JennyC wrote:
"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message
...
In article , Janet
Baraclough writes

You have been misled by gardenbanter. This is not an in-house
service-on-demand advice bureau, so banging on the desk and
bawling
won't get you far. You are reading a usenet discussion group
which
has nothing to do with gardenbanter. Gardenbanter is something
akin
to a streetcorner newspaper vendor pretending to be the publisher
of the newspapers he arranged on his stall.

Janet.

AND what's more, Garden Answers had the cheek to mention it as a
great site on the Internet for gardening advice, when in actual
fact
it lifts our discussions clean out of their roots and transplants
the as their own cuttings on their web site.
Damn cheek.....
Janet

Maybe we should all add a bit to our sig..........

"This post is coming to you via Uk.Rec.Gardening and is NOT a part
of
gardenbanter. Please join a proper newsgroup!"

Or words to that effect:~)
If we ALL did it then it would be on public display
Jenny

I don't actually know what Mary was desk-banging about, as she got
quite a few replies. But y'know, I've just been over to have a look
at the dreaded Garden Banter. To me it seems a clumsy way to access
gardening newsgroups, but all it claims to do is act as a gateway to
groups, and I can imagine it might feel rather convenient to people
who aren't interested in Usenet as a whole, or who don't like raw
text on their screens. "A web gateway to the finest gardening
newsgroups" is what it says on the tin, and that's what it is. It
doesn't appear to claim ownership or anything like that, and it
hasn't censored out these anti-Garden Banter messages. I think
there's a bit of paranoia going on here.

--
Mike.