Seebs <usenet-nos...@seebs.net> writes: > And this caused me to realize just how amazingly insulting that can be when > done to someone who *did* already do the research.
Exactly. I hate lmgtfy links hidden in a tiny url. It's not only insulting to the OP but also to people who try to learn something and end up on a google search page they could've come up with themselves. > While certainly there's plenty of people who didn't do their own searching, > there's also a fair number who are asking a question because they DID try > searching and there was some problem with one or more of the answers. Yup, exactly. Or people who did a lot of searching but somehow were not able to compile a good query. -- John Bokma j3b Blog: http://johnbokma.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/j.j.j.bokma Freelance Perl & Python Development: http://castleamber.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
