Exactly. Even before the internet was the internet, and you had to get a letter from your government contract officer to get an account, there explicit off-topic discussion groups (including recipes) to reduce clutter and thread drift from the serious ones. Nobody then or now forced anybody to look at them, or encounter them while scanning a serious group.
Which is why c.captain’s complaining does not belong in this thread and should be moved by a moderator to scuttlebutt category, where it can be ignored by those who wish to limit their time here.
Cheers,
Earl