BS: 2006 Chicago to New Orleans walk-outcome?

Subject: BS: 2006: Chicago to New Orleans-outcome???
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 02:23 PM

I had to close the Serious Advice Needed thread because it had become a regular target for Spam. It's a fascinating thread about the plans of a man from the U.K. to walk from Chicago to New Orleans - but the thread didn't say whether he ever made the trip. Anybody know what happened?
I love walking cities, and I've walked the older districts of many of the cities of the U.S. and Europe and never had a problem - but I've never walked between cities and I've always slept in motels or homes. Don't know that I'd consider a trip like this young man had planned, but it sure sounds like a wonderful adventure.
Any word on the outcome? Was it posted in another thread?
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: 2006 Chicago to New Orleans walk-outcome?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 02:38 PM

The fellow's name is Joe Topping, from Liverpool. Here's a link to the "news" page on his website: CLICK

Subject: RE: BS: 2006 Chicago to New Orleans walk-outcome?
From: Wolfgang
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 02:39 PM

My advice: Change the words 'advice needed' in the title to other words and you can reopen the thread safely.

Wolfgang

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Thread title doesn't seem to be what affects the pattern of Spam posting, Wolfgang. Certain thread URLs seem to be targeted. On occasion, I've moved all the "good" messages from a spam-targeted thread and retained the title, and that seems to resolve the problem - but I have to move messages one at a time, so I can't do that on long threads.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: 2006 Chicago to New Orleans walk-outcome?
From: maeve
Date: 10 Jan 07 - 12:49 AM

Thanks for posting this thread, Joe, and thanks to Bee-dubya-ell for the website link. I was wondering what had come of his plans.

maeve