On 2010-09-21, geremy condra <debat...@gmail.com> wrote: > I use them when I want to conceal the target of the link. Usually here > that just means its a letmegooglethatforyou.com link, which I find > more amusing than is probably healthy.
I thought the idea was funny at first. Then I posted a question on an IRC channel. I had done a ton of searching already, and I started by explaining the top three near-solutions I'd found and why each of them wasn't actually a solution to my problem. And someone handed me a URL... which was to lmgtfy on the first search terms I tried. And this caused me to realize just how amazingly insulting that can be when done to someone who *did* already do the research. 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. -s -- Copyright 2010, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nos...@seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated! I am not speaking for my employer, although they do rent some of my opinions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list