Victor Sack wrote:

> It is very obvious that creating aus.food is of no real importance to
> you.

Not obvious to me.

Perhaps it would be better to delegate the task of drumming up
> support to someone who takes it seriously?

> Splitting a newsgroup is a
> serious matter, in case you are unaware, particularly where rfc is
> concerned. A lot of ill-will has been generated by previous attempts
> to split it and this is still occasionally noticeable even today.

I don't see it as a split. It's a proposal for something equivalent to
the uk.* food newsgroups, fr.rec.cuisine, and various other national
food newsgroups. There are also a bunch of US-local *.food and *eats
groups, which I don't consider to be splits of either this newsgroup
nor restaurant newsgroups.

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