Usenet is specifically for this purpose, the sharing of
information.
Sharing information is a possible use of usenet newsgroups. Discussion and
debate is another. Anouncements a next. Asking questions and answering them yet
another. And more probably.
The archieves of this group and other web authoring groups are vast and filled
with very valuable information. You say you waded through the post to a while
back. You must have noticed how many questions get repeated over and over again
Of the top of my head:
'good book'
'center a div'
'table vs. css' aka layers (yak)
'open a new window'
'print css'
'mp3' or other objects
'table cell dimensions'
'&' or < et cetera
'Why doesn't this validate?'
'urgent question from a noob' and all variations on that theme
'Why doesn't FF display proparly? IE does !!!'
All questions to which a good answer is available from these groups if only the
one looking for the answer would at least give it one try at Google.groups
archive. All those answers, acumulated over years and years of valuable
discussion, available to all, and you think this group doesn't share knowlegde?
But no, many come in for a hit-and-run, a
quick-and-I-don't-give-a-damn-if-it's-dirty-if-only-it-works-in-IE6-because-99%-of-my-visitors-use-IE6
question&solution routine with a and-I-want-it-now!! attitude. How does this
contribute to the grand goal of sharing knowlegde? Hmmm?
Mind you: Many but _not all_. There are those that have a problem, have studied
some on a possible solution, but just got stuck somehow. They lurked here for a
bit probably, learned a lot already by doing so, about techniques and group
communication both.
Just don't get the full concept for what they try with their pages yet. Doesn't
matter, takes time, years possibly, to really master the lot (and then find out
all has changed). Those start _participating_. Participation is a key word here.
Nobody minds someone not knowing something.
I'm all for sharing knowledge. Where's your contribution, so highly valued by
yourself?
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