Re: What is the best European travel-related bulletin board?

On Nov 28, 9:01 pm, d4g...@xxxxxxxxxxx (David Horne, _the_ chancellor
(*)) wrote:
george <gpolkow...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 28, 8:11 pm, Doesn't Frequently Mop
<deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:
On the particular moment of Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:09:08 -0800 (PST) in
relation to Mary's disappointingly immaculate rumpy pumpy, george
<gpolkow...@xxxxxxxxx> put forth:

Even in the past if I wanted information on
rec.travel it might be necessary to intentionally include a few
mistakes, because there are many people ready to correct you, but few
to give a good answer, and hopefully someone along the way will answer
your real question that you're concerned about.

Now that's very cheeky!
--
I've also done that on other usenet groups which I used
professionally. Although I knew that people were able to answer my
questions, often times no one would, and also I noticed that for other
peoples' posts. But seeing that there are always an abundance of
posts correcting mistakes and these posts were almost always replied
to, I found that it always pays to make a few small deliberate ones.
Then when these superior people reply, they may condescend also to
answering your real question.

I've not noticed you doing this, and I also don't agree with your
premise. The only posts I used to see correcting mistakes tended to be
grammar flames, usually originating from one poster, and usually
tangential to travel. And, most 'obvious' questions are usually
answered. I think there's less tolerance of "I'm going to Paris for a
week- what should I see?!!!!" questions than there used to be, and
that's fine.

Well, I don't post questions any more as my traveling days have been
quite constricted to what they used to be for various reasons. For
the professional groups I used to participate in, oftentimes it might
have been the only way to get an answer to a question that you knew
from being on the group for years that some people should easily be
able to answer, but for some reason never would. Of course, you can
also provoke replies from argumentative people, and if done properly,
you might also be able to get an answer. But then, I don't really
like arguing with people on the internet.

As to most 'obvious' questions are usually answered, look at the first
reply. Many threads may just die there or then go off further on a
tangent. I remember asking not very long ago a rec.travel regular
about what source of information was working out best for him as I saw
the same posts of his in this and another two travel-related groups,
TripAdvisor and VirtualTourist. He replied, but just basically blew
me off, not answering the question. I'm sure that he could also
answer the original poster's question, probably has seen it, but will
not deem to reply as he did with me. Another poster in this group
years ago in another professional group advised other people not to
answer my legitimate question because I was obviously a student too
lazy to look up the answer. I'm sure that I was a better professional
than he was, but it's hard when you're in fairly remote Saudi Arabia
to easily obtain information from an obscure professional book that
someone had borrowed and not returned, and simple for someone in the
US.

Actually the "I'm going to Paris for a week- what should I see?" is
potentially the most interesting type of question that can be asked.
I personally hate them, but if every one that is familiar with Paris
would reply, and I'm sure that there are plenty of people in this
group who are, and have a good intelligent discussion about sights,
both obvious and obscure, that it could be quite interesting to learn
other peoples' perspectives and you might learn something useful for a
future trip yourself. I know that I printed out one such reply years
ago about London as it had excellent information about not well known
sights that we subsequently enjoyed visiting. However, it's sad that
people don't realize when asking questions that they should give as
much information as possible about their trip (dates, airports,
proposed method of travel, etc.) and their interests. I always enjoy
answering questions like we'll be in the Stuttgart area on such a date
and are there any special events?, or are there any puppet theaters in
Stuttgart? or what are the auto-related sights? or activities that
would interest young children and the whole family, etc. I put in a
lot of time and effort discovering nearby places to visit wherever I
lived, and I enjoy sharing it with others.

George
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