I hope he's not reading this.

You never know who is reading a newsgroup. I have been quite amazed at the
responses I have received from 'lurkers'. Another good group of newsgroup
to go into is uk.local.* and pass comment on a local topic. Ask a question
of the Police, Council or the like and I find things get done. Classic case
a few years back where the Police had FIVE on duty watching and stopping
cars who had been onto, and stopped, on the yellow boxes at a big
complicated roundabout. I asked on the newsgroup how they could justify
this, when only a short while earlier, they 'didn't have enough staff to
investigate a break in at my daughter's house until tomorrow, please leave
everything where it is'.


Never saw such an overload of Police doing that exercise again :-))
A part of the main road was very badly pot marked and I explained on the
newsgroup where it was, and as it was not outside County Hall, no one
bothered. A couple of days later it was done :-))

Newsgroups. Magic :-))

Mike


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