I'm really sad Mailcopiesto: never

I'm sad, too. But I stand by what I said.

During the Foot & Mouth epidemic in 2001, uk.business.agriculture (UBA) was, as you might expect, phenomenally busy. I can't remember offhand if you were present, but you may well have been -- everyone else seemed to be! We had innumerable heated discussions, some involving characters who resort to obscenity and insult at the drop of a hat, or even a drop of rain. Facts and factoids were unearthed, laid out in ranks, inspected, and ridiculed. Opinions were aired and subjected to full frontal buttault. I found it awe-full, appalling, fascinating and wonderful. When the epidemic has ended, I was contacted by a researcher asking for permission to quote my posts at length in his PhD dealing with the way in which people used the Internet during the crisis. My point is that anyone who posts to Usenet should realise the ramifications of so doing. The archives1 will reveal what we are -- our failings as well as our triumphs -- to whatever posterity can read them.

ObFood: I had some of that Covent Garden soup the other day. Leek and Smoked Bacon, marketed as 'low carbohydrate', presumably because the leek subsbreastutes for potato. It was good, or at least I like it :-)

regards sarah

-- Think of it as evolution in action.