[email protected] (marc) wrote in message
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> Simon Mason <
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>
> > Here:
http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/zpaper.htm
>
> Am I the only one that is annoyed by posting's which are just URLs? I have seen a local NG that
> has gone down the pan because of this habit, resulting in people just posting urls back and forth
> to each other and saying things like " Yes, that's good isn't it?", no real discussion, and never
> a hint about that the original post was about.
At first I thought you meant that we don't want to download tedious letters from obscure provincial
newspapers about people riding on pavements, in which case I would save my time and web space by not
putting them on the 'net in the first place.
Then I realised that you meant that I should put up a description of the item along these lines.
"In our local paper today a parent whose teenage daughter was injured by a pavement cyclist
complained to the police who sent round an inspector to discuss the matter with them. The inspector
assured the parent that additional police resources would be diverted to the problem area. The
parent has seen no evidence of this and indeed went so far as to take photos of the cyclists. While
the parent accepts that the police have a difficult enough job as it is they feel that there should
be some action on clamping down on the problem."
Now, if I had written this then the posting of the URL would have been futile, since anyone can
work the above out for themselves by reading the letter. It needs no introduction at all. The
reader's thought processes would then conclude that even if someone goes to all the trouble that
this parent did, then it is still very unlikely that a pavement cyclist will get fined.
The post need not have been intended to initiate a discussion thread; indeed the other post about
constructing a sports stadium with a dedicated cycle track to the front door along with 300 stands
was not intended to create a thread. It was merely to show that the needs of cyclist were
pre-eminent in the designer's minds, ahead of cars since these have to be left in the city centre.
However, if people don't want this sort of thing on a cycling NG then I won't waste my time
posting it here.
Simom