G'Day First thanks to Jackie and Glen for explaining what was going on with the unwanted attachments to my EMail. I'm now in the market for a service that doesn't do this. I just hope that the people who recently made enquiries about The Who's Who service have not received this particular attachment and I apologise sincerely if you have. Regarding venomous spiders and kayaking Shawn wrote SNIP > Are the ones in AU also commonly called "Aggressive House Spiders" and > "Hobo Spiders"? And Mark wrote SNIP > I was recently bitten by what appears to have been a "House Spider" or "Hobo > Spider", and I can tell you for sure, I don't want that to happen again. What Aussies call the funnel web spider may be related to the Hobo Spider but it doesn't sound the same - the symptom for being bitten by a funnel web frequently used to be death. Now there is an antivenene and if you're bitten you get to a hospital as quickly as possible. I haven't heard of anyone dying from a funnel web spider bite in years but when I was much younger it did happen occasionally. I first learn't about them the night before I emigrated to Australia. PS to maintain the relevance to kayaking - the other thing I check for spiders is inside my foldable kayak which is left to dry out on trestles under the verandah before being stored. All the best, PeterO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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