internet - Can you tell me what you know about....

Schools and universities are in full swing, so the number of questions arriving in my mailbox is overwhelming. "What is the influence of the state on personal communication in China?" "What are the recent developments in the Sino-Japanese relationship?" Just two questions I was politely asked to answer in the past 24 hours.
Always happy to help somebody out with their home work or thesis, but I have stopped writing them myselves. So I offer them my phone number of skype address and offer to chatter around for an hour or so. Saves me in the end much more time than writing it up myself.