The original reason that I returned to this newsgroup was to invite any of the active members to try the new weather and climate forum that I created this week almost by accident, on Google Groups. Unfortunately this post, like many other threads on this newsgroup it was hijacked, and its original intention was lost.

This is just a reminder to anyone reading this, there is a simple alternative which is free from posts that have little to do with weather, and where you (can't and) won't need a kill file. We now have 22 subscribers which has surprised me, I hope you will join us and together we can make it work.