In article >, michael > wrote:
>I keep wondering if this site is going to continue with all of its
>spam content now,but hope this still works.

*What* spam?

Oh. You're using Google Groups to access the newsgroup. That explains it.

Get yourself a (free) account at eternal-september.org, and a real newsreader
(Thunderbird is a good one), and stop using Google's badly broken portal. For
more than a year now, the only time I've seen any spam in this group is when
someone else quotes or replies to one of the spam posts.

Sorry I can't help you with your viticulture question. But at least I can help
to make reading the newsgroup a better experience for you. Contact me
off-group (doug at milmac dot com) if you have questions about how to read
newsgroups without using Google to do it.