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From: "Keith" <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Church Records and ROSSER and Thanks from SMITH
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:50:19 +1300
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From: "John Brown" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Lon] Church Records and ROSSER and Thanks from SMITH
> Of course it is to assist, that is self-evident - but helping does not
> mean spoon-feeding. I am certainly not a 'know-all' as anyone who has
> been on this List for any length of time will have realised from my
> assorted and regular mistakes, but I do believe in people making some
> basic attempts to find out things for themselves, hence 'Helpful
> Advice'.
Telling others where to find information is not spoon feeding, and spending
as few extra seconds putting in full names or URLs is a service.
Finding the information they want to extract could be considered to be spoon
feeding.
> You made semi-sarcastic comments about searching on Google in an attempt
> to appear clever. My reply to your post pointed out that, with a bit of
> imagination, it is quite easy to find the correct item via Google. It is
> quite ridiculous to consider that 'patronising'.
Not so. I pointed out the problem of using abbreviations which might be
clear in the minds of some, but not all.
Keith Wellington, NZ
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