Maybe I'm dense…no, no "maybe." I am dense. But that's not the reason I don't understand something rather basic about Internet Behavior. The other day on a public discussion board, my name came up. Someone forwarded me a message posted there where a person wrote, "I'd ask Mark Evanier but I don't know his e-mail address."
How can someone not find my e-mail address? Even if it didn't dawn on them to try www.evanier.com (which forwards to this site, which has an e-mail link on every page), we have these things on the Internet called Search Engines. I just went to ten of them, typed in "Evanier" and every one linked me to this site in under five seconds and three of them yielded my e-mail address instantly. In the time it took that person to type that he didn't know my e-mail address, he could have found my e-mail address six times.
It's not just info about me. All the time on public boards and newsgroups, I see questions that could be answered in under 30 seconds with a quick trip to www.google.com or any of several other popular Search Engines. The Internet is a terrific resource for looking up info. I continue to be amazed at what I can find on-line and often with very little burrowing. But you do have to look, at least a little. It's not enough to just post questions and hope someone will tell you the answers.