RE: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Drew Adams writes:

 > On the contrary.  The new phenomenon, if there really is
 > one, is a relative *lack* of effort spent researching and
 > filtering information.  It is so simple to just ask others.

It is new.  Before the internet, people relied on local expertise and
asking face to face, and if there was none, gave up.  StackOverflow
and friends are basically the inverse of spam: ask the universe at no
cost to yourself.

I agree with you that not catering to those folks is the right way to
go.  Among other things, in the rare case that they offer
contributions, they usually suck. ;-)  Just do what Emacs wants to do.