On 4 Feb 2005 12:09:44 -0800, nancree wrote:

> There are some of us who depend on Google for reading newsgroups. When
> someone posts that they can find an item at "Sammy's", or whatever, we
> need to know what city/area that is in.

Not just the Google-users, either. I can _sometimes_ figure out where
someone is posting from; if the ISP is one I know is local to one area, for
example.

Of course, it's possible to _ask_. But my experience in other newsgroups
has been that the replies tend to be such unhelpful ones as "I'm in the
South," "I'm on the East Coast," "I'm in California."


> For example, :
> " know I'm beginning to sound like a broken record here, but
> Bloomingfoods and Sahara Mart are at most likely possibilities for
> hunting down some of the fancier chocolates. I know Sahara Mart has
> bars of Lindt...."
> I don't mean to pick on this particular poster, but the problem
> occurs so often.
> ..."Boswick's has a sale on citrus this week" (where's that?)
> ..."Trader Joe's here now carries frozen elderberries ." (where
> ..."Our neighborhood Starbucks is dirty".(we'd like to know which
> one).
> And on a cozier note, when someone posts, for instance, "We're snowed
> in", or, "the hurricane is expected to get here tonight", we'd like to
> know where. It's friendlier to know where--we might have relatives in
> that area, or we might just be concerned about you.
> Also, Google does not carry your e-mail address on your posts. So if
> you need a private reply (some of you ask for that), you'll have to
> include your address in the body of your post.
> Thanks for listening,
> Nancree



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