Re: Stop neurotic posting

I don't have time for speculative research and I'm not going to apologise for it. By answering a few queries of a technical nature, helpfully and constructively without recourse to rude TLA's and FL:A's (and not having to defend my modus operandi), I feel I earn the odd tasty morsel lobbed in my direction. On Wednesday 06 Aug 2003 7:27 pm, Jennifer Goodie wrote: > Not to beat a dead horse, but... > > From two separate responses: > > And as for Google, I don't feel like I have time to wade through pages > > and pages of irrelevant links until I find what I'm looking for when I > > have a better resource right here. > > > > > > > > I've actually learned quite a few useful things from questions in > > the past > > couple of weeks since I joined this list that have obviously reappeared > > several times. Now, I could spend hours trawling the archives to see if > > there's anything of interest, but I don't really have the time - > > and in any > > event they're often things I wouldn't have thought about looking > > up anyway. > > I love how the argument for not doing research is not having the time/not > wanting to waste time. That is just lazy and selfish. Since you don't > want to waste your time looking, it is perfectly acceptable for everyone > else to waste time reading a question that's been posted 80 times in the > last month, and possibly waste more time typing up the same answer that has > probably been posted 80+ times. How is your time more important or > valuable than everyone else's? > > This is not a personal attack on the two posters quoted, just my feelings > on that general attitude.