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Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
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Last updated 10 December 1993

What is rec.food.recipes?
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Rec.food.recipes is a moderated newsgroup.  Being moderated means that
no articles can be posted until approved by the moderator.  This is so
we can provide a noise-free environment for the sharing of recipes.  I
have also discovered there's a lot of confusion between rec.food.recipes
and rec.food.cooking.  Rec.food.cooking is an unmoderated, lively, and
often interesting discussion group.  Rec.food.recipes is for recipes only;
no discussion of any kind is allowed.  Cross-posting between the two
newsgroups (or any other newsgroup) is not recommended.  If you do cross-
post, I reserve the right not to cross-post into any newsgroup that I
feel is inappropriate for the article.

Users new to the net are strongly encouraged to read the informational
postings in the newsgroup news.announce.newusers to familiarize themselves
with Usenet.  These articles in particular should be beneficial:

Welcome to news.announce
Rules for posting to Usenet
A primer for working with the Usenet community
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Usenet
Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions About Usenet
Hints on writing style for Usenet
List of Moderators for Usenet


How does one post to rec.food.recipes?
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The simplest way is to post like you would for any unmoderated group
(by using Pnews or whatever command your system uses for posting
articles).  This isn't the most efficient way, as the news software
then has to forward the article to me.  Depending on how many gateways
the article needs to go through, it can be delayed as much as a week
(there are sites out there that still forward articles to the original
moderator)!

A faster way would be to email directly to this site, by sending to the
newsgroup alias ([e-mail]).


Anything else I need to know about submitting to the newsgroup?
--------------------------------------------------------------
Before you post, stop and ask yourself, "Is this a recipe I can easily
find myself?"  Have you made any sort of effort to look it up on your
own?  Rec.food.recipes is not any sort of commercial recipe service.
It is a group of friendly people donating their time and effort to the
net.  Many of them do not appreciate being taken for granted, and resent
requests that say "I'm making such-n-such dish tonight and I need a recipe
before then" and "Email me as I don't have time to read this group."  It
would probably take less time for you to go to the library and photocopy
a recipe than it would for someone to type in the same recipe and submit
it.  A recipe like paella may sound exotic, but is actually a standard
dish and recipes for it are quite common.  Geography plays into things,
too.  To me, a pumpkin pie recipe is only as far as the grocery store, on
the back of a can of Libby's pumpkin.  However, I wouldn't find the same
request for pumpkin pie from a Kiwi to be unreasonable at all.

Amy Gale ([e-mail]) posts a FAQ to this group once a month
on the 10th.  The FAQ contains a lot of useful information, such as
conversions, metric to US equivalents, explanations of food terms, etc.

Submissions should be no larger than 60K (this is limited by the news
software).

Please minimize commentary in your articles.  Avoid saying things like
"I have more recipes and will post if there's any interest."  Of course
there's interest -- that's why we're all here!  Instead of asking, go
ahead and post!  Don't ask for suggestions, ideas or menus, because in
response, you will receive suggestions, ideas and menus.  You will not
get recipes.  Don't ask for "good" recipes -- do you think the only ones
we post are bad ones?

If you do not see your article, instead of resubmitting, email me asking
about its status.  Just because you haven't seen it, don't assume I didn't
post it (or even received it).  You might be surprised at how much recipes
related email bounces.  The net is not 100% efficient and not all articles
make it to all sites.  I'm not 100% efficient either, and on occasion, I'll
lose a file or delete something by accident.  Ask for a copy of the logfile.
The logfile is a list of headers of all articles that have been posted within
the past 2 months and is an easy way to check to see if your article made it
out.

Please do not email me requests for specific recipes.  I don't have any to
send.

Please do not flame me, for obvious reasons (I junk flames, anyways).

The two month rule only apples to requests!  Just because something was
requested doesn't mean that someone responded to the request or that there
are any recipes in the archives.  All it means was that particular recipe
was requested within the last two months.  There are no recipes in the
logfile!  It only contains the date, subject and the poster's address from
the headers of articles posted to rec.food.recipes within the last two months.

Many readers of rec.food.recipes are vegetarians and would appreciate it
if you tagged any vegetarian recipes as such for their convenience.
Acceptable labels are vegan, ovo, lacto and vegetarian.


Where are the rec.food.recipes archives?
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Use anonymous ftp to this address: ftp.neosoft.com (198.64.6.7).  Log on
as "anonymous" and type your net.address as your password.  The archives
are in the directory /pub/rec.food.recipes.  For more information on using
anonymous ftp, look for the FAQ in news.answers.  Comments or questions
about the archives should go to [e-mail].

The rec.food.recipes World Wide Web archive is up and running.
The URL is:
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/non-local/recipes-archive/recipe-archive.html
Telnetting to info.cern.ch will get you into a public access Web browser.
WWW LineMode Browser (what you get from info.cern.ch):
type:
go http://www.vuw.ac.nz/non-local/recipes-archive/recipe-archive.html
Bug reports to [e-mail].

There is another rec.food.recipes archive site online as a WWW resource,
along with the Usenet Cookbook.
The URL is:
http://indian.jrc.it/cook.html
(use the open URL option under file in Mosaic).
Comments for this archive go to [e-mail].


Sites with previously archived files:

gatekeeper.dec.com (16.1.0.2)
/pub/recipes (alt.gourmand files)

mthvax.cs.miami.edu (129.171.32.5)
/recipes (rec.food.recipes under aem moderatorship)

wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4)
/usenet/rec.food.recipes/recipes (mthvax mirror)

ftp.uu.net
/usenet/rec.food.recipes (another mthvax mirror)

ils.nwu.edu (129.105.100.1)
/pub/sourdough (FAQs and mailing list archives)

wpi.wpi.edu (130.215.24.1)
/recipes (Indian recipes)

geod.emr.ca
/pub/Recipes/FatFree (Fatfree archives)

ftp.halcyon.com
/pub/recipes (Fatfree archives)

ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
/pub/rec/cooking/fatfree (Fatfree archives)

biome.bio.ns.ca
/msm/food (lots of different files on a Gopher server)


Are there any related mailing lists?
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Yes!  The newsgroup itself is distributed to a mailing list reflector.
Any questions about the recipes mailing list should go to Andy Finkenstadt,
([e-mail]).  Users can automatically join the recipes mailing
list by sending to [e-mail] and putting on the first line of
their message 'subscribe recipes'.  They can auto-unsubscribe by sending
'unsubscribe recipes'.  There is an additional channel of the recipes
mailing list, called recipes-digest.  Members can switch from one to the
other by simply mailing to [e-mail] these three lines:

unsubscribe recipes
subscribe recipes-digest
end

EAT-L (foodlore/recipe exchange list) can be subscribed to by mailing to:
[e-mail]
send a message that says: sub EAT-L <your_real_name>

You may be interested in the mailing list FATFREE.  To subscribe, send
email to: [e-mail]
subject: add

The FOODWINE list address to subscribe is [e-mail].

J-FOOD-L is a Japanese food & culture discussion list.  Their list server
is [e-mail], and you send the usual message:
SUB J-FOOD-L Your Name

The topics for the VEGGIE list are any aspect of vegetarianism, vegetarian
life style, or indeed anything relevant to vegetarians.
If you wish to join, please send mail to [e-mail].

To subscribe to BEER-L@UA1VM, send a message to [e-mail].
To subscribe to BEEF-L@WSUVM1, send a message to [e-mail].
Leave the subject heading blank, and in the body of the message, type in
"sub beer-l" followed by your name.

If anyone knows of any other food-related mailing lists, I would appreciate
hearing about them.