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From: wbt@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: rec.food.recipes
Message-ID: <13657@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 1 Feb 90 16:37:00 GMT
References: <2359@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Reply-To: wbt@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker,00440,cb,1D211,6148604019)
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In article <2359@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes:
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>I am also in favor of the group. But the issues above suggest a moderated
>newsgroup, just for the purpose of filtering out non-recipes and setting
>the follow-up field to rec.food.cooking. This can be handled almost
>automatically (one keystroke per message). 

Even easier than that.

>Another issue that comes up is the format of the recipes. Alt.gourmand had
>a consistent format, so that you can print a nice cookbook. What about the
>new group?

If we decide to moderate the group, it may even be possible to find a
moderator willing to maintain an archive, as (I think) was done with
alt.gourmand.  

Also, the moderator could use a consistent set of keywords; e.g.,
"vegetarian, low-salt, Chinese, salad". This would aid in menu planning 
and such.

I don't think moderation is *necessary*, but I certainly can't see any way
it would hurt (except that postings would be delayed about a day... big
deal.)   I believe it would improve the group, overall.

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