If we want people to just use the "Search" feature, this forum should be reduced to just consist of a page of FAQs so as not to bother anyone.
Instead, it is a discussion forum where people want to discuss photography. I say "Ask away!"
Yeahbut...if everyone clutters up with the same old questions over and over, and our dear POTN servers fill up as a result and the guy who runs POTN can no longer afford to pay for server space, and you now have to start to pay a fee to use POTN...will you still feel the same way?
It reminds me of my daughter who feels it is her manifest destiny to drive somewhere separately rather than riding with us, wasting more gas, and depleting our non-renewable petroleum resources, yet at the same time harping about the waste of paper (which comes from a renewable resource!)

