In article >,
ffuca > wrote:

> The wife had a good point, why call it rec.food.cooking when 90% of the posts
> are OT and nothing whatsoever to do with food. Maybe rec.bitch.session would
> be more apropos. It definately needs to be cleaned up.

Back in the heyday of newsgroups, people congregated around newsgroups
of a theme that interested them, and a sense of community formed. And
when friends get together, the subjects seems to drift in a myriad of
directions. The practice of put OT in an off topic from the theme post
became proper nettiquette as a courtesy to all, but the reason for
posting an off topic post in a forum you have been a long timer in is
that you want to hear/read commentary from those you consider friends,
but only see here.

Got a problem with that? Go form your own yahoo mail list group and
moderate it and dictate what can be said. Good luck with it.


ObFood: Now to get back to making my 4 gallon batch of spaghetti and
meatballs.

jt