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From: [e-mail] (Stephanie da Silva)
Subject: Charter
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 94 18:02:35 CST

Last updated 17 March 1994

What is rec.food.recipes?
------------------------
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.

Four comoderators have recently joined up to help me with the newsgroup.
Ken Herron ([e-mail]), Russ Zaccari ([e-mail])
and Marianna Vayntrub ([e-mail]) are helping with approving
messages.  Thomas Fenske ([e-mail]) acts as my advisor and
assists with answering questions from users.  If you don't know who I am,
I'm Stephanie da Silva ([e-mail]).

I have 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.

Related newsgroups:  Besides rec.food.cooking, you might be interested
in checking out rec.food.veg.cooking, a moderated newsgroup for the
discussion of vegetarian cooking and recipes.

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?
-------------------------------------
The simplest way is to post like you would for any unmoderated group
(by using Pnews or whatever command your system uses for posting news).
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 cooks donating their time and effort to the
net.  No one gets paid for doing this.  Many of them do not appreciate
being taken for granted, and are annoyed by 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.  Yet, I wouldn't find the same request for pumpkin pie
from a Kiwi to be unreasonable at all.

If you have an administrative notice you'd like to post (information
about archives, mailing lists, etc.) please clear it with me before
submitting.

Amy Gale ([e-mail]) posts a FAQ to this group once a month
on the 10th of each month.  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.  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.  I may have posted it and it didn't propogate back to your site.
Or I may not have even received it!  You might be surprised at how much
recipes related email bounces or gets eaten.  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.  Check
the logfile.  The logfile is a list of headers of all articles that have
been posted within the past month and is an easy way to check to see if
your article made it out.

The one month rule only apples to requests!  Even though a recipe has been
requested, it doesn't necessarily follow that someone responded to the
request or that there are even any recipes for that particular request in
the archives.  All it means was that specific recipe was requested within
the previous month.  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 month.

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

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 veggie.


Where are the rec.food.recipes archives?
---------------------------------------
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.newusers.questions.  Comments or
questions about the archives should go to [e-mail].

There is a 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 aka The Usenet Cookbook)

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)

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

(Fatfree archives are also accessible via Gopher at gopher.geod.emr.ca under
 Vegetarian Recipes and via WWW at http://www.geod.emr.ca/index.html).

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)

nic.funet.fi
/pub/culture/recipes/recipes (lots of recipes in compressed format)

suphys.physics.su.oz.au (129.78.129.1)
/mar/cookbook (The Callahans' Cookbook)

ftp.cs.ubc.ca (137.82.8.13)
/pub/local/RECIPES  (The Network Cookbook)

mthvax.cs.miami.edu (129.171.32.5)
/homebrew (Homebrew Digest archives)

ftp.geod.emr.ca
/pub/Vegetarian/Recipes/CADAdmin (vegetarian recipes, CADAdmin site mirror)


Are there any related mailing lists?
-----------------------------------
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, send a message to [e-mail].   To
subscribe to BEEF-L, send a message to [e-mail].  Leave the
subject heading blank, and in the body of the message, type in
"sub [listname]" followed by your name.

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