[SpamCop-List] Re: LARTED?

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"Cat" <nobody at devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message 
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| Mike Easter wrote:
| > Fred K wrote:
|
| <snip>
|
| >>Ah but alas, the poor person wanted a simple definition of 
lart as it
| >>is used here.
|
| My point was that people should learn to look it up. I was 
always taught
| "If you don't know the answer, look it up" when I was a kid. It 
taught
| me how to research things and how to think for myself instead 
of having
| everyone hand me all the answers. Then if I still can't find 
the answer,
| I'll ask.

Reasonable, but(t) ... is that also how you learned to tie your 
shoes?  Were you just forced to go read about how to do it?  I 
agree that very often the answer is right there in front of us if 
we'll just look in the right cubby in front of us, but ... what's 
wrong with the courtesy of a simplified, short answer and instead 
of "go look it up", a comment on how/where to look for the info? 
Those two courtesies are lacking in many of these OT posts.  Even 
mine, right here!

|
| > Some people are into spoonfeeding the hapless or uninformed, 
while
| > others would rather show them the way to get information, 
including some
| > dirty work.
|
| Agreed. I think people get too lazy and don't want to do any 
work for
| themselves and instead expect other people to spoon feed them 
all the time.

Agreed, for "some people".  How did the OP get tossed into that 
category though?  If there's any validation of that sort of 
evidence, it was artfully neglected.  If you don't feel like 
giving a civil answer, why not just shut the hell up and leave it 
for someone with more than one brain cell?

|
| >>Following the kind brush-off by cat leads one on an
|
| Note to Frank:
| That's Cat with a capital C, and it wasn't a brush off. I 
showed him how
| to look up information on his own. Seriously, when the answers 
to things
| like that can be found through a simple Google search of the 
term,
| people shouldn't ask them here.

The following Google response is recent as of about 30 seconds 
ago:
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"Your search - "LARTED" -LARTed -larted - did not match any 
documents.

Suggestions:
  - Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
  - Try different keywords.
  - Try more general keywords.
  - Try fewer keywords.
Also, you can try Google Answers for expert help with your 
search."
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Gee, what'd I do wrong?  I used the Advanced Search and 
everything!  Why in hell do these guys think it's so obvious on 
this Google place?

If you answer that, be prepared to be ignored!  <g>

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