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B&H, Why All The SPAM???
On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:18:16 GMT, Rick Sciacca
wrote: On 12/8/06 11:22 AM, "Paul Allen" wrote: If you give a man a fish he eats for a day. But if you teach a man to fish... A better answer to Rick's question is http://www.google.com Paul Allen Like I haven't heard about Goggle, dumbass. Technically there was no better answer. He answered my question directly instead of giving me a search engine, which completely failed to answer the question. I guess by your reasoning, no one should EVER post a question here, as they can just search Google for it? -- Rick How did Google fail to answer the question? I Googled "B&H" and got the same link ASAAR offered, top of the list. -- Bill Funk replace "g" with "a" |
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B&H, Why All The SPAM???
On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:30:33 -0700, Bill Funk wrote:
I Googled "B&H" and B&H Photo Video was the first on the list. Google offered the same clue you did. A click on your link, and the link Google provided, would go to the same place. Right, I wasn't disputing that. But it takes me no longer to type B&H's URL than it would to make a slightly insulting reference to google, which at best will provide the same information indirectly, with always the possibility that it won't. I also added the conditions where referencing google would be appropriate. Why go out of your way to risk appearing as a jerk ("I'm not going to tell you. Look it up yourself") when it's no more trouble to be helpful? As I indicated, there's a time and place for suggesting google, such as when someone's continual RFIs become excessive. |
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B&H, Why All The SPAM???
dwight wrote:
I have one, and, yes, it certainly generates a fair share of the spam I receive. That's why I had to invoke privacy in the WHOIS data and my email address appears only as a graphic on the website. It is still in the source code, but at least one level of harvesting has been cut off... Pretty much, that's what they're looking at, anyway. http://javascript.internet.com/page-...ermeasure.html Javascript, though... |
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B&H, Why All The SPAM???
On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:54:20 -0500, ASAAR wrote:
On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:30:33 -0700, Bill Funk wrote: I Googled "B&H" and B&H Photo Video was the first on the list. Google offered the same clue you did. A click on your link, and the link Google provided, would go to the same place. Right, I wasn't disputing that. But it takes me no longer to type B&H's URL than it would to make a slightly insulting reference to google, which at best will provide the same information indirectly, with always the possibility that it won't. I also added the conditions where referencing google would be appropriate. Why go out of your way to risk appearing as a jerk ("I'm not going to tell you. Look it up yourself") when it's no more trouble to be helpful? As I indicated, there's a time and place for suggesting google, such as when someone's continual RFIs become excessive. Different strokes for different folks. I'd rather teach someone to do it themselves (especially when it's so easy) than to hand them one answer several times (your RFI referrence). I do see a lot of questions asked here that could be not only answered more easily by using Google, but would be answered in far more depth (and with far fewer just plain wrong answers). Of course, I get a lot of chuckles with the wrong answers, too (even mine, sometimes). -- Bill Funk replace "g" with "a" |
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B&H, Why All The SPAM???
On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:18:16 GMT
Rick Sciacca wrote: On 12/8/06 11:22 AM, "Paul Allen" wrote: If you give a man a fish he eats for a day. But if you teach a man to fish... A better answer to Rick's question is http://www.google.com Paul Allen Like I haven't heard about Goggle, dumbass. Well! We're learning more and more about you, aren't we? Are you sure you're presenting the image you want us to see? Technically there was no better answer. He answered my question directly instead of giving me a search engine, which completely failed to answer the question. At the surface, your query meant simply that you didn't know about B&H Photo. At a deeper level, it suggested that you didn't know how to use Google. Would you rather be given a fish or or the knowledge of how to fish? Which gift is more helpful? I guess by your reasoning, no one should EVER post a question here, as they can just search Google for it? It's generally wise to reflect for a few minutes before replying to a perceived slight. Adrenaline can make you say silly things. Paul Allen |
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B&H, Why All The SPAM???
Fishface ? wrote:
dwight wrote: I have one, and, yes, it certainly generates a fair share of the spam I receive. That's why I had to invoke privacy in the WHOIS data and my email address appears only as a graphic on the website. It is still in the source code, but at least one level of harvesting has been cut off... Pretty much, that's what they're looking at, anyway. http://javascript.internet.com/page-...ermeasure.html Javascript, though... It is a well-known trick which has been in use for some time. Seems to work if you scatter the parts of the e-mail addy around the web page. -- --- Paul J. Gans |
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