>>I'm really tired of the very basic knitting questions I get off my 
website--it's a daily thing now to get one or two emails that could be 
answered by looking in ANY knitting book.<<

It's the nature of the beast. If there's a site devoted to a craft, newbies are 
going to find it. Once they find it, since it's a topic that interests them, 
they think that it's ok to ask basic questions. Otherwise, why would the site 
exist? (Their question, not mine.) 

OTOH, it's difficult to find fault with the ones who have been told to 'use the 
internet' to find the answer to their question. When they find the information, 
and ask a question, inevitably it's the one question that gets asked 100 times 
a month. If they'd done a little archive reading, they'd find the answer to 
their question. But if they were internet savvy, they'd know to do that 
already. 

So <peering over your shoulder> what will you do about it? Once you find an 
answer, don't forget to post it. There are hundreds of other people who would 
like to stop fielding the basic questions.
wrnk
d2




This is only my opinion, but I believe the internet is helping to raise a 
generation of people who are either ignorant when it comes to finding something 
in a library or book store; or who are too lazy to make the effort to find the 
information themselves. 

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