[Mike Nolan]

Now you see why I will not have anything to do with yahoo groups! I'd recommend doing the unsubscribe, but I won't guarantee it gets rid of the spam. I've been trying to get off one specific yahoo group (that I never subscribed to!) for years, and there's another one I get email from every now and then that I never joined, either. (In both cases, I believe I was added by the group manager WITHOUT MY CONSENT.)

There's supposed to be an 'unsubscribe from all yahoo groups' option, but I'm not sure it has ever worked.

Sorry to hear about Cindy.

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[Mike Nolan]

Something to think about: I saw some links in some of the 'Old BC Threads' posts that have links to recipes that were on the KAF BC. (For example in the Texas Sheet Cake thread.)

If the recipes being referred to get uploaded here, we may want to change those links at some point. But at least they go to a valid KAF page that talks about the transition rather than generate a 404 (page not found) error.

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[Mike Nolan]

It's easier and faster for me to just move them to the Recipes forum, so I did. Hopefully I got them all.

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[Mike Nolan]

I fixed a few posts that had the attribution in the recipe but not in the title.

[Mike Nolan]

Yup, that's the one!

[Mike Nolan]

It was probably timing out, I had it set to allow editing for something like 10 days, so I set it to a very large number so posts are essentially editable forever.

In some online forums, allowing unlimited editing of posts leads to flame wars, but I don't honestly see that happening here.

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[Mike Nolan]

I just raised the edit limit to a very large number, so if that's what was keeping you from editing the topic title, you should be able to edit it now.

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[Mike Nolan]

If you actually managed to kill chives, you should go in the Gardener's Hall of Fame!

My mother had workers tear down her garage and build a much larger one covering up a large part of her garden, including the chive patch, and a year later they came up again about a foot from the new wall.

If you think there's something wrong with your chives, just get a small pot of them at a nursery and start over in a different part of your garden, in 1-2 years you'll have a thriving colony again.

[Mike Nolan]

If they didn't have 'by xxxx' in the title, they weren't in that list. There are about 40 of mine out there without attribution (which seems pointless if it's your own recipe). One of those is actually BigLakeJudy's molasses cookie recipe; I just corrected the title on that one to be consistent. (I also think that one's now out there twice, with rottiedogs having just uploaded it, too.)

There are a bunch of recipes out there with the attribution in the body, might be tricky to include them in the next list. Most of those appear to have it on line 2 of the body, which I might be able to break out. But if I can do that, it might make more sense to just write a quick program to update the subject header to add the attribution there.

I might not get to that right away, though.

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[Mike Nolan]

I just posted a summary by original uploader on the BC, assuming that information was included in the subject header as 'by xxx'.

[Mike Nolan]

Posting Paddy's recipe would be great! Thanks.

BTW, we're closing in on having 500 recipes posted. That's only around a tenth of the member recipes that were on the KAF site before it shut down, and that doesn't count recipes that went MIA when they updated the site several years ago.

But it's a pretty good selection of recipes. Thanks to everyone who's contributed.

Looking at the Google Analytics data, I'm seeing a slight up-tick in referrals to our site from the search engines.

I'll keep creating blog posts, I think that's another good way to build up the site. I now have 5-6 of them in the works (including a holiday one for December.) Last night I was working on one about knife sharpening, complete with photos using my digital microscope.

[Mike Nolan]

I like barley in soup, but my wife doesn't, so I don't cook with it much, though I do use a little barley flour in some breads. (Right now I can make any kind of bread I want, as I'm the only one eating it.)

[Mike Nolan]

There's a tire dealership near me that posts witticisms on their sign, one they post frequently reads:

Family owned
shut up
no you shut up

Having grown up with 4 brothers and a sister, that sounds like a family to me!

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[Mike Nolan]

We used to use a large wooden box with a hardware cloth bottom. Us kids would walk across the walnuts, sliding our feed to scrape off the green goo. This was not something you did with shoes you wanted to wear anywhere else, though.

[Mike Nolan]

I wonder if the walnuts they're referring to are English walnuts? Black walnuts are very hard and difficult to crack.

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