Martin S wrote:

> 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?

And how far back is that retention that has those eleven hundred posts?


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