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Default rec.food.historic what happened to it?

On Sun 10 Aug 2008 11:13:21p, Blinky the Shark told us...

> Martin S wrote:
>
>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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>>> 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?
>
>


Without going back and checking exactly, the date range is from sometime in
2005 through June, 2008.

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