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QUOTE (Gwent rail @ 29 Jul 2007, 23:59) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I have to take issue with him about his attitude to those of us who use the internet.
Probably a truckload of sour grapes !
As a modeller, I no longer buy both the Toddlers, Model Rail & at least one or two of the others every month - that saves me something like £170 annually which will allow me to buy one high quality locomotive for my own collection - what would I prefer at the end of the year - a 6" stack of magazines, never to be read again or a nice DR01 ?
Forums give you a wider range of unbiast opinions (it's quite easy to sort the chaff from the wheat), responses are quicker & the amount of advice/information available can be almost instant - I remember the days when you wanted information - write to the magazine, await publication, someone writes in with the information, await publication & then if you were lucky you would get the answer in about three months - these days you usually get the answer in minutes !
Having said that I do buy the occasional magazine if there is at least one artical of interest in it for me - last year I bought maybe four or five & when I've read them they now get passed on.
Probably a truckload of sour grapes !
As a modeller, I no longer buy both the Toddlers, Model Rail & at least one or two of the others every month - that saves me something like £170 annually which will allow me to buy one high quality locomotive for my own collection - what would I prefer at the end of the year - a 6" stack of magazines, never to be read again or a nice DR01 ?
Forums give you a wider range of unbiast opinions (it's quite easy to sort the chaff from the wheat), responses are quicker & the amount of advice/information available can be almost instant - I remember the days when you wanted information - write to the magazine, await publication, someone writes in with the information, await publication & then if you were lucky you would get the answer in about three months - these days you usually get the answer in minutes !
Having said that I do buy the occasional magazine if there is at least one artical of interest in it for me - last year I bought maybe four or five & when I've read them they now get passed on.
