Anybody know anything about the Festival de l'Imaginaire held every year in March at the Maison des Cultures du Monde on the Blvd Raspail?

They have a web site at www.MCM.asso.fr I was hoping for first hand info.

Please consider reposting your question with a more appropriate title that gives people some idea about your question.

His second post on this subject. First one, with a much better title, is more likely to get responses. I think! You never know around here!

Caph 52 and Sandi....... appreciate your comments which I am fully aware of.Actually, it was my 2nd try and the short title is the result of a typo...I reviewed my message before sending to complete the title and I hit something to send it on its way before I could amend.

Axctually it was my 2nd attempt. I posted on the FRANCE catagory and somehow it ended up in Europe. I couldn't find it (actually it was over 200 postings deep and I never dreamed to keep scrolling.)

What did I do wrong other than the obvious that you both spotted?

You need to know that there really isn't any "France" category; all those posts end up in the "Europe" forum.

If your posts get "buried" and many do...often because the people reading them don't have "the" answer, you can always top your post by replying to it yourself with a TTT.

"You need to know that there really isn't any "France" category; all those posts end up in the "Europe" forum."

Dukey...and how do the France posts get there?

all you have to do, to find your posts so that you can check reponses, is to click on your own name and it'll bring up all the posts you started or responded to. I've been on the board for 8 years now and most of us just glance at the titles which let us know if we might be able to provide some information or answers to your question. I was just trying to point out to you that people may just ignore your post with a title like that. Don't worry about posting with a long-ish title.

Sandi...I am fully aware of the title bubu,I know not to do it..was a typo.I do know how to check on answers. BUT

But please tell me when I click on France I get postings ONLY relating to France and they are very current. How do they get there (why not the ones I did??) and what is its purpose??And all the other countries there?????

Whenever you post on the Europe board, your post will come up for anyone simply coming to the Europe Board. If you click France when you type your title and post your post, then when someone comes to the Europe board and clicks on France, they will see your post. But the vast majority (I think) of people who come here to look at posts, do not click a country name, they read through all the Europe posts, and any post you put there will appear to everyone.

So in other words, clicking France will only allow your post to come up if someone is specifically clicking France to only see the posts about France.

Is that clear?

The countries are a search tool. There is no separate country board. If I was only interested in reading posts on France, for example, I could click on France and only get those posts. However, when I replied to one of those, the message would appear on the Europe board.

And even just clicking on France as a search tool only bribgs up a % of the threads about France.

as the others say - there is no "France" forum.

Neo Patric....I have been posting hhere and reading for a couple of years and I usually look and post in the areas that I will be traveling to. Scrolling on all of Europe is a big time job and just the other day scrolling past 250 postings was barely 3 days of posting and unless one is prepared for multiple searches per day it seems to me to be unmanageable and missing alot of posts in the area interested.

Right now I'm intrested in London and France and in scrolling thru those two catagories I hadn't the foggiest that I wasn't getting all the posts with the sequence of so many date connected posts.

Al, When you click on your name ALL your posts come up with the latest on top.

Bigal, I understand if a person such as you is only interested in one or two countries and comes here only to look at those related posts. And that is the reason that a poster can click a country so that his posts will appear to those who do click a country.

I just meant that I think many people, particularly the "frequent posters" come here and browse through all the Europe forum. And of course all the posts from those who never clicked a country plus all those of specific clicked countries will come up in that case.

If you posted a post and clicked France but it doesn't come up when you search the France listings, then either you failed to click France before posting, or something went wrong here (which wouldn't be the first time).

NeoPatrick.....As I understand it now from your posting above, if I go directly to Search in the upper right hand corner when I get to this section of Fodors web site and click on France, I will be able to view all the postings on France by scrolling down(if the system is working right). Searching in Europe is a matter of choice.

This was my impression before I started this thread. ;-)

&quot;<i>if I go directly to Search in the upper right hand corner when I get to this section of Fodors web site and click on France, I will be able to view all the postings on France by scrolling down</i>&quot;

No - you will only find a % of the threads about France. The ones where the posters remembered to click &quot;France&quot; before they started the thread. Between 25 and 50% of folks don't click a country.

To give you an example right now: if you click on &quot;France&quot;, the first thread you find will be about the l'ocitane factory, and you would miss out on the &quot;favotite Paris walks&quot; thread

JANISJ.....appreciate your info and find I'm geting more confused. I have noticed on a couple of occasions where a posting about France on the Europe catagory was duplicated exactly in both date and time on the France catagory.This type of event doesn't seem to appear on this entire thread.

There is no France Category.
There is only a Europe category. You are not seeing duplicate posts, just the same posts coming up using different search perimeters.

All posts go to the main Europe board, however,when you start a new post you can select a country that it is related to (for example France). If you do this, the message still goes on the Europe board, but is &quot;tagged&quot; for searching purposes as being related to France. Some people do not do this, or forget to do this, and therefore their message is not &quot;tagged&quot; for a certain area.

So you have 2 options.
1. You can just go to &quot;Europe&quot; and scroll down through all the Europe postings until you find a message that interests you.
OR
2. You can search by clicking on France and it will bring up all messages in the Europe forum that have been &quot;tagged&quot; for France. However, you will miss the messages that people did not &quot;tag&quot;.

Bigal: Yes, you are confused. &quot;<i>on a couple of occasions where a posting about France on the Europe catagory was duplicated exactly in both date and time on the France catagory</i>&quot;

They are not duplicated at all. There is no &quot;France&quot; category. <b>ALL</b> threads are on the same forum - &quot;Europe&quot;. When you click &quot;France&quot;, the system searches through all of &quot;Europe&quot; to find those where the OP clicked France before they started their thread. Then it displays the threads it finds in the list at the left. Any other threads about France - and there are many - will not be on that list.

Bigal -

This forum has confused more than one person - you are certainly not the first!!

When you post a question, if you select a specific country using that nifty little scrolling list of countries, your post will be returned when someone else searches using the specific country - but it is also visible to all of us who just browse through all of the topics regardless of country. If you don't select a specific country, it is still visible to all of us, but won't be retrieved when someone selects by the specific country. Since there are probably a lot of people who only search by country - why scroll through questions about Ireland if you are going to Rome - it is best to use the country when starting a new post.

But for finding information on this board, it tends to work better to NOT use the specific country.

I have found that when I am looking specifically for something - say Festival de l'Imaginaire - I don't bother with the 'country' search option. And the reason that I don't use the 'country' search is because not everyone uses it when they start a new post. I simply use the SEARCH function by typing 'Festival de l'Imaginaire' in the 'Search this Forum' box, then clicking on the button marked SEARCH. That way, any post will be returned in the search regardless of whether the original poster used a specific country.

Once you get used to how this forum works, it is a treasure trove of information. I hope you do find out something about your festival!