ML wrote:
I need advice on this difficulty.

crap snipped

I have just Googled this idiot's email address and he's multiposted this to
about a dozen groups, all of them ones he's (probably) never posted to
before.

And, strangely enough, when I clicked reply, in the newsgroup box wasn't
"uk.rec.gardening' but 'uk.local.essx' (missing 'e' deliberate). So he's
obviously engineered the headers.

Sarah