Trip report

[tim....]

Are there enough people here to bother posting my report?

Is there somewhere else I should put it that will be useful to people?

tim

[S Viemeister]

On 5/31/2012 6:57 AM, tim.... wrote:
> Are there enough people here to bother posting my report?
>
> Is there somewhere else I should put it that will be useful to people?
>

I think there probably are a number of people who check in fairly often,
see nothing of interest, and silently wander off elsewhere.

[Erilar]

"tim...." <tims_n...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Are there enough people here to bother posting my report?
>
> Is there somewhere else I should put it that will be useful to people?
>

I add one to my web page. . . eventually 8-). I've been doing the album
first, and it's 73 pages. I need to be very selective about what goes
into the page I add to Erilar's Cave Annex.


--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad

[Ken Blake]

I'm one of those. I am here almost every day to see what's here, but
very rarely post myself.


--
Ken Blake

[S Viemeister]

That makes at least three of us to read Tim's trip report...

[Sheila Page]

In message <a2pmfb...@mid.individual.net>, S Viemeister
<firs...@lastname.oc.ku> writes

Four...
--
---
Sheila Page

[Runge 666]

If it's such a bother to give one click, then don't bother.


"tim...." <tims_n...@yahoo.co.uk> a écrit dans le message de groupe de
discussion : a2p16n...@mid.individual.net...

[Erick T. Barkhuis]

Runge 666:

> "tim....":

> > Are there enough people here to bother posting my report?

> If it's such a bother to give one click, then don't bother.

For once, if have to agree with Runge, Tim.
Just post the report if you like to publish it, don't have us beg for
it first.

--
Erick

[EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)]

I check in more-or-less daily, but pick and choose, depending upon where
the poster traveled. If it's not somewhere I'd like to go, or a place
that otherwise interests me, I don't bother, but interests differ, so by
all means post your trip reports! (I don't EVER use "Twitter" or
"Facebook", so if its not on Usenet, I won't see it.)
>

[gtr]

And people that check in every 6 or 8 months as they plan vacations.

[gtr]

It's the "blogger's angst". You want to share info, but you want
someone to acknowledge the sharement. In the end you have to live with
the fact that it may be true: Maybe no one does give a shit what you
have to say. Or what you have to say *today*. So saying it for your
"dear diary" or posting it in an universally accesible and universally
ignored blog or usenet post--it's all the same thing.

Honestly, once you arrive at the conclusion that they are all like a
message in a bottle, and one that may never wash out further than
you're swimming pool, you acclimate. It can be freeing in a way.

I've come to think of my various blogs as the virtual equivalent of a
shoebox of thoughts, memories, momentos, creative writing, songs, etc.
It is then place in the bottom of the closet and boxes are stacked on
top of it, the closet is closed, locked and the house abandoned.

It's like my three-bean salad story. Which I will post later, to
undoubtedly zero audience. I assume.

[tim....]

"Erick T. Barkhuis" <erick....@ardane.c.o.m> wrote in message
news:a2pu2r...@mid.individual.net...

It isn't "just one click"

It's the four hours it will take me to type it up.

I don't type it for my own sake, I do it if I have somewhere to post that
others will read it and find useful/interesting.

I'm not asking you to beg, I just need an idea how many people are still
here

tim

[tim....]

"gtr" <x...@yyy.zzz> wrote in message news:2012053114491017579-xxx@yyyzzz...

> On 2012-05-31 19:11:23 +0000, Erick T. Barkhuis said:
>
>> Runge 666:
>>
>>> "tim....":
>>>> Are there enough people here to bother posting my report?
>>
>>> If it's such a bother to give one click, then don't bother.
>>
>> For once, if have to agree with Runge, Tim.
>> Just post the report if you like to publish it, don't have us beg for
>> it first.
>
> It's the "blogger's angst".

Though bogging is a "long" game. You may start off with only a few
followers, but your aim is to gather more and more as you post more and
more.

Posting a report on here is a one-off, that (experience tells us) almost
no-one will read from the archives later.

tim

[Erick T. Barkhuis]

tim....:

>
>"Erick T. Barkhuis" <erick....@ardane.c.o.m> wrote in message
>news:a2pu2r...@mid.individual.net...
>>Runge 666:
>>
>>>"tim....":
>>>> Are there enough people here to bother posting my report?
>>
>>
>>>If it's such a bother to give one click, then don't bother.
>>
>>For once, if have to agree with Runge, Tim.
>>Just post the report if you like to publish it, don't have us beg
>>for it first.
>
>It isn't "just one click"
>It's the four hours it will take me to type it up.

Ah, OK, my bad.
Somehow, I understood that you already have the report ready.


--
Erick

[Erilar]

I keep a running trip diary along the way, and now that I travel with iPad,
it gets typed along the way as well. Because I put each trip into an album
with that interspersed between hundreds of fotos, it takes me a week or two
while I'm also doing spring chores. THEN I start think about writing the
web page, which is a distillation with only a few fotos.

[Ken Blake]

Bear in mind that the number of us here is not the same as the number
of us that will read it. For one thing, I don't think you've told us
where your trip was. If it's a place I have no interest in, I might
not read it.

And whether I might read it also has to do with its length. If it's
very long (four hours of typing makes it sound very long), I probably
wouldn't, unless it looks really terrific. Other factors are how well
you write, and what are the things you write about in the place. And
if you write about a place that I know, and I start reading it and
find that I disagree with most of your opinions about it, I'd probably
stop quickly.

So regardless of what answers you get, it's very hard to know how many
people will read it.


--
Ken Blake

[gtr]

Still I think the basic motivation, and the intended "payback" are the
same. Just my view.

[gtr]

On 2012-06-01 09:41:55 +0000, tim.... said:

> I don't type it for my own sake, I do it if I have somewhere to post
> that others will read it and find useful/interesting.

How can you know how useful/interesting it will be to people who won't
arrive here for months. The first time I visitied this usegroup, a few
years ago, I read it for hours, and messages from up to 5 or 6 years
before.

[Erick T. Barkhuis]

gtr:

> The first time I visitied this usegroup, a few years ago,
> I read it for hours, and messages from up to 5 or 6 years before.

<sigh>
Those were the days!
</s>

[Doug Anderson]

Ken Blake <kbl...@kb.invalid> writes:

> On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 10:41:55 +0100, "tim...."
> <tims_n...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >
> > "Erick T. Barkhuis" <erick....@ardane.c.o.m> wrote in message
> > news:a2pu2r...@mid.individual.net...
> > > Runge 666:
> > >
> > >> "tim....":
> > >> > Are there enough people here to bother posting my report?
> > >
> > >
> > >> If it's such a bother to give one click, then don't bother.
> > >
> > > For once, if have to agree with Runge, Tim.
> > > Just post the report if you like to publish it, don't have us beg for
> > > it first.
> >
> > It isn't "just one click"
> >
> > It's the four hours it will take me to type it up.
> >
> > I don't type it for my own sake, I do it if I have somewhere to post that
> > others will read it and find useful/interesting.
> >
> > I'm not asking you to beg, I just need an idea how many people are still
> > here
>
>
> Bear in mind that the number of us here is not the same as the number
> of us that will read it. For one thing, I don't think you've told us
> where your trip was. If it's a place I have no interest in, I might
> not read it.
>
> And whether I might read it also has to do with its length. If it's
> very long (four hours of typing makes it sound very long),

If he had more time, he would be writing a shorter report...

[tim....]

"Ken Blake" <kbl...@kb.invalid> wrote in message
news:fkjhs7p321ka4ck0e...@4ax.com...

Well I'm not very good at writing so it takes me a long time to get it right
as I amend it several times to get something good enough to publish (even on
a news group).

And even then, it may not be written well enough for you to "like" it :-(

I didn't almost flunk "English" for no reason :-) (that's an English exam in
my first language, not a second one!)

tim

[tim....]

"gtr" <x...@yyy.zzz> wrote in message news:2012060109344347369-xxx@yyyzzz...

Than you are in a very tiny minority

Experience of 10 years on usenet suggests that almost no-one who is new to a
group reads the archive material

tim

[gtr]

On 2012-06-01 18:27:25 +0000, tim.... said:

> "gtr" <x...@yyy.zzz> wrote in message news:2012060109344347369-xxx@yyyzzz...
>> On 2012-06-01 09:41:55 +0000, tim.... said:
>>
>>> I don't type it for my own sake, I do it if I have somewhere to post
>>> that others will read it and find useful/interesting.
>>
>> How can you know how useful/interesting it will be to people who won't
>> arrive here for months. The first time I visitied this usegroup, a few
>> years ago, I read it for hours, and messages from up to 5 or 6 years
>> before.
>
> Than you are in a very tiny minority

Or maybe not. I believe the vast majority treat usenet like a website:
The view, read, skim and move on without leaving a footprint.

> Experience of 10 years on usenet suggests that almost no-one who is new
> to a group reads the archive material

Experience of 20 years on usenet suggest I still could never accurately
project what proportion there is of people who lurk versus post on this
or any other usegroup. A few hints have me believing that in some
groups it's 20 to 1 that lurk v. post.

That's not all groups.

[Dave Smith]

On 31/05/2012 6:57 AM, tim.... wrote:
> Are there enough people here to bother posting my report?

No

>
> Is there somewhere else I should put it that will be useful to people?

No

[Irwell]

About a million to one with newspapers.

[Ken Blake]

On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 13:17:26 -0700, gtr <x...@yyy.zzz> wrote:

> On 2012-06-01 18:27:25 +0000, tim.... said:
>
> > "gtr" <x...@yyy.zzz> wrote in message news:2012060109344347369-xxx@yyyzzz...
> >> On 2012-06-01 09:41:55 +0000, tim.... said:
> >>
> >>> I don't type it for my own sake, I do it if I have somewhere to post
> >>> that others will read it and find useful/interesting.
> >>
> >> How can you know how useful/interesting it will be to people who won't
> >> arrive here for months. The first time I visitied this usegroup, a few
> >> years ago, I read it for hours, and messages from up to 5 or 6 years
> >> before.
> >
> > Than you are in a very tiny minority
>
> Or maybe not. I believe the vast majority treat usenet like a website:
> The view, read, skim and move on without leaving a footprint.

None of us can prove our viewpoints, but I agree with Tim. You are in
a very tiny minority. And although I can't prove it, I'm very
confident that I'm right.

> > Experience of 10 years on usenet suggests that almost no-one who is new
> > to a group reads the archive material
>
> Experience of 20 years on usenet suggest I still could never accurately
> project what proportion there is of people who lurk versus post on this
> or any other usegroup. A few hints have me believing that in some
> groups it's 20 to 1 that lurk v. post.

My guess is that it's usually much more than 20 to 1. But that has
nothing to do with how many people go through the archives to read old
posts.


--
Ken Blake

[gtr]

On 2012-06-02 00:37:50 +0000, Ken Blake said:

> None of us can prove our viewpoints, but I agree with Tim. You are in
> a very tiny minority. And although I can't prove it, I'm very
> confident that I'm right.

I think you're in the tiniest minority imaginable--just
microscopic!--and that the entire universe thinks just the way I do
about everything from pickling cucumbers to bop guitar string gauges.

I can't prove it but it's the only reality that isn't worthy of my
absolute contempt.

Any one else care to vote about the number of dancing camels on the
head of an imaginary footstool?

[Paul Aubrin]

Even those who ask information before they travel rarely report
afterwards. A few did, and it was very interesting.

[Paul Aubrin]

On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:41:55 +0100, tim.... wrote:

> t isn't "just one click"
>
> It's the four hours it will take me to type it up.

Write it in several smaller episodes...

[Paul Aubrin]

On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:37:50 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

>> [...]

>
>
>
> My guess is that it's usually much more than 20 to 1. But that has
> nothing to do with how many people go through the archives to read old
> posts.

Last November, as an experiment, I posted two references to youtube and
looked how the access count evolved. One of the videos was a busy one and
I couldn't detect any surplus in activity, for the second one, my
impression is that it was only slightly more accessed that usually,
perhaps some two dozen access more.
This group declined when it was heavily spammed some years ago.
Usenet used to be an interesting place.

[tim....]

"Paul Aubrin" <chu8...@free.fr> wrote in message
news:4fca1c69$0$6550$426a...@news.free.fr...

Oh I will!

Doesn't stop it taking 4 hours :-(

tim

[Runge 666]

Anyway we don't want to hear about what you eat, if your lady was sea sick
or if you spent a lot of money.
Duh.

"tim...." <tims_n...@yahoo.co.uk> a écrit dans le message de groupe de

discussion : a2rh5p...@mid.individual.net...

[Runge 666]

Maybe you could switch to knitting instead of idioting

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evg...@earthlink.net> a écrit dans le
message de groupe de discussion : jq8h9...@news4.newsguy.com...

[Runge 666]

hmmm not always.
Some "reports" look more like a private ho hum diary.



"Paul Aubrin" <chu8...@free.fr> a écrit dans le message de groupe de
discussion : 4fca1b6b$0$15495$426a...@news.free.fr...

[EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)]

Dave Smith wrote:
> On 31/05/2012 6:57 AM, tim.... wrote:
>> Are there enough people here to bother posting my report?
>
> No

Speak for yourself, Dave! Many of us still read rte, and appreciate
reading about other travelers' experiences.

[aquachimp]

On May 31, 12:57 pm, "tim...." <tims_new_h...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Are there enough people here to bother posting my report?
>

> Is there somewhere else I should put it that will be useful to people?
>

> tim

I just did a quick check and notice that if you put the destination
alongside the words Trip report in your search engine, you'll see
various sites from which it's likely to get more exposure, if that's
what you're after.
Personally, I just like the exercise of putting something together and
to hell with whether anyone sees it or not.

[Runge 666]

But no one is interested, except a small bunch of old people who have
nothing to do !!
Keep your stuff to yourself, it's private.

"tim...." <tims_n...@yahoo.co.uk> a écrit dans le message de groupe de
discussion : a2um52...@mid.individual.net...

[Runge 666]

Lol the oid dame is interested between 2 shots.


"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evg...@earthlink.net> a écrit dans le
message de groupe de discussion : jqdtk...@news6.newsguy.com...

[Runge 666]

Not him, he wants the world to be aware.
Yawn.


"aquachimp" <aqua...@fsmail.net> a écrit dans le message de groupe de
discussion :
6fd26e8e-5f13-4b05...@l5g2000vbo.googlegroups.com...

[Beer Tricks Potter]

On May 31, 12:57 pm, "tim...." <tims_new_h...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Are there enough people here to bother posting my report?
>
> Is there somewhere else I should put it that will be useful to people?
>
> tim

you could do something like this...

http://travelswithanineyearold.com/

[tim....]

"Runge 666" <phi...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:4fca8eb5$0$21575$ba4a...@reader.news.orange.fr...

> Not him, he wants the world to be aware.

As I post anonymously, how does that work?

tim

[Dave Smith]

Yeah. I am sure we are interested in reading a trip report when the OP
has to ask if it is worth his effort to post it. Heaven forbid he go to
all the wok of typing up a document to cut and past into a post here.

[EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)]

Why would you dignify Grunge with a reply? Most of us relegated
him/her/it to our "kill" files long ago!

[Runge 666]

Shut up granny, back to your pills and you alone are not most of us, unless
you also have wet dreams ?!


"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evg...@earthlink.net> a écrit dans le
message de groupe de discussion : jqgkj...@news1.newsguy.com...

[Runge 666]

Hohoho

"Beer Tricks Potter" <michael...@yahoo.com> a écrit dans le message de
groupe de discussion :
1da21c96-e0e0-4d90...@l17g2000vbj.googlegroups.com...

[gtr]

On 2012-06-03 20:41:48 +0000, Dave Smith said:

> Yeah. I am sure we are interested in reading a trip report when the OP
> has to ask if it is worth his effort to post it.

I think that's sarcastic, so you're saying your disinterested *because*
he asked? That's a guess...

> Heaven forbid he go to all the wok of typing up a document to cut and
> past into a post here.

Why should he write it if no one cares? Right me three pages of
rationale: I might read it.

[Beer Tricks Potter]

On Jun 3, 11:39 pm, "Runge 666" <phi...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> Hohoho
>
> "Beer Tricks Potter" <michaelnewp...@yahoo.com> a écrit dans le message de
> groupe de discussion :
> 1da21c96-e0e0-4d90-bd16-7d79bf83d...@l17g2000vbj.googlegroups.com...

>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > On May 31, 12:57 pm, "tim...." <tims_new_h...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >> Are there enough people here to bother posting my report?
>
> >> Is there somewhere else I should put it that will be useful to people?
>
> >> tim
>
> > you could do something like this...
>
> >http://travelswithanineyearold.com/

...Santa Claws ?

[Runge 666]

michaelnewport has new pills, he can type 2 words in a go !


"Beer Tricks Potter" <michael...@yahoo.com> a �crit dans le message de
groupe de discussion :
67e8f450-7a89-444e...@d17g2000vbv.googlegroups.com...

> On Jun 3, 11:39 pm, "Runge 666" <phi...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>> Hohoho
>>

>> "Beer Tricks Potter" <michaelnewp...@yahoo.com> a �crit dans le message

[aquachimp]

On Jun 1, 8:25 pm, "tim...." <tims_new_h...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> "Ken Blake" <kbl...@kb.invalid> wrote in message
>
> news:fkjhs7p321ka4ck0e...@4ax.com...

> > On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 10:41:55 +0100, "tim...."
> > <tims_new_h...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >> "Erick T. Barkhuis" <erick.use-...@ardane.c.o.m> wrote in message

> >>news:a2pu2r...@mid.individual.net...
> >> > Runge 666:
>
> >> >> "tim....":

> >> >> > Are there enough people here to bother posting my report?
>

> >> >> If it's such a bother to give one click, then don't bother.
>
> >> > For once, if have to agree with Runge, Tim.
> >> > Just post the report if you like to publish it, don't have us beg for
> >> > it first.
>

> >> It isn't "just one click"

>
> >> It's the four hours it will take me to type it up.
>

> >> I don't type it for my own sake,

I do. It's partly for my own personal amusement and partly to exercise
my English usage.

> I do it if I have somewhere to post that
> >> others will read it and find useful/interesting.

I used to be a regular contributor to tripadvisor and over time
noticed that what it really provides is a platform of self expression.
A great many (people... obviously) just want to spit out wh

>
> >> I'm not asking you to beg, I just need an idea how many people are still
> >> here
>

> > Bear in mind that the number of us here is not the same as the number
> > of us that will read it. For one thing, I don't think you've told us
> > where your trip was. If it's a place I have no interest in, I might
> > not read it.
>
> > And whether I might read it also has to do with its length. If it's
> > very long (four hours of typing makes it sound very long), I probably
> > wouldn't, unless it looks really terrific. Other factors are how well
> > you write, and what are the things you write about in the place. And
> > if you write about a place that I know, and I start reading it and
> > find that I disagree with most of your opinions about it, I'd probably
> > stop quickly.
>
> Well I'm not very good at writing so it takes me a long time to get it right
> as I amend it several times to get something good enough to publish (even on
> a news group).
>
> And even then, it may not be written well enough for you to "like" it :-(
>
> I didn't almost flunk "English" for no reason :-) (that's an English exam in
> my first language, not a second one!)
>
> tim

[aquachimp]

On Jun 8, 9:24 pm, aquachimp <aquach...@fsmail.net> wrote:
> On Jun 1, 8:25 pm, "tim...." <tims_new_h...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > "Ken Blake" <kbl...@kb.invalid> wrote in message
>
> >news:fkjhs7p321ka4ck0e...@4ax.com...
> > > On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 10:41:55 +0100, "tim...."
> > > <tims_new_h...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > >> "Erick T. Barkhuis" <erick.use-...@ardane.c.o.m> wrote in message
> > >>news:a2pu2r...@mid.individual.net...
> > >> > Runge 666:
>
> > >> >> "tim....":
> > >> >> > Are there enough people here to bother posting my report?
>
> > >> >> If it's such a bother to give one click, then don't bother.
>
> > >> > For once, if have to agree with Runge, Tim.
> > >> > Just post the report if you like to publish it, don't have us beg for
> > >> > it first.
>
> > >> It isn't "just one click"
>
> > >> It's the four hours it will take me to type it up.
>
> > >> I don't type it for my own sake,
>
> I do. It's partly for my own personal amusement and partly to exercise
> my English usage.
>
> > I do it if I have somewhere to post that
> > >> others will read it and find useful/interesting.
>
>

I used to be a regular contributor to tripadvisor and over time
noticed that what it really provides is a platform of self expression.

A great many (people... obviously) just want to spit out what matters
to them in the here and now. This is evident by the number of posts
with very similar headings, on the same page, or reviews which simply
seem to be giving the same facts that the previous reviewer had given.
On the, 'how many read my reviews' count, the answer is 'not many'. I
had emails informing me of how many had *read certain reviews.
Sometimes the figure might be as high as "more than 100" occasionally
"more than 10". A figure of "9" was once given, whilst on other
occasions no figure was given at all.
* "read" actually means the number of times a page on which the review
is placed has been viewed)

>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > >> I'm not asking you to beg, I just need an idea how many people are still
> > >> here
>
> > > Bear in mind that the number of us here is not the same as the number
> > > of us that will read it. For one thing, I don't think you've told us
> > > where your trip was. If it's a place I have no interest in, I might
> > > not read it.
>
> > > And whether I might read it also has to do with its length. If it's
> > > very long (four hours of typing makes it sound very long), I probably
> > > wouldn't, unless it looks really terrific. Other factors are how well
> > > you write, and what are the things you write about in the place. And
> > > if you write about a place that I know, and I start reading it and
> > > find that I disagree with most of your opinions about it, I'd probably
> > > stop quickly.
>
> > Well I'm not very good at writing so it takes me a long time to get it right
> > as I amend it several times to get something good enough to publish (even on
> > a news group).

Me too.

>
> > And even then, it may not be written well enough for you to "like" it :-(
>
> > I didn't almost flunk "English" for no reason :-) (that's an English exam in
> > my first language, not a second one!)
>

Oh, I did flunk it.


> > tim

[poldy]

In article <a2sfs3...@mid.individual.net>,

"tim...." <tims_n...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> > And whether I might read it also has to do with its length. If it's
> > very long (four hours of typing makes it sound very long), I probably
> > wouldn't, unless it looks really terrific. Other factors are how well
> > you write, and what are the things you write about in the place. And
> > if you write about a place that I know, and I start reading it and
> > find that I disagree with most of your opinions about it, I'd probably
> > stop quickly.
>
> Well I'm not very good at writing so it takes me a long time to get it right
> as I amend it several times to get something good enough to publish (even on
> a news group).

Does anyone here write blogs if not posting trip reports here?

[aquachimp]

On Jun 10, 10:17 pm, poldy <po...@kfu.com> wrote:
> In article <a2sfs3Fms...@mid.individual.net>,

These show up as a sig line.

[tim....]

"aquachimp" <aqua...@fsmail.net> wrote in message
news:5d2be176-8c77-407c...@d6g2000vbe.googlegroups.com...

Not on my computer they don't

(BTW, I have decided that I will write the report, but other things have
since taken priority, so it may be some time!)

tim

[aquachimp]

On Jun 17, 5:52 pm, "tim...." <tims_new_h...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> "aquachimp" <aquach...@fsmail.net> wrote in message

>
> news:5d2be176-8c77-407c...@d6g2000vbe.googlegroups.com...
> On Jun 10, 10:17 pm, poldy <po...@kfu.com> wrote:
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> > In article <a2sfs3Fms...@mid.individual.net>,
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> > "tim...." <tims_new_h...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > > > And whether I might read it also has to do with its length. If it's
> > > > very long (four hours of typing makes it sound very long), I probably
> > > > wouldn't, unless it looks really terrific. Other factors are how well
> > > > you write, and what are the things you write about in the place. And
> > > > if you write about a place that I know, and I start reading it and
> > > > find that I disagree with most of your opinions about it, I'd probably
> > > > stop quickly.
>
> > > Well I'm not very good at writing so it takes me a long time to get it
> > > right
> > > as I amend it several times to get something good enough to publish
> > > (even on
> > > a news group).
>
> > Does anyone here write blogs if not posting trip reports here?
> >These show up as a sig line
>
>   Not on my computer they don't

Hmm got some sort of anti-sig line spray there?

I'm assuming that the link at the end, under the .... line, of the OP
in the current
"Best hotel booking portals?" thread was such an example.

>
> (BTW, I have decided that I will write the report, but other things have
> since taken priority, so it may be some time!)
>

Ah, I was wondering. Seems like a long, long time since any TR was
posted here.

I popped out for an ice-cream earlier (didn't get one... the queue was
longer than I was prepared to wait for), and considered making a Trip
Report about this non-event, just to get the ball rolling again.

[Beer Tricks Potter]

On Jun 17, 5:52 pm, "tim...." <tims_new_h...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> "aquachimp" <aquach...@fsmail.net> wrote in message

boring...