FarmI wrote:

You could try the library or online ask in the misc.rural newsgroup
but be cautious there. If Pete Heubner from NZ answers you, he's
reliable as are a few of the Americans but excercise caution as some
of the Yanks are quite clueless.


A strange place. It seems given over to politics and culture wars, salted
with long running vendettas where nobody recalls how it started. I wonder
if those matters accurately reflect the preoccupations of rural USA ,or
anywhere, or is it just an artifact of usenet.

David