notbob wrote:

> On 2008-04-26, blake murphy > wrote:
>
>> to be fair, blinky, your site doesn't really talk about passing through
>> benign gmailers or googlegroupers (and there are fairly many of them).
>> i think this is what brian is talking about.
>
> Geeks refer to this as "handholding". It's the same with cooking. A
> recipe does not include a step-by-step on how to mince an onion or hold a
> measuring cup while measuring. Certain skills are assumed. Same with
> computers. If Blinky chose to offer this level of instruction, he would.
> He doesn't. So, it's the other person's responsibility of obtain the
> knowledge/skills on his own. That, or eat at a restaurant/buy a Mac.

Different topic -- he's not talking about the level of my instruction
there (although that has been discussed elsewhere); he's talking about me
not also giving instructions for whitelisting certain Gropers. I don't do
the latter, because it's not something I support and recommend.

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