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Subject: What is mod.recipes? (last updated 4 Jan 1987)
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Date: Sat, 28-Feb-87 04:07:48 EST
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Welcome to mod.recipes. This is a "moderated" USENET group, whose purpose is
to distribute the recipes of the USENET Cookbook.

People read through these recipes, save the ones they like and ignore the
ones that they don't like, and then periodically print out a personalized
copy of "The USENET Cookbook".

Everything posted to mod.recipes is put there by the newsgroup moderator,
namely me. I am Brian Reid of DEC Western Research Laboratory in Palo Alto,
California. The moderator of a newsgroup is something like the editor of a
magazine--I don't write much for it, but I must approve everything that goes
out, and I edit the contributions for spelling, grammar, and stylistic
consistency. Sometimes I add some historical information, or some
commentary on the recipe.

The mod.recipes system is almost completely automated. People submit recipes
by mailing them to a certain mailbox. I proofread each recipe and check the
dubious-looking ones to make sure that they are reasonable. I add a "rating"
of each recipe according to how easy or hard it is to make, and how long it
will take. If the recipe was submitted in imperial units (cups and
teaspoons), I add metric equivalents (grams and milliliters); if the recipe
was submitted in metric units, then I add the imperial equivalents.

I also add a copyright notice, copyrighting each recipe for the "USENET
Community Trust", which is a California organization formed for the purpose
of holding that copyright.  When a recipe has been edited, formatted,
converted to metric, proofread, and marked with copyright, then it is placed
in the outgoing queue. Each week, on Thursday night, 5 recipes are posted
from the queue. There is about a 6-week backlog.

Recipes are posted both as cleartext and in troff form. To process them with
troff or nroff you will need special recipe macros; there is also some
"recipe software" that makes handling the recipes easier and more automatic.
This is all available from the decwrl archive server, which is described in
message "2 of 8" of this posting.

Brian Reid
{ucbvax,sun,decvax}!decwrl!reid	or	reid@decwrl.dec.com
DEC Western Research Laboratory