I like having info.
More importantly, I like having reliable info. A lot of people who "know how" share their knowledge and sometimes two peoples "knowledge" conflicts. ie, "This is the best way to make an exp weapon"

Its really kind of annoying relying on someone making a char and giving it only 12 wield then 13 wield to see if he can hold an icy. And then to expect this knowledge to be passed down verbally from one generation to another, just sounds uncivilized \:\)

Compromise: allow all info alerts to be terned off through setenv ALERTS or whatever, but do make the alerts possible.