rockylizard wrote:

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Gday...

This article was discussed recently on here ... some valid comment contained within -

http://thegreynomads.activeboard.com/t59924267/imintji-storeroad-house-on-gibb-river-road-wa-closes/

Cheers - John

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You beat me to it John.  Still amazes me how people don't bother to read any of the previous posts.  Vic only posted this yesterday.  It's not like it was months ago, and on another page.

Cheers,

Sheba.

 

Steve, Di & Ziggy,

There is not need for you to even think of apologising re the above.
For example, if nobody had posted the articles, there would still have been people complaining as to, why if you knew, that you failed to share the article.
It is better to over communicate then under communicate.
I say well done to you for bringing it to our attention.
By the way I read your article before the other so there, you have made me and many other aware of the issue.
Thanks again
Jay&Dee

Thanks JayDee and RodLainie for the kind words & support.

My reply was more sarcasm than an apology.

To those that critisized me for post duplication, Id also like to point out to that when one does a search, the search only returns results of text found in the body of the post NOT the title so my search would never find anything about that post because the only reference to Gibb River was only in the title AND there was no information in the body just a link which obviously is not searched either.  That said, my post also did not reference Gibb River in the body either so I will now endeavour to include the Title of the topic in the body for future posts so it's text can be found using the search function and would suggest others do the same.

To the Moderators/Site Admins, if you are reading this can I suggest you include the Title of the topic in Search Criteria and Results, this should be a simple setting within your admin panel and if it is not then it wouldn't be that hard to add the extra PHP needed to modify the Search function.

 

Main thing is GN's are aware of it if contemplating travelling Gibb River Road and don't get caught short.

I remember when the Yalata Roadhouse closed on the Nullabor, some got caught out that weren't aware it had been closed down.  Some maps & brochures still showed it as a roadhouse for fuel.  

I've been guilty of double posting myself in the past (old fart's disease in my case)......these things happen.

madaboutled wrote:

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~~~SNIP To those that critisized me for post duplication, ~~~~ 

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Gday...

WOW  .... may I sincerely apologise for not realising there are those amongst us who are very sensitive. 

The majority of forum members would be quite aware of the shortcomings of the search function and probably, like me, rarely use it.

The ONLY reason I included a link to the initial post on the topic was so that those valid and pertinent comments on the 'original' thread would be added to the latter thread. It was in no way meant to be a criticism or denigrating of anyone's effort.

Again, sorry to have twisted anyone's knickers and apologise for touching your sensitivity. 

Cheers - John

Setting your post settings in "User Details" to show new and unread threads will help a lot if not done already for anyone posting, especially if in the same section (eg; General Forum).  That bring them to the top so you don't have to scroll down the whole page etc.

In the welcome and forum rules the Webmaster has this advice for looking for new posts etc,

"Order of topics:  As a default, topics on our forum are displayed by the date/time they were created rather than the date they were modified or added to. This means that if someone places a new post on a thread that was initially started several weeks ago, you may not notice it if you use the forums default settings.  If youd like to change the order that posts are displayed on your computer, you can do that on your profile section.  Just click on your own name once youve logged in.  The top left-hand side of the page is labelled the Profile section, and you will see a link entitled settings.  Once you have clicked on the settings link, you can see several options available on the order of topics.  To change it, just select the option you want and ensure you click Save changes at the bottom of that page to store your preferences."

-- Edited by Weevil on Friday 3rd of April 2015 11:08:03 AM

No worries Steve, I just thought posting that might help some of the more recent members that may not be aware of it, not everyone reads the rules/tips etc for the forum, but should.