Hello The_curious_one

There have been discussions on this subject before.

The problem is not confined to the person who asks the most questions: "Guest".

There are evidently people who register at CR4, and don't bother to put their location.

Some of those Members do ask rather odd questions, or just make a half statement, to no advantage.

In some Countries, it may not be prudent to advertise one's location, for political or other reasons.

I'll bet that your real name is not "Johnny Canuck", either.

Kind Regards....

I wasn't so much concerned about location as I was about failure to register period.

I believe that there was a comic book hero Johnny Canuck or Captain Canuck. I have often seen Johnny Canuck used as a generic name for a generic Canadian.

This one is a cracker...
It took all my catly will power not to write a scathing reply.

Del

I wonder if there are places in the world where Google is blocked out. I've heard that if your in China, and Google "Tibet", nothing happens. We do seem to get a lot of questions from India. I wonder if there are places where CR4 is off limits. I do agree that people should register here. It's very easy, takes less that a minute, and cost's nothing. BUT WAIT! If you register now, we'll double you order! Call within the next 20 minutes.....

The problem with registering is that if you continuously ask simple innane questions (like you are trying to get the solutions to a frosh intro CE course), people begin to recognize the registrant and stop answering his homework problems. Now he has to learn this stuff, and the only real reason he is in college is to get an engineering degree to add an air of validity to his statements when making sales or corporate management decisions. However, he perceives the knowledge as useless in his future career, except to sound like he is competant to the technical staff.

Well either your info was incorrect, or it has changed. "Tibet" found about ... well, a google of hits. Google isn't too bad these days, but Wikipedia is rarely available. Although SSSSLLLLOOOOWWW, CR4 is available here so far. I think this year, with the 2008 Olympics, security will be even tighter, so who knows. We live with what we got .

Well... we do know that CR4 is open in China, considering that we have several Chinese contributors, but I just happened to think... do we have any Russians? I am not aware of any.

Bill

I think sometimes you think it will be a one time request and you don't want to register and have to remember one more password. Once I figure out the perfect password to use for all occassions, I will contain multitudes.

"Guest" can often be very annoying because of the anonymity. You never know if it is the same person or not. Perhaps a limit can be put on a "Guest" who identifies self to CR4 but does not want a formal name or location posted or to join the group as a regular member.

Or more commonly it could be the abbreviation for Louisiana.

Quite.

Good Answer

I think that what you think is not the right thing, so therefore I am right and you are wrong, I think