (Brian Reid)
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In article <948@terak.UUCP> suze@terak.UUCP (Suzanne Barnett) writes:

>	... I would like to see recipes come through a bit
>faster on mod.recipes.

If by "faster" you mean you would like to have your own recipe appear
sooner, the best way to ensure its rapid dispatch is for you to put the
troff commands in yourself. Even if you get them wrong, I can test it and
fix it and send it out with a few minutes' work. Like everybody else on
USENET, I have a full-time job, and the spare time to edit mod.recipes comes
intermittently. If I have to put the troff commands in for you, it takes
enough time that I can't get to it immediately.

If by "faster" you mean you would like to have more recipes per week, then
let me entreat everyone to submit more recipes. There have been only 5
unsolicited submissions to mod.recipes so far (by "unsolicited" I mean that
somebody send in a recipe without me specifically asking for it). I've been
beating the bushes getting my friends to send in recipes, but sooner or
later those will run out.

One thing I have been thinking about is to increase the rate of flow of
recipes, but to fill in the gaps with my own recipes. I have enough to last
several years. I really don't want mod.recipes to turn into my own little
forum--it's supposed to be everybody's forum--but if people want more
recipes, and if they don't submit more recipes, and if they don't mind
getting bundles of my recipes, then I could set things up so that each
weekend when the weekly recipe posting is made, if there aren't enough
submitted recipes to fill the weekly quota then the posting software will
dig into my archives and post stuff from there.

What does anybody think?

Brian
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	Brian Reid	decwrl!glacier!reid
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