The message
from "Phil L" contains these words:

....if
everyone just posted wherever and however they felt like, threads would be
unreadable.

This group has survived many failed attempts to make it
unreadable.Tactics used include the personal targetting of respected
longterm gardening contributors with dishonest attempts to discredit
them in various ways; attempts to disrupt threads and confuse newbies to
usenet; and the posting of meaningless random-junk messages. Btw, what a
lot of random-junk messages appear in your posting history.

Anyone for a game of snap?

Janet.