well, despite the rumour that comcr@p was going to kill newsgroups
yesterday, i am still able to post and read. i freely admit to not
knowing how all this works--i'm on gignews, maybe it's going around the
'cr@p...

so! that wilsonara i bought in march and put in s/h grew a new pbulb,
and is now growing a spike.

--j_a