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Default rec.food.historic what happened to it?

On Sun 10 Aug 2008 11:06:57p, Martin S told us...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>
>> On Sun 10 Aug 2008 10:42:10p, Martin S told us...
>>
>>> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>>>
>>>> Martin S wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> That was a pretty active group last time i looked (many, many years
>>>>> ago) but nowadays seems abandoned. Anyone knows if there is
>>>>> something similar somewhere else?
>>>>
>>>> I can only provide this datapoint: I checked it last year and it was
>>>> dead then. So it's not something that just happened.
>>>
>>> That's too bad
>>> Well, for what it's worth, and if there is no other place for this
>>> subject there is a forum on my site (www.theoldecookerybook.com). I
>>> was hoping though that the fairly large community (back then anyway)
>>> simply had migrated to a web forum somewhere that someone knows about.
>>>
>>> Still hoping someone knows where....

>>
>> rec.food.historic shows 1170 posts on the newsgroups supported by Cox.
>> The last post was dated June 14, 2008.

>
> And how much of that is usenet spam?
> What is the last message? just checking if my newsserver is ok because

95%
> of recent posts is spam on my server.
>


I only noticed a handful of SPAM posts. Most posts are from long time
posters with names I recognize.

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