The real Nick Maclaren wrote
I go away for 10 days, and there are 11,000 messages waiting in
uk.rec.gardening. Does this say something about UK gardeners
(and/or Pete the Troll)?


Not seen it here Nick. Just the on topic posts as usual, well, except for
Pete's posts under your name. :-)
Perhaps you need a different news server.

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Regards
Bob

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