Subject: Re: Groot Moerhof, on befr<br/>
Date: Nov 22, 2001 @ 04:25<br/>
Author: orc@orcoast.com (orc@...)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1991863845">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Peter Smaardijk &lt;smaardijk@y...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; So GCEBE¹s rule ³Never ask the locals, because<br/>
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&gt; they don¹t know either² is certainly true here as well. <br/>
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 </span></blockquote>in fairness & accuracy<br/>
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this guiding principle was actually first formulated years before at demdpa=
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where a literally resident informant has been routinely & deliberately misl=
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eading visitors about which of two very close markers is the true tristate p=
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oint<br/>
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evidently in hopes of regaining some semblance of the privacy he formerly e=
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njoyed before the heyday of try pointing reached him<br/>
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& i recall it was later reconfirmed near some african tripoints<br/>
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but it is by now fairly universal anyway <br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
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&gt; PS: Yes, the food was good! So, if you are travelling with people that<br/>
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&gt; couldn¹t care less about boundaries (these people exist!), you can<br/>
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&gt; always use this argument.....<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>maybe i snipped it<br/>
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but which argument was that<br/>
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  aw never mind<br/>
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but to be perfectly frank yet not brutal<br/>
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i would care far less about boundaries if they didnt lead to the boundary p=
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oints aka multipoints that make such good try pointing targets<br/>
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& i am repeatedly surprised to see how much people here really do care abou=
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t the boundaries themselves<br/>
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so can anyone offer to explain why they do care so much<br/>
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m</div>