hsu@deccra.DEC (Sam Hsu) (11/03/85)
Here is a vote in favor. I'm more interested in recipes than random discussions. also, is there a net.cooks.wanted? if people could post recipe requests there, then net.cooks may not be so full of them.
6243tes@whuts.UUCP (STERKEL) (11/05/85)
Here is a vote in favor. I'm more interested in recipes than random discussions. (Incidently, while the use of mod. vs. net. concerns me, I must concede the vast superiority of mod. content over any equivalently titled net. group. DOWN with net.flame.
steven@ucla-cs.UUCP (11/13/85)
*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** I don't know who these people are that put themselves in charge of deciding what are the proper newsgroups (nor do I particularly care, though it is pretty irksome), but I would like to express to them my support of establishing a mod.recipes newsgroups. Cheers, Steve
chabot@miles.DEC (11/13/85)
> Not again -- where is the demonstrated volume of postings, I haven't seen > a single recipie on the network (if I'm looking in the wrong places > then sorry and could you please re-direct me to the news groups > that contain said postings). > > Most recipies are available via your local bookshop, unless we are actually > talking about creat(e)ing new recipies then this must be an un-needed > load on the system. Actually, you won't find a single "recipie" on the net, because there aren't any such beasts. On the other hand, net.cooks often has recipes (and last week there was a recipe for "mealy" chili posted to net.cooks and net.misc). *Many* recipes are available in bookstores. However, many books go out of print and are no longer available in bookstores--but somebody on the net might have one that has the recipe for eccles cakes like my grandmother made. Also, sometimes recipes in books are created by the author but never tried, and some contain some amazing typos (like the edition of _The_Joy_of_Cooking_ which accidentally put "lbs" instead of "sticks" of butter in a brownie recipe)(and if such a mistake was posted, at least I'd have recourse to asking if there wasn't a mistake). I don't imagine that folks will start submitting their entire library for inclusion in mod.recipe, :-) so any load created by this group would probably be small, and it would be a neat way to organize recipe requests and offerings. I think it's a good idea and I'd read the group. But let's spell the name correctly. L S Chabot ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot