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In Response To: Thanks, Jeff ()

I think that we are in agreement -- there are more websites, forum postings to be searched, blogs, books and other sources of information. So we are less likely to have someone ask "how do I set this X-33?" or "how old is this Carrera?" [By the way, I've got so say that some of the "beginner's" questions on TimeZone continue to amaze me. Yesterday, someone asked whether TAG-Heuer is a French brand. You have to wonder whether this guy had never heard of Google, Bing or Yahoo . . . or maybe he could have looked on the dial of any TAG-Heuer watch. His question evoked six or eight responses, so it his query was a big contributor to TZ's volume of postings, but what a waste of bandwidth!! ]

Interesting that the volume of messages on our vintage Heuer forum has remained relatively stable or even increased over the past year. This may be attributable to having a growing community of vintage Heuer enthusiasts and the only English language forum dedicated to the vintage Heuers. We have several old-timers who have been posting for years, and we also get a steady stream of newcomers who join the community. There is a life-cycle in which people drift away from the forum, but the newcomers are still arriving at a nice rate, to make up for those who move on to other pursuits. (TAG-Heuer also has a lot going on, as they introduce new models and approach their 150th anniversary, and the discussion of new models has created some marginal interest.)

Jeff

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: Your thoughts on this broad topic are interesting.

: Are folks less likely to ask questions than they used to be?
: Perhaps true "in the middle", if I may say and define
: what I mean.

: Basic questions from the truly uninformed are not much helped by
: Google -- they don't know what to ask -- that's one
: "end" and those questions continue.

: Very detailed questions only appropriate for experts make their way
: to the forums today, perhaps more easily due to Google -- that's
: the other "end".

: What I think has declined may be the questions that a reasonably to
: marginally knowledgeable person would ask on the forums in the
: past that they now can find by Googling past posts on the forum
: or elsewhere on the web. If I need to know how to set the X-33,
: Google can point me where to go, for instance.

: Sam

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