> My post brought a roar of disbelief on BEE-L.

Good reporters stick to the facts.  I could not remember any "roar of
disbelief on BEE-L", and I try to be a good reporter, so I went looking back
through the archive of BEE-L postings that I keep on my computer to
straighten myself out.

I checked October and November, 2004, and could not find even a murmer of
disbelief.  I did see two requests for more details, details that were not
provided apparently, on the list, at least.

> "tens of thousands of hives crashing" was the subject line that
> dominated BEE-L's message boards through much of October & early
> November" .

Again, I did not count, but, by any measure, this topic hardly seemed to
have dominated BEE-L.  From memory, I would have been surprised if the
subject line hit even 5% of the total in either month, so, I read through
the posts again.

Although the subject line -- picked out of a post by Bob on another matter,
"Re: [BEE-L] Small Hive Beetle" (Oct 24th), and pasted into the subject line
by another writer on the same day -- persisted, discussion under that thread
actually moved on to formic acid and other topics, and I would guess that
the posts that actually were about "tens of thousands of hives crashing"
could be counted on both hands with fingers left over.  Details were never
revealed.

 Maybe I have deleted some of the posts in my cache?  I don't think so, but
I can't find the roar, and I'm hoping that someone can point me to the
missing posts that dominated BEE-L.  Then again, BEE-L has no "message
boards", so maybe the post refers to another BEE-L?

allen
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