On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:08:36 GMT, Steve Wertz
<swertz@cluemail.compost> wrote:

>On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:46:12 -0400, Goomba38 wrote:
>
>> I wondered why anyone posts all the off-topic blather here in the first
>> place? Jokes, songs, sports, pets..? I get the impression some here (and
>> Kate is hardly the most guilty) consider this food forum their own
>> private playground and mistakenly think they're a bit wittier or more
>> amusing than they actually are and mistake tolerance for welcome?
>> Perhaps a chat room where they can all talk about anything and
>> everything not appropriate here would supply them with cyber-friends who
>> share an interest in all the topics that don't belong here? I've enjoyed
>> the RFC Chatroom at times and it can certainly provide an outlet for
>> these off-topic subjects....?

>
That's what rec .food .recipes is for Steve. It's all recipes and no
annoying chat so you can be safe that every post is on topic with no
extraneous words wasted.
>
>FWIW, I would probably spend some time in a new RFCC when time
>permits.
>
>The answer is newsgroup called rec.food.cooking.chat.
>
It would be easier for you and anyone else who agrees with you to
migrate over to alt .food .cooking because it's pretty much dead at
this point. I guarantee that you and goomba will have to moderate it
officially if you want the revived news group to operate by your
rules.

>But I guarantee all the regular OT posters would have genuine
>hissy fits if anybody were to honesty introduce such a proposal.
>It's been tried before and the general consensus is that morons
>must be morons, and would rather hear people whine than do
>something about it.
>
>And even if it were established, those same OT posters would
>still post to RFC in defiance while calling the nay-sayers
>net-nazis.

Pure conjecture! Tapping chin....
Q: Who is really whining?
A: You.
>
>But I'll throw it out there anyway. I dare anybody to prove me
>wrong.

Why reinvent the wheel? There is a direct link to rec.food.cooking
chat (which is in real time) on the unofficial rfc website.
www.penguinpowered.ca (Java link)

You have a choice: Bluster on or move on, bro. You're dead in the
water here.


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