There's a big difference between suggestions in the group on better cups of
tea from multiple infusions and the market practice of selling expensive
teas to gullible customers suggesting they recoup their costs by reusing the
leaves. The rest of the world doesn't buy tea from a website or tea shoppe.

Jim

"Derek" > wrote in message
...
> It was open stage night in rec.food.drink.tea, when Space Cowboy
> stepped up to the microphone and muttered:
>
> > Remember you still need permission to use anyone's opinion for a
> > book. For example don't assume tepid tea temperatures for
> > certain teas or multiple infusions for others are part of the
> > public domain. It's only discussed in this ng. The rest of the
> > world boils water for tea. You'll never find in any publication
> > about altitude and the effects for making tea. I could go on
> > and on on the wealth of knowledge specific to this group. So
> > take your panhandling somewhere else.
>
> A "wealth of knowledge", much of which came from somewhere else.
>
> For example, I learned about water temperature and multiple
> infusions from my local tea shop, not from this newsgroup.
>
> Just because it isn't online elsewhere and it isn't published does
> not make it "knowledge specific to this group."
>
> There's a lot of people in the world who drink tea, and most of
> them don't post here.
>
> --
> Derek