"BAC" wrote in message
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Alan Holmes' was by far the best suggestion and contibution to
the thread IMO, something which you yourself and everyone else appear
to have ovelooked. As is often the case on UseNet of course.


You mean, presumably, that unless 'everyone' posts a message expressing
their agreement with and admiration for Alan Holmes' contribution, they
should be assumed to have overlooked its merits.

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No actually I don't.

It's quite possible to concur either wholly or partially, with
previously expressed advice - to wit "as other posters have already
suggested" or similar, and thus lend weight to one suggested course
of action, without necessarily singling out anything, or anyone,
"for admiration", in the process.

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An alternative explanation might be that those who read Alan's
contribution considered there was nothing further to be said on
that aspect of the thread.

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But that happened to be the sole subject matter of the thread.

Whether it was advisable to light a bonfire at present, and if not,
what were the best ways of preventing the accidental incineration
of hedgehogs, and by implication any other wildlife which might
have taken up residence, when a bonfire was eventually lit.

Alan Holmes' suggestion was by far the most appropriate IMO,
as I have already suggested. But it was also the one which would
have involved the OP in the greatest amount of trouble and effort
to implement. Hence the possible reluctance on the part of the OP,
in the absence of any further endorsement of such a course by
any other posters on the NewsGroup.

Everything else only served to obscure the basic issue IMO.




michael adams

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