Musashi wrote:
> "J. J. Farrell" wrote in message
> news:5c04bc56.0408031354.5165977b@posting.google.com...
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>>"Musashi" wrote in message
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> news:...
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>>>As a "regular" myself in some other newsgroups for years, I
>>>discovered that I enjoyed giving answers, maybe to be helpful,
>>>maybe to show off my own knowledge, whatever. Either way it
>>>was an enjoyable and entertaining activity for me.
>>>
>>>But when I reached the point of giving a lecture about doing
>>>a google search when giving an answer to some low-level
>>>question, in other words basically telling the poster that
>>>he was an idiot for asking and he should go look it up
>>>himself, I realized that I was spending waaaay too much time
>>>in usenet and I really needed a break.
>>
>>You realized incorrectly. It is much more valuable and useful
>>to tell someone how to find an answer for himself, or to
>>encourage him to actually do so if he already knows how, than
>>it is to give him the answer.
>>
>>As some bright spark once said "give a man a fish and you feed
>>him for a day; teach him how to fish and you feed him for a
>>lifetime".
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>
> Teaching a man how to catch is own fish is really pointless when dealing
> with
> a man who already knows damn well how to catch his own fish but has also
> learned to get others to fish for him. :P
>
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