"Billy" wrote in message
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"Paul M. Cook" wrote:

"Bill who putters" wrote in message
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"Paul M. Cook" wrote:

"Phisherman" wrote in message
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On Sun, 23 May 2010 00:17:35 -0700, "Paul M. Cook"
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"Billy" wrote in message
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"Paul M. Cook" wrote:

I visited the plants tonight and one of my cucumber pots was
crawling
with
slugs. I removed about a dozen by hand. How effective are the
natural
remedies. I searched the Net and see that a bowl of cheap beer
attracts
the
slugs who apparently are alcoholics. Once sated with the beer
they
forget
to exit the bowl and die. Happily. Would a bowl of chips
increase
the
effectiveness?

Anyone have any favorite methods? I'd even consider a chemical
solution
if
it were not especially toxic.

Can I expect slugs to be less of an issue when the summer heat
arrives?
Do
they burrow into the soil in the pots?

You sure, you should be gardening?
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OK, so this means you have nothing of any use to say?

Paul



I doubt it, but it looks like this newsgroup is getting closer to
"dead."

It's a shame. I've been a newsgroup junkie since 88. Sorry to see it
all
pass.

Paul

According to goggle groups you have not posted that much till 2008 and
I'd guess your number increase is due to cross posting.

You probably don't know this but Google was not always the owner of the
newsgroup archives.

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.s...thread/fb7da3f
cf75cce9d/185cb59c1360de6?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=authormcook%40gte.net

That was one from 97. There are plenty more earlier than that.

Uh, I worked in academia before 1) the Internet was open to the public
and
2) Google did not exist and 3) before AOL and existed even. In fact, I
was
a computer science major in college in the early 80s and our school
worked
on some of the original RFCs for various Internet protocols like NNTP. I
also worked for DARPA after college while working for the DoD. My first
newsgroup post (before they were even archived) was in 1988 on a COBOL
programmers group. I was a CompuServe subscriber long before the
Internet
was even public.

So I've been around a very long time.

Paul

It's amazing how long some folks stay alive. Still, he says he worked
for the Defense Dept., which would answer a lot of questions.

Hey billyboy, you basically have 2 options he one, put me in your
killfile and two, just ignore me using your impressive powers of restraint.
Other than that your options are pretty limited. I for one have no use for
you or your type. If my plebian questions about garden plants offend you,
that is your issue, not mine.

Paul