Subject: Re: Groot Moerhof, on befr
Date: Nov 22, 2001 @ 17:50
Author: Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
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> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Peter Smaardijk <smaardijk@y...> wrote:at demdpa=
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> > So GCEBE¹s rule ³Never ask the locals, because
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> > they don¹t know either² is certainly true here as well.
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> in fairness & accuracy
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> this guiding principle was actually first formulated years before
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> where a literally resident informant has been routinely &
> eading visitors about which of two very close markers is the truetristate p=
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> evidently in hopes of regaining some semblance of the privacy he
> njoyed before the heyday of try pointing reached himOK, credit where credit's due. I got this great rule from Jesper in
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> & i recall it was later reconfirmed near some african tripoints
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> but it is by now fairly universal anyway
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> > PS: Yes, the food was good! So, if you are travelling with people
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> > couldn¹t care less about boundaries (these people exist!), you can
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> > always use this argument.....
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> maybe i snipped it
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> but which argument was that
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> aw never mind
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> but to be perfectly frank yet not brutal
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> i would care far less about boundaries if they didnt lead to the
> oints aka multipoints that make such good try pointing targetscare abou=
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> & i am repeatedly surprised to see how much people here really do
> t the boundaries themselvesI can explain why _I_ care so much: At a tripoint, there is normally
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> so can anyone offer to explain why they do care so much