I do not disagree with the initial post. Some people really do not have access to 'in person' help.

But I have seen tons of these: "I want to start flying model planes and there's NOBODY around here who flies RC, so what do I do first?"

I find the zip code for their town and look at the AMA site, and there is a 100+ member club in the town. I think it would be totally wrong to make much of a reply without at least mentioning to the person that he is not as isolated as he thinks he is.

From a one sentence post, we get virtually no info. I guess the first reply could be a list of probing questions to find out:
> Budget
> Transportation status
> etc