On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 alan.holmes wrote:

I'm new to this forum and new to gardening! I wonder if you could offer
some advice?

First, this is NOT a forum, it is a newsgroup.

That's a bit unkind to a first time poster, Alan, and a trivial
distinction. As it says in the definition on Wikipedia:

"Early Internet forums could be described as a web version of a
newsgroup or electronic mailing list (many of which were commonly called
Usenet); allowing people to post messages and comment on other
messages."

I mention it only because I seem to remember you were even more unkind
to me on my first post in this forum (sic) back in 1995.

Be NICE to people then they won't have reason to take offence! :-)

David

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