The message
from "Mike" contains these words:

but one
does tire of the same questions being asked year after year after year!

Is it beyond your thought that this person might even be a newbie and I
might never have posted here before?

Fine, in theory, but Rosie *has* posted here before asking this question!

Just because you are one of the 'Old Hands' full of experience and know all
the answers through years and years of experience, please remember, that
once upon a time, even YOU did not know all the answers. (When you had your
first baby, you knew just what to do? How to feed it and bathe it? And if
you are a driver, were you born with a driving licence and all the
experience of road craft?)

Yes, I knew all about how to look after babies when my first child was born.
Being the oldest of a family of seven does have advantages....but WTH does
this have to do with gardening?

I think I had better advise you, because you are obviously not aware of the
fact, that at about this time next year, April 'ish' 2005, a complete set of
newbies will 'bombard' this newsgroup with exactly the same questions that
you tire of so much. Might I therefore respectfully suggest that you log out
now, so that these tiresome newbies, who do not know these things, do not
annoy you any more?

Perhaps the next lot of newbies will have the sense to read the FAQs, and do
a Google search? I live in hope!

Or perhaps we will make a posting on the newsgroup every week as follows. In
the subject line "SORRY, BUT A QUESTION FROM A NEWBIE" Please note that this
is a newsgroup full of very experienced people, of which some do not have
the patience to keep on answering questions from newbies. If you want to ask
a simple question, just like the experienced ones on here did at the
beginning, and so they are not bored to tears, please make a prominent
posting such as the above in the subject.
Thank you.

Would that satisfy you?
I doubt it :-((

I'm not sure what, exactly, your bloody problem is, Mike, but LIVE WITH
IT, and
STAY OUT OF MY FACE!!

--
AnneJ