Wayne Boatwright wrote:

> On Sun 10 Aug 2008 11:13:21p, Blinky the Shark told us...
>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>
> Without going back and checking exactly, the date range is from sometime in
> 2005 through June, 2008.

So perhaps a post a day, average. That reads: dead. It was probably
spam or kookery, too.


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