Here are two more replies, reposted by moderation due to quotes of the entire previous message included. (see posting guidelines) BEE-L moderators will never change your words, but moderators will clip out quotes or reject posts with too many quotes. --- I am a 3rd year beekeeper from GA (USA). I have currently have 4 hives of pure Russian bees, and plan on expanding over the next couple of years to around 15-20 hives. I find the info on here to be relevant, decipherable, and helpful to me about 10% of the time. Probably 40% of the stuff I see on here is academically meritorious, but way over my level of expertise. The other 50%... not so useful. I keep stumbling across posts that falls in the first 10%, so I keep on reading. Arthur in middle GA (USA) --- Charla Hinkle writes: My name is Charla and I am a 3rd year beek. I learn more from bee-l than I gather from the forums. I lurk because I really am not learned enough in the vast majority of topics to contribute. With each post I refine my knowledge. *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm