🚀 go-pugleaf

Ba.food added back in.  Followups set to ba.config, only.  Context left
in, although I urge people to read the original in ba.config.

In article <Pine.GSO.4.21.0007261353030.12687-100000@elaine14.Stanford.EDU>,
Cary Steven Howie  <chowie@stanford.edu> wrote:
>Dave hisses:
>
>> I will vote NO on this when there is a call for votes, if it gets
>> that far.
>
>Aahz steps on him:
>
>> You seem to have confused ba.* with the Big-8.  There is no CFV here.
>> The ba.* czar creates and removes groups by fiat, though almost always
>> with consensus from interested parties.  
>
>Meanwhile, Charlotte adds:
>
>> I like the give and take in ba.food.  Mind you, I think any
>> "spinoff" would probably be interesting, but at the end of the day I'm
>> wondering if this is a split that needs to happen.       
>
>Now, if *everyone's* response were as balanced as Charlotte's, or even
>Chester's, I'd probably let this lie, but there's a notably humorless
>quality to most of the posts on this issue so far. Dave seems to be
>talking about the Republican VP nomination, while Aahz shakes his
>cyber-bureaucrat thing.

In ba.config?  I'm shocked, SHOCKED, I tell ya!

>Which is precisely why a new group like this ain't such a bad idea. 

*Do* let me know just how *you* plan to keep boring people and boring
posts out of the new group.  I didn't hear anything about a moderated
group, myself.  

The more I see on this, the more I am "agginit".  Now ba.in-n-out or
ba.krispy-kreme or ba.my.hometown.pizza.is.better I might still go
for.  

Am I correct in assuming that most of the folks who are ba.food regulars
and have expressed interest in a new group would be just as happy to keep
nattering away in ba.food?  

Note to Meg's emailers:  if you haven't spoken up and made your own cases,
this is the time to do so.  It has been my observation that threads about
*n-n-**t b*rg*rs, b*g*ls, h*m*t*wn p*zz*, and now kr*spy kr*m* have been
the ones that "growed like Topsy" for the most part, the current
cocktail-party-in-progress notwithstanding.

I don't think ba.food is particularly high volume (I read several groups
that get 100-300 posts daily, with the help of my trusty newsreader, which
sorts by subject lines and will zap the ones I don't want to read). 

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