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On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:47:31 +0200, (Victor Sack)
wrote:

>Personally, I happen to be basically sympathetic to this particular
>proposal and just wish to be persuaded of its merit and of the viability
>of the proposed newsgroup. Some hard statistics on the actual interest
>in the newsgroup, such as that of food-related postings specifically in
>the Australian context on other newsgroups over the recent years would
>be welcome and even necessary, as far as I'm concerned.
>
This would be extraordinarily difficult to do. Most of the posts
relating to food or recipe requests in Australian newsgroups would not
be under headings that would be easily identifiable in Google until
recently (approx the last 5 months) when Ms Leebee started the whole
discussion about whether or not to request an aus.food group.
Generally any group which has a bunch of women posting in it will
inevitably end up with a "what's for dinner?" discussion, and this is
not just just for the usual interest reason but because it has turned
out to be a great way of deflecting trolls.

In alt.mothers, misc.kids.pregnancy, misc.kids and
misc.kids.breastfeeding there are Australian posters and all of these
groups have had recipe posts and recipe requests over the 3-5 years I
have been reading/posting. Going back and looking for these posts
would be time consuming as particularly in alt.mothers topic drift and
cascades are common.

Cheryl