On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:37:20 GMT, "Woodsrunner"
> wrote:

>Does anyone know of a newsgroup that focuses on home curing and smoking
>meats?
>
alt.food barbecue is a good resource for this.

See their FAQ to start with (from their monthly posting):

>You can get a copy of the latest BBQ List FAQ
>in one of the following ways:
>
>1) Vince Vielhaber has set up an email autoresponder.
>
> Send email to:
>
> and you'll get the ascii text version, zipped up, by return
> email.
>
> Send mail to:
>
> and you'll get the ascii text version in a self extracting zip file
> by return email.
>
>
> and you'll get a straight ascii version, not zipped.
>
>
> and you will get the MS Word 6.0 version in a self-extracting zip file
> by return mail.
>
> Leave the subject and message body blank.
>
>2) You can also get the BBQ List FAQ by visiting Vince's Web site:
>
> http://www.eaglequest.com/~bbq/
>
> You can download several different formats of the FAQ here.
>
> You can also view the FAQ in HTML format he
>
> http://www.eaglequest.com/~bbq/faq
>
>
>3) You can read the FAQ on Dan Gill's Barbecue Survival Guide Web
> page at:
>
> http://members.tripod.com/~DanGill/Survive.HTML
>
>4) Alex Baker has Word 6.0 and Adobe Acrobat versions of the
> FAQ available for downloading.
>
> His Web site is http://www.calweb.com/~ambaker/bbqfaq.html
>
> Or you can get them directly via ftp by:
>
> ftp://ftp.calweb.com/users/a/ambaker/faq-word.zip
> ftp://ftp.calweb.com/users/a/ambaker/faq-10.doc
> ftp://ftp.calweb.com/users/a/ambaker/faq-acro.pdf
>
> Alex also has a link to download the Adobe Acrobat viewer.
> The Acrobat version of the FAQ has internal links from the
> Table of Contents to the respective sections in the document.
>
>For those of you who do not have MS Word 6.0 or 7.0 or Word 97 who wish to read
>the FAQ in Word format, you can download the MS Word Viewer from Microsoft for
>free. The Word viewer will allow you to view MS Word documents and print
>them, but not edit them or create new documents.
>
>Here's how to get it:
>
>Set your Web browser to:
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/msword/internet/viewer/
>
>and select the version for the Windows operating system you have:
>
>The 97 version for Win95 and the 16-bit version for Win3.1x
>
>Bill

HTH,
Happy trails,
Gary (net.yogi.bear)
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